{"id":379,"date":"2020-11-02T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/?p=379"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:27:46","slug":"unfolding-research-phd-problem-solving-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/doctoralstudies\/2020\/11\/02\/unfolding-research-phd-problem-solving-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfolding Research – PhD Problem Solving Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post by King’s PGR students Onna Malou van den Broek and Fabian Bohnenberger.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fed up with your research? Losing focus? Hitting roadblocks?<\/p>\n

Doing a PhD is a learning experience. But it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel when you face everyday research challenges. Why not follow the examples of experienced researchers?<\/p>\n

The Project: <\/em>Unfolding Research<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

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Over the past two years, we tried to \u201cunfold\u201d the research process. More precisely, the many challenges that researchers at all career stages and across disciplines face in their daily work. As such, we have collected strategies that established researchers rely on in their daily work and tested them with PhD students. This set of easily accessible problem-solving strategies is tailored to the needs of PhD students and early-career researchers. Our aim is to share these proven and reliable working habits<\/a> with new generations of scholars across universities and disciplines.<\/p>\n

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The Categories<\/em><\/p>\n

In total, we collected over 80 problem-solving strategies, divided into four main categories: wellbeing, progress, flow and connection:<\/p>\n