Category Archives: PhD training

Recent Posts

• How to map out debates in the scholarly literature
• Making our research dialogue with the broader scholarly literature in our academic writing
• A guiding framework to help learners write more analytically by focusing on the Description, Analysis and Interpretation stages of the research process (GReDAI)
• Gap-spotting, problematization, finding a niche: How can researchers develop their contribution to the literature?
• Doing a project per career stage versus executing multiple projects: Pros, cons and my own experience
• On the importance of a To-Do List, and 5 strategies to get TDL items completed
• Paying yourself first by time-blocking your writing, thinking and researching time
• Developing a READING practice: 4 reasons and 5 tips
• 6 tips to re-start your writing practice
• Learning how to deal with rejection in academia…
• Developing a sustainable writing practice
• Of zombie papers and manuscripts…
• A new year, a new era, and a new beginning for my blog
• Connecting your specific research to broader questions in the literature, the field and the discipline
• The value and importance of the pre-writing stage of writing
• My experience teaching residential academic writing workshops
• “State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Brazil” – Jessica Rich – my reading notes
• Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose – my reading notes
• Using the Pacheco-Vega workflows and frameworks to write and/or revise a scholarly book
• On framing, the value of narrative and storytelling in scholarly research, and the importance of asking the “what is this a story of” question
• The Abstract Decomposition Matrix Technique to find a gap in the literature
• 16 tips on the process of academic writing and publishing from the #ISA2023 Environmental Studies Section Speed Mentoring Session
• Producing journal article manuscripts from a doctoral dissertation
• 5 habit-forming, practice-developing strategies that you can work with during the upcoming month
• On calendars, synchronization and collaborative work in academia: Aligning Priorities and Availabilities across multiple people