by Eleanor Pritchard | Feb 4, 2021 | Community
It’s so good to have you here! I’m Eleanor, and I’ve worked with doctoral and early career researchers for over a decade. Along the way, I’ve learnt an enormous amount from my own experiences (including getting a PhD from Oxford, working part-...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Feb 3, 2021 | Acrwi
Collective writing has been such a core part of The Thriving Researcher activities from its very beginning and in 2021, we’ll be adding an additional strand to our writing programme: three stand-alone full-day writing retreats to raise funds and awareness for...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Jan 28, 2021 | PhD Project Management, Visual learner, Working Smarter Series
(Raises hand as a stationary obsessive) Who doesn’t love a new set of highlighter pens, or the highlighter colour palette in any onscreen reviewing tool? Their inherent promise to bring order through use, to save us time, to bring us – cheerfully –...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Jan 20, 2021 | Career Development
Why ignore hundreds of free micro-trainings a year? A quick poll of 12 PhD students indicated that, on average, around 7 questions are asked of the speaker at every seminar they attended. At a rate of just one seminar a week during term time, that’s roughly 210...