Hi! My name is Alex and I currently work at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna as a Post-Doc researcher. I am writing a short eBook to help PhD students deal with stress and learn more effective strategies to make the PhD less painful. I’d love to hear from current PhD students about some of the challenges they are facing and would like more help with. Any comments on the below would be really helpful and I will integrate your feedback in the eBook.

1. What is the single most stressful or frustrating thing about doing a PhD?

2. What strategies or skills would you most like to learn or improve in order to make this process easier?

3. If you could improve or change anything about doing a PhD what would it be?

4. If you were starting over, which 2 or 3 things would you do differently?

Many thanks!