CUHKSZ Library Topic Guide
How to survive your PhD
MOOC:
How to Survive Your PhD-edx
Learn evidence-based strategies for emotional resilience and supervision that will help you finish your PhD or research degree.
Academic papers：
Mewburn, I. (2011).Troubling talk: assembling the PhD candidate.Studies in Continuing Education, Volume 33(3), 321–332.
Grant, B. 2003.Mapping the pleasures and risks of supervision.Discourse24(2). 175–90
Boud, D., & Costley, C. (2007).From project supervision to advising: New conceptions of the practice.Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Volme 44(2). 119-130. (this link goes to researchgate. You will need to request the text from the author)
Johnson, L., Lee, A., & Green, B. (2000).The PhD and the autonomous self: gender, rationality and postgraduate pedagogy.Studies in Higher Education, Volume 25(2), 135-147.
Williams, Carolyn, and Alison Lee."Forged in fire: narratives of trauma in PhD supervison pedagogy."Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, Volume32(1)
Clance, P.R. & Imes, S. A (1978) The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic invention.Psychotherapy, Theory, Research and Practice, 15, 241 - 247
Cowman, S. E & Ferrari, J.R. (2002) “Am I for Real?” Predicting imposter tendencies from self-handicapping and affective components,Social behaviour and personality, 30, 2, 119 - 126.
Topping, M.E. & Kimmel, E.B. (1985). The imposter phenomenon: feeling phony,Academic psychology bulletin, 7, 213 - 226.
Eastwood, J., Frischen, A., Fenske, M, and D. Smilek (2012)The unengaged mind: defining boredom in terms of attention, Perspectives on psychological science, Vol 7(5) pg 482 – 495
Books:
Authoring aPhD: how to plan, draft, write, and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation
Author:Patrick. Dunleavy
Description: Authoring a Ph.D. Thesis involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading text, and finishing it speedily and to a good standard. It also involves being examined and getting work published. This book provides a huge range of ideas and suggestions to help Ph.D. candidates cope with both the intellectual issues involved and the practical difficulties of organizing their work effectively.
CUHKSZ Library Catalogue: LB/2369/D86/2003
Design and Analysis: aresearcher'shandbook
Author:Geoffrey. Keppel, Thomas D. Wickens
Description:This book offer a readily accessible introduction to the designed experiment in research and the statistical analysis of the data from such experiments. Unique because it emphasizes the use of analytical procedures, this book is appropriate for all as it requires knowledge of only the most fundamental mathematical skills and little or no formal statistical background. Topics include: single- and two-factor designs with independent groups of subjects; corresponding designs with multiple observations; analysis of designs with unequal sample sizes; analysis of covariance; designs with three factors, including all combinations of between-subjects and within-subject factors; random factors and statistical generalization; and nested factors.
CUHKSZ Library Catalogue:HA/29/K47/2004
Links:
How to set appropriate boundaries in the workplace
Julie Parkinson, Director, Institute of Executive Coaching
Some may find the concept of workplace boundaries a challenging notion given a boundary can’t be seen, but their importance shouldn’t be underestimated. In fact, understanding and adhering to boundaries will help you thrive at work.
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Martin A. Schwartz
How to get a PhD and save the world
ChrissBlattman, Associate Professor of Political Science & International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Advice on around the early stages of the PhD including issues around taking risks.
Doing less risky research is more risky for your career
Doing less risky research is more risky for your career
Philip Guo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Rochester
Blog on the balance of taking risks in research against the value of its outcomes.