As someone who recently completed his PhD, I was surprised at how many boxes I checked on your list and I couldn't agree more with the great points you raised Andy! That ability to Zoom out of it and see it for what it really is helped me a lot. I gamified it in my own head and made sure I acquire the needed XP to cross the finish line. It can be easy to get stuck in thinking that your thesis/work should be the Holy Grail 😅
That’s why I like your Channel Andy.Every now and then you drop some golden advice !After 5 years trying to ´please ´ my supervisor,I decided to go rogue and just do what I want .I ´ m working on 3 different papers now and hopefully I can meet my requirements within 4 months and leave this hell hole .Hood luck to the new PhD students on this page !
Andy, I’ve been watching your videos for a long time, and they’re absolutely wonderful! I’ll be starting my PhD in November, and I’m sure some others will be starting around the same time. It would be great to see a video from you covering all the do’s and don’ts for those of us in the early stages of PhD studies. I'm a bit stressed!
I would say that this is pretty discipline specific from my experience. Understanding your discipline and how it works is important. From my experience in more social science/design, other things like getting to know other staff, then getting teaching work, being involved in university things like being on committees, 3MT, etc - those are also really valuable, as they can show you are a team player, help build networks for future grant partners and build skills around working collaboratively and being able to do the other non research parts of being an academic. As someone else commented, some disciplines are also more publication quantity focused whereas others are more interested in quality or the potential of your research area and its potential alignment for grants etc.
Andy, PhD 1994, my SV so excited with the hypothesis that he asked to draw the graph as data was generated. As soon as the graph emerged we screamed with excitement - in situ!
I'm not a Phd. I'm a researcher in the industry, and all these tips have been helping me out a lot. I wasn't aware that I was doing it. I was just trying to survive the year end reviews haha
Thank you so much Sir for this wonderful video. I am an ardent follower of your videos. Unfortunately, I have just crossed one year of my PhD and still continuing my coursework as our PhD regulation demands learning subjects not of our field which cannot be avoided. I have generated lots of data but right now after discussing with my guide but the entire work needs to be repeated again alongside my coursework. Can you guide me how to recourse my direction? Moreover, publishing papers has now become extremely hard. So, how to address these issues and how to overcome this situation?
I want to squeeze everything and handle quickly but my supervisor won’t let me in. Always waiting their response confirmation their time to talk and then weeks but no progress. Maybe I should supervise myself on my own.
I think it depends how you define "top phd students". In my opionion a good phd student is someone who wants to extend knowledge and only publishes papers if they have something meaningful to report. But you point out that a top phd student is someone who focuses on publishing. And you are right: a top scientist has to publish a lot to survive the academic game. But in my opionin this is a poor scientist.
Depends who counts as "top" though... Some these points could be quite circular. I like parts of this video but others just sound like "depsite everyone complaining about the flaws of academia, submit to them anyway". Not the best message if we want to improve the way things are done though practice.
@MrLethalShots Yep, those two mostly don't have data or experiments. But I have a friend who applied probability theory (a subfields of maths) to biology, and he had small stuff as experiments. But it's clearly not the majority of maths PhD, even applied maths PhD. There is also computer science (or at least many subfields of computer science) which don't use data, laboratory, or experiments
Re: Top people playing hard. I used to be part of the CEO's team of a high tech. After a while I realised that almost all of my colleagues, in addition to being very capable at work, also took part in extreme sports.
As someone who recently completed his PhD, I was surprised at how many boxes I checked on your list and I couldn't agree more with the great points you raised Andy! That ability to Zoom out of it and see it for what it really is helped me a lot. I gamified it in my own head and made sure I acquire the needed XP to cross the finish line. It can be easy to get stuck in thinking that your thesis/work should be the Holy Grail 😅
That’s why I like your Channel Andy.Every now and then you drop some golden advice !After 5 years trying to ´please ´ my supervisor,I decided to go rogue and just do what I want .I ´ m working on 3 different papers now and hopefully I can meet my requirements within 4 months and leave this hell hole .Hood luck to the new PhD students on this page !
Andy, I’ve been watching your videos for a long time, and they’re absolutely wonderful! I’ll be starting my PhD in November, and I’m sure some others will be starting around the same time. It would be great to see a video from you covering all the do’s and don’ts for those of us in the early stages of PhD studies. I'm a bit stressed!
Good stuff, I start my PhD in biology in December and I got my studentship offer today so will be binging this content
Great! What is your field?
Congratulations I got my studentship yesterday too ❤ wish you luck i am sp nervous
@@takiyaazrin7562 developing a biocontrol to protect crops against a soil borne pathogen, should be good
@@farzadjahanfard well done too!
@@takiyaazrin7562 i picks cotton lol
I would say that this is pretty discipline specific from my experience. Understanding your discipline and how it works is important. From my experience in more social science/design, other things like getting to know other staff, then getting teaching work, being involved in university things like being on committees, 3MT, etc - those are also really valuable, as they can show you are a team player, help build networks for future grant partners and build skills around working collaboratively and being able to do the other non research parts of being an academic. As someone else commented, some disciplines are also more publication quantity focused whereas others are more interested in quality or the potential of your research area and its potential alignment for grants etc.
Hope to do a PhD someday and I am very grateful for your videos. They just keep the thought of PhD burning in me❤. Thank you Doc.
Andy could you please make a video on how make notes and make sense of data we have and how tidy and categorise them.
Starting my PhD in a couple of months, please keep posting such useful videos ❤
Just got my phd studentship yesterday and my guy uploaded this love you man ❤
Andy, PhD 1994, my SV so excited with the hypothesis that he asked to draw the graph as data was generated. As soon as the graph emerged we screamed with excitement - in situ!
Cheers Andy, hopefully going to start a phd in human factors on AI agents in healthcare next year. Wish me luck!
Thanks. Love how u got straight into the point
Thank you very much for your content! It’s super helpful 😊 do you have any video or planning to do a video about Elicit
Andy - thank you SO MUCH for your hard work helping us do well with our PhDs. Watching your channel has given me SO MANY golden nuggets.
Thanks for the tips!
You are a saviour for the PhD students ❤ thank you ❤
Andy, this is amazing advice! Thank you so much!❤
I'm not a Phd. I'm a researcher in the industry, and all these tips have been helping me out a lot. I wasn't aware that I was doing it. I was just trying to survive the year end reviews haha
Thank you so much Sir for this wonderful video. I am an ardent follower of your videos. Unfortunately, I have just crossed one year of my PhD and still continuing my coursework as our PhD regulation demands learning subjects not of our field which cannot be avoided. I have generated lots of data but right now after discussing with my guide but the entire work needs to be repeated again alongside my coursework. Can you guide me how to recourse my direction? Moreover, publishing papers has now become extremely hard. So, how to address these issues and how to overcome this situation?
I want to squeeze everything and handle quickly but my supervisor won’t let me in. Always waiting their response confirmation their time to talk and then weeks but no progress. Maybe I should supervise myself on my own.
I think it depends how you define "top phd students". In my opionion a good phd student is someone who wants to extend knowledge and only publishes papers if they have something meaningful to report. But you point out that a top phd student is someone who focuses on publishing. And you are right: a top scientist has to publish a lot to survive the academic game. But in my opionin this is a poor scientist.
Great advice
Depends who counts as "top" though... Some these points could be quite circular. I like parts of this video but others just sound like "depsite everyone complaining about the flaws of academia, submit to them anyway". Not the best message if we want to improve the way things are done though practice.
Is it possible for the PhD students avoiding submitting to them w/o help from their supervisors?
watching this instead of preparing for PhD defence next week (not elite lol)
All the best next week
There is no data or experiment at all in my phd field
yeah what do you do for something like theoretical physics or mathematics?
@MrLethalShots Yep, those two mostly don't have data or experiments. But I have a friend who applied probability theory (a subfields of maths) to biology, and he had small stuff as experiments. But it's clearly not the majority of maths PhD, even applied maths PhD. There is also computer science (or at least many subfields of computer science) which don't use data, laboratory, or experiments
I play hard….. perhaps it‘s time to apply for my PhD…😂
Re: Top people playing hard. I used to be part of the CEO's team of a high tech. After a while I realised that almost all of my colleagues, in addition to being very capable at work, also took part in extreme sports.
prodcution oriented research
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