PhD Student Induction Course
What you'll learn
- How to find scholarships for doing a PhD
- How to conduct Research towards the award of a PhD degree
- How to Choose a PhD Supervisor or avoid one
- What should a daily Routine of a PhD student
- What is Plagiarism, its various forms and how to avoid it
- How to critically analyze and read a research paper
- How to manage References (Bibliography) during PhD
- How to do a Literature Review
- How to Write a Research Proposal
- What is Significant Original Contribution to Knowledge (Called PhD)
- What mistakes to avoid in a PhD thesis
- How to develop a Questionnaire for collecting research data
- What are some of the free government datasets
Requirements
- This course is for someone who is planning to do a PhD or have just started.
Description
PhD Student Induction Course
This course is designed for students who are planning to do PhD or have just started a PhD or Masters by Research Program.
In this course the first section is about some of the scholarship opportunities available in various countries. The rest of the course sections are geared for new PhD students who have just started their PhD degrees.
This course contains videos. Each video covers one specific topic related to PhD research. In most universities, there is no induction program for PhD students. Most of the PhD students do not understand how to get started, what are some of the things to do on their earliest after starting a research, how to deal with their PhD supervisors/advisors. Many do not realize until very late that they are stuck and there is no way back. Students are at the mercy of their PhD advisors which are already busy or show that they are extremely busy and do not have time for their students. Some are incompetent, some got jobs simply because they knew someone, some are so strict rather cruel with their students. Students have no place to go for guidance. This course is an effort to guide those PhD students who have just started their research career. These videos will help PhD students in their studies, in their research, in their capability in dealing with incompetent supervisors. Also there are videos explaining plagiarism and how to avoid, how to get organized and be more productive during PhD etc. Also how to read and analyze research paper.
Two of the initial challenges for PhD students are how to do a literature review (also called literature survey), how to write a research proposal. There are videos dedicated on these topics which will help students understand these two most important task they face in their first year.
I hope PhD students will find this course helpful.
Who this course is for:
- New PhD Students or someone who is looking for scholarship opportunities to do PhD
Course content
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Instructor
![Dr Tahir Yaqub](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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I am an instructor and trainer originally from living in Australia since 2003. I did my Masters and PhD. from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. I have three career episodes of an engineer, a lecturer, and a researcher. I have been into math, engineering ,productivity tools, Google documents and sheets, programming languages for last 30 years. I can program in four languages. I have published two eBooks, many conference papers and a book chapter during my engineering research career. I am a big fan of online technological, business, project management and productivity tools which we today have at our disposal. These tools have made our lives so much easier and so much fun. We have much more opportunities today than any other time in the history to learn, improve our skills and use these skills for the betterment of our lives and businesses. Therefore few years ago I started to make some online tutorial videos about these tools which later lead me to Udemy courses. So this is a brief story and how I started to make Udemy courses. I still have a lot to offer and soon you may see some more courses in my list of courses.