How to make it through your PhD?

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### Ido Bar | PhD
### Griffith University 
### Environmental Futures Research Institute

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# Road to PhD

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# Actual road to PhD

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- PhD is a long and winding road
- Full of obstacles and hardships

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# Hurdles and Obstacles

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.big[Academic]

- Experimental
- Milestones
- Writing
- Supervisor

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# Progress meetings with your supervisor

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# Hurdles and Obstacles

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### Personal

- Breakups (serious!)
- Mental health
- Loneliness
- Child birth and loss

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## A day in the (PhD) life...

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- Trying to keep your head above the muddy water
- Maybe add a slide about writing block

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## .white[It is more like this]

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The chemistry of hardship:
The harder it gets, the closer you get to your peers
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# The (Al)chemistry of hardship
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.lef-column[.big[The harder it gets, the stronger it bonds]]

.foot-credit[Image credit: [Von Jsslee - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44779272)]

## .white[Your friends will reach out]

???

- They will pull you up when needed (and you will pull them)

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# Comradery

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- In the toughest moments, your friends will be there for you as a safety net

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# What do you expect to get from your PhD?

.left-column[<img src="img/poll_QR.png" alt="" width="100%" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;"/> <br> .big[Scan the QR code to fill a quick poll (in a word or two)]]
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# So what is it for?
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<img src="img/thesis_on_shelf.jpeg" alt="thesis-on-shelf" width="65%" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;"/>
???

- Birth certificate
- Kayak fishing trophy
- PhD award and Thesis

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# YOU!

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# Most significant output
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" align="center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ten years after closing my lab, I've concluded that my most significant contribution to science in my twenty years as an active researcher wasn't a paper or a finding. It was the scientists that I mentored.</p>&mdash; Mary Ellen Lane (@MaryEllenLane29) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryEllenLane29/status/1144025194752819201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2019</a></blockquote>

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# What is it for?
## Becoming a better researcher (you!)

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- Expert in your field
- Independent
- Mature
- Strong/Resilient
- Connected
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- What is it for? What's the end result
- You becoming stronger, more resilient, independent, mature
- You all know who I mean...

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# My best advice?

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## Invest in your network, social life and wellbeing

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- It's your journey, enjoy it!

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- Enjoy it while you can...
- You're a protected species, you can still make mistakes, take time off, go the the pool/gym/beach 
- Life only gets more complicated

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