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Lees alles over het doen van een PhD en het opbouwen van een wetenschappelijke carrière in onze blog. Wetenschappers Eva Lantsoght (professor) en Pranav Kulkarni (PhD) delen hun ervaringen en geven je concrete tips.

Recente blog posts

Promoting your research: a guide for PhD students

The research conducted by PhD students is an essential fuel that makes the university engines work. It forms a large part, if not the majority, of the research work done in many labs across the world. Yet, I find that most of the studies done by PhD…

Pranav S. Kulkarni

How to be found by Dutch university recruiters

Did you know that recruiters from universities, university medical centers, research institutions, the business industry, government, and not-for-profits are looking for candidates on our platform?If you have an account on AcademicTransfer, you can …

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Time blocking for researchers

If you have an interest in productivity writing, then you may have noticed that time blocking has been receiving a lot of attention lately. Time blocking is being praised as the best solution to battle distraction in our age of relentless email floo…

PhD students with a side hustle

In the Netherlands, many PhD candidates are university employees with a salary. Some students may be on a scholarship from their home country, or have another arrangement to do their PhD. For these students, as well as those on the regular PhD candi…

Soft skills for PhDs - part 2

In Soft skills for PhDs - part 1 I shared five important soft skills that you train during your PhD trajectory: critical thinking, time management, brainstorming, ethical decision making and negotiation & teamwork. Today I would like to add five…

Pranav S. Kulkarni

Soft skills for PhDs - part 1

In the fast paced academic world of today, soft skills can either make or break the future of a PhD candidate. Contrary to popular belief, academics and PhD students require soft skills and management techniques along with their usual rigorous techn…

Pranav S. Kulkarni

How to deal with the distraction of social media

Do you find yourself distracted by social media at times? Are you trying to write an abstract, yet veer off to check Twitter a few times in the process? Or do you find yourself tempted to check your phone notifications too many times during the day?…

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia

2020 and the global COVID-19 pandemic did not only help us to realize how important health, research, and good access to health care are, but also how much change is still necessary in our societies to reach (social and racial) justice. Academia is…

How to build up your life in a foreign country as a PhD student

This blogpost is aimed at those of us who come from abroad to pursue a PhD in Europe and more specifically in the Netherlands. There are a lot of small issues that we need to be aware of before we can settle into our new life comfortably. Coming fro…

Pranav S. Kulkarni

Options for virtual learning during (and after?) COVID-19

Will COVID-19 completely change the face of education and learning? We can't answer this question with certainty, but after more than a year of virtual learning at all levels, it's quite likely that virtual learning has become more embedded in educa…