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Category: doctoral experience

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 pat thomson

doctoral experiences – there are literatures

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 pat thomson

my supervisor expects me to keep revising – why?

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 pat thomson

when you’re older than your professors

May 22, 2017May 21, 2017 pat thomson

‘the PhD experience’

December 7, 2016December 8, 2016 pat thomson

letter to an unknown doctoral researcher

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015 pat thomson

why do doctoral researchers blog?

June 6, 2013June 7, 2013 pat thomson

the experience of doctoral researching/writing – five good books

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