by Eleanor Pritchard | Jan 13, 2021 | Acrwi, Uncategorized
By consistently showing up for half a day a week since July last year, the Thriving Researcher writing group has racked up nearly 100 hours of writing in community. Since joining the group, members have finished chapters, submitted articles, written and delivered...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Jan 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
(Glances over shoulder at 2020 as it retreats) In 2020, thanks to Covid-19, we all experienced major changes to our lives which were outside our control, and left us variously worried, frustrated, bored, downright frightened, and heartbroken. And yet, amidst all the...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Welcome, new student, To the (often surreal) life of a doctoral researcher. Through The Thriving Researcher and my work at the University of Oxford, I meet many hundreds of new students every year, and here are six nudges I come back to time and again that will help...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Through June, The Thriving Researcher and Chapelgarth Writing Retreats hosted five collaborative day-long, online, writing retreats. They were hugely popular, all 125 places booked out within 24 hours of being advertised, and we were joined by academics...
by Eleanor Pritchard | Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Over coffee last week, my friend Angela and I lamented how we sometimes miss emails in our inboxes. Even really, really important ones. Angela’s a post-doc, and she contrasted herself with her academic lead. This woman always delivers a detailed and careful...
