| Anyone done a PhD? 23:06 - Oct 2 with 4243 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Just started one, and feeling a little anxious. If you've any tips on time management in particular let me know.
I'll be doing it part-time over six years, whilst working full time, so time management will be key. |  |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:37 - Oct 3 with 854 views | BlueNomad |
This forum is absolutely loaded with intellectual giants!
Well done all. I stopped at contemplating a Masters! |  | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:40 - Oct 3 with 848 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:33 - Oct 3 by ThisIsMyUsername |
I'm sure the answer to this question is 'very', but exactly how more strenuous and difficult, and in what respects, is a PhD compared to the content and research project in a Masters? In my case it's just a 12 month Masters. Is it a case of the research project just simply takes a lot longer to do in a PhD?
Does it follow the same type of format? As in you first do a literature review and then identify an area for research that you then complete etc etc. [Post edited 3 Oct 2023 11:34]
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Yeah, can be a similar format just a lot larger (I think mine was about 80,000 words but they vary according to subject and trends over time). A higher level/ more rigour is expected as well, but at the end of the day it's the sheer volume that can grind you down. I spent 2.5 years collecting and analysing data, including about 6 month of fieldwork and the rest lab time and analysis/interpretation, etc. About 1 year full time writing it all up. You get into a bit of a groove writing up, but it can be relentless and repetitive. |  |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:42 - Oct 3 with 842 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:37 - Oct 3 by BlueNomad |
This forum is absolutely loaded with intellectual giants!
Well done all. I stopped at contemplating a Masters! |
Anyone who chooses to follow the Towen is an intellectual giant! | |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:56 - Oct 3 with 818 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:37 - Oct 3 by BlueNomad |
This forum is absolutely loaded with intellectual giants!
Well done all. I stopped at contemplating a Masters! |
To be fair after I did my first degree I never thought I'd do the Masters, but it just felt like a natural progression, four years after completing my BA.
With the PhD, it feels kind of the same, in a way, but this one really feels like I'm doing something for me, for the first time in my career. | |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:01 - Oct 3 with 806 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:40 - Oct 3 by Swansea_Blue |
Yeah, can be a similar format just a lot larger (I think mine was about 80,000 words but they vary according to subject and trends over time). A higher level/ more rigour is expected as well, but at the end of the day it's the sheer volume that can grind you down. I spent 2.5 years collecting and analysing data, including about 6 month of fieldwork and the rest lab time and analysis/interpretation, etc. About 1 year full time writing it all up. You get into a bit of a groove writing up, but it can be relentless and repetitive. |
80,000 words! Wow.
Sounds like an intense process. |  |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:03 - Oct 3 with 805 views | Herbivore |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:40 - Oct 3 by Swansea_Blue |
Yeah, can be a similar format just a lot larger (I think mine was about 80,000 words but they vary according to subject and trends over time). A higher level/ more rigour is expected as well, but at the end of the day it's the sheer volume that can grind you down. I spent 2.5 years collecting and analysing data, including about 6 month of fieldwork and the rest lab time and analysis/interpretation, etc. About 1 year full time writing it all up. You get into a bit of a groove writing up, but it can be relentless and repetitive. |
Mine was 100,000, and I dread to think how much more writing I did as part of the process. |  |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:16 - Oct 3 with 799 views | Cotty |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:03 - Oct 3 by Herbivore |
Mine was 100,000, and I dread to think how much more writing I did as part of the process. |
I cut a third of my thesis about 2 months before submitting (because the project went down a dead end) |  | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 14:27 - Oct 3 with 753 views | Geomorph |
Good luck with the PhD. I did mine in the late 90s graduating in 2001. Mine was field (mostly) based in Physical Geography, so I guess a lot revolved around my summer field seasons in Scotland and France. Otherwise, my time management was absolutely atrocious, especially during the writing phase. One of my supervisors advised me to treat it as a 9 to 5 job. I didn't, but I think that would be the better way of doing it, especially now that more and more emphasis is put on the research methods/techniques side of things. Otherwise, a key thing is just to keep motivated, get involved in teaching/tutoring etc.
Hope it all goes well G |  | | |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 14:31 - Oct 3 with 735 views | Geomorph |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 11:33 - Oct 3 by ThisIsMyUsername |
I'm sure the answer to this question is 'very', but exactly how more strenuous and difficult, and in what respects, is a PhD compared to the content and research project in a Masters? In my case it's just a 12 month Masters. Is it a case of the research project just simply takes a lot longer to do in a PhD?
Does it follow the same type of format? As in you first do a literature review and then identify an area for research that you then complete etc etc. [Post edited 3 Oct 2023 11:34]
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I found doing a masters infinitely more stressful and intense than the PhD... ps: I was going to do a part time PhD but the supervisors advised/encouraged me to ditch the job and focus on the research... that has turned out be be a wonderful life decision. | | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 14:34 - Oct 3 with 731 views | Geomorph |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:16 - Oct 3 by Cotty |
I cut a third of my thesis about 2 months before submitting (because the project went down a dead end) |
I did a very similar thing... was working on twin sites but completely ditched one of those from the write up to simplify the thesis...(although did publish it eventually) | | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 14:37 - Oct 3 with 726 views | Herbivore |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:16 - Oct 3 by Cotty |
I cut a third of my thesis about 2 months before submitting (because the project went down a dead end) |
Yeah, the amount you end up having to cut out or hive off from a piece of work that's roughly the length of two books is quite something. | |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 15:01 - Oct 3 with 711 views | Geomorph |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 10:47 - Oct 3 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Work reasons. I'm, a lecturer at The Uni of Gloucestershire and am acutely aware that institutions are more focused on staff having PhDs now.
Just feathering my nest incase I need to move on. |
just seen this!! ignore my thing about teaching lol | | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 15:41 - Oct 3 with 684 views | Reus30 |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:03 - Oct 3 by Herbivore |
Mine was 100,000, and I dread to think how much more writing I did as part of the process. |
100,000 words!!!!!!
My brain hurts from just reading this thread but respect to everyone bettering and pushing themselves.
I can never pick up a textbook again or I will just wilt into the ground. |  | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 15:45 - Oct 3 with 682 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 12:01 - Oct 3 by ThisIsMyUsername |
80,000 words! Wow.
Sounds like an intense process. |
As Geomorph said, a Masters can be much more stressful and intense process as there's not time to waste and things are thrown at you thick and fast. The PhD is more a long slog. One's a sprint triathlon, the other like walking the Pennine Way carrying a rucsac full of self doubt! | |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 16:33 - Oct 3 with 644 views | stringy |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 14:37 - Oct 3 by Herbivore |
Yeah, the amount you end up having to cut out or hive off from a piece of work that's roughly the length of two books is quite something. |
I had a section of 25,000 words that would swoop majestically between chapters two and seven as I struggled with the structure; ugh |  | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 16:59 - Oct 3 with 616 views | JohnTy |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 10:24 - Oct 3 by Cheltenham_Blue |
It's a research by practice PhD.
Topic is around the notion of 'British Identity' specifically what causes the British in particular to constantly look backwards and yearn for a bygone age, something that doesn't really happen in the rest of Europe.
The research topic will be produced as a thesis and 3x 45 minute documentary films, which examine a different aspect of looking backwards. Firstly, Tribute Acts, why people perform them, why people watch them, and the memories of those acts when they were performing live.
Second film will be on re-enactors that reenact battles and recreate war scenes, with very much the same direction as the first. (Why Why Why)
The final film will examine Brexit, and the causes of, based in the false narrative given at the time by many that life was better before.
As brief a synopsis as I can give you. |
If you are thinking about your own marketability then articles in academic journals are very important, perhaps more so than a PhD. |  | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 18:13 - Oct 3 with 591 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 16:59 - Oct 3 by JohnTy |
If you are thinking about your own marketability then articles in academic journals are very important, perhaps more so than a PhD. |
Erm. Thanks. | |
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| Anyone done a PhD? on 18:31 - Oct 3 with 575 views | JamestownPrince |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 10:24 - Oct 3 by Cheltenham_Blue |
It's a research by practice PhD.
Topic is around the notion of 'British Identity' specifically what causes the British in particular to constantly look backwards and yearn for a bygone age, something that doesn't really happen in the rest of Europe.
The research topic will be produced as a thesis and 3x 45 minute documentary films, which examine a different aspect of looking backwards. Firstly, Tribute Acts, why people perform them, why people watch them, and the memories of those acts when they were performing live.
Second film will be on re-enactors that reenact battles and recreate war scenes, with very much the same direction as the first. (Why Why Why)
The final film will examine Brexit, and the causes of, based in the false narrative given at the time by many that life was better before.
As brief a synopsis as I can give you. |
Best of luck
Many of us here will watch tribute acts, then we have acts with only part of the remaining members to watch, we might moan "it's not the same" but we still go! |  | | |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 19:21 - Oct 3 with 566 views | MJallday |
| Anyone done a PhD? on 10:47 - Oct 3 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Work reasons. I'm, a lecturer at The Uni of Gloucestershire and am acutely aware that institutions are more focused on staff having PhDs now.
Just feathering my nest incase I need to move on. |
That’s where I gained my 2 degrees in 1999 (when it was cgche) last year is when it changed to UoG
I didn’t go for my Masters or Doctorate, but frankly if any one asks for a doctor on a plane I’d still stick my hand up. What’s the worst that could happen? |  |
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