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How to Get a PhD

Finding the Right Research Topic, Advisor, University, and Funding Options for Your PhD
Rating: 3.7 out of 53.7 (13 ratings)
103 students
Created by Alexander O'Hara PhD
Last updated 11/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to achieve a PhD
  • How to identify the right topic for your PhD thesis
  • Finding the right supervisor for your PhD thesis
  • Finding the best university for your PhD thesis
  • How to successfully navigate the PhD process
  • How to course-correct if problems arise
  • PhD Research
  • Research Methodology
  • How to succeed in academia
  • Research skills
  • Research strategy
  • How to Fund Your PhD without Student Debt

Requirements

  • Anyone considering doing a PhD or in a PhD program

Description

How do you discover the right topic for your PhD thesis, choose the best advisor, and select the right University for your PhD research? How do you ensure that you get funding for your PhD without taking on student debt?

These are the first and critical steps in setting you up to succeed in your PhD quest.

This course will guide you through these steps so that you will be better informed to make better decisions in these key areas and help you achieve your PhD in the fastest and most effective way possible.

After completing this course you will be able:

1. To understand the process in how best to achieve a PhD for you

2. To identify the critical steps in selecting a topic for PhD research

3. Identifying the critical steps in finding the right advisor for PhD research

4. Critical analysis aiding in the process of choosing the right University for PhD research

5. To be aware of the funding options available for funding your PhD

5. To successfully navigate the PhD process by being more informed about what it involves

Led by leading academic and Oxford University Press author with over ten years of experience working in European centres for Higher Education, the course contains short videos, transcriptions, and an exclusive audio interview with Professor Inger Mewburn, a world expert on PhD research, author and founder of the popular Thesiswhisperer blog.

Who this course is for:

  • PhD students
  • Grad students
  • Postgraduate students
  • Students considering doing a PhD
  • Researchers
  • Academic

Course content

7 sections • 30 lectures • 2h 0m total length

  • Preview04:47

  • The PhD Canvas/ Research Canvas: Your One Page Research Proposal
    02:29
  • Download PhD Canvas
    1 question
  • Filling out the PhD Canvas
    13:29
  • Fill Out PhD Canvas
    1 question

  • Discovering your topic
    01:16
  • How I discovered my topic
    03:34
  • Narrowing down your topic
    02:19
  • What if someone else is working on my topic?
    04:15
  • Finding the gap
    01:33
  • Create a working bibliography
    01:14
  • An example from my own research
    02:04

  • Selecting the right supervisor
    05:19
  • What to expect
    02:06
  • Distance supervision?
    01:15
  • Action steps
    00:16

  • Selecting the right University
    02:10
  • Criteria to look out for
    07:13
  • Settling in
    01:51
  • Problem shooting and changing supervisors
    01:38
  • Action steps
    00:36

  • The Cardinal Rule: Doing the PhD Debt Free
    02:01
  • How I Funded my PhD
    02:30
  • Why I Quit Oxford University
    02:28
  • Doing a Part-Time PhD
    02:55
  • Types of Scholarships and Funding Options
    03:00
  • PhD Student Debt: Some Stats
    02:08
  • Action Steps
    01:29
  • Top 10 Tips for Getting Your PhD
    00:00
  • Further Reading: Top 3 Recommended Books
    01:32
  • One Final Word
    02:00
  • Listen to podcast with Professor Inger Mewburn
    1 question

  • Preview41:14

Instructor

Alexander O'Hara PhD
Research Mentor
Alexander O'Hara PhD
  • 3.7 Instructor Rating
  • 13 Reviews
  • 103 Students
  • 1 Course

Dr Alexander O'Hara is an academic author and founder of pagexpage, a PhD App and online community for PhD students. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of St Andrews where he was a Carnegie Scholar and obtained his PhD in History in 2009. He is an Oxford University Press author and has published five books. He was formerly a Research Fellow in the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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