Ian, i paid the rent and was threatened tht if i moved out, i would no longer be welcome back home. I arranged accommodation without telling them bc i really wanted to live more independently. But now it looks like this independence is going to cost me my family. That's what i keep thinking about: family (esp parents are unwell) or autonomy? I cannot even think about my phd. It's gona be month and this has been tormenting me since.

Hello all,

i would like to do a boo review on a newly-published work, but rather than an academic, it is written by a journalist, albeit on my field. Can I nevertheless ask an academic journal to review it for them?

Hello all,

I just started my Phd and I JUST changed my topic. I really want to read and submit the literature review that I am supposed to hand in to my supervisors, but due to family/financial problems, my mind is constantly elsewhere, I cannot focus and I when I read, I cannot recall what I read!

I started a month ago, and only read 5 articles for my Phd thus far :(

I am worried :(

Everyone is well ahead and knows everything about their literature, and I am here, thinking about other things.

Hello all,

I have come up with a question and a case study, and I am planning on using a recent model proposed by a theorist to account for the occurrence of a particular type of inter-group conflict by using my case study. Except for the fact that this model is relatively new (proposed in the last 5 years; it is actually an improvement on earlier explanations in itself, not a radically new idea) and not applied to my case study, I really don't see what originality I am bringing to the subject. I know I need to read a lot more, but the question I am doing has been done to death in different areas of the world, it is probably just my narrow case study that is different.


I have just started my phd, so of course I am still ignorant of much of the literature on my topic.


STRESSING OUT AND IT IS ALREADY OCTOBER!

Hello all,

so.. I will be presenting at a my first ever conference on 26th-27th October in another country, but only got told last week that I have been selected. I was thinking of simply not attending, yet today I received an email telling me that the foreign minister of that country is going to deliver an opening speech on the first day (my session is on the second day). I have not written anything/nor written anything/researched because I thought they had not chosen me. Is it still possible to come up with a paper? Should cancel? I really want to go, but I am worried I might make a fool of myself. HELP!

Hello all,

I have just started, but I would like to get advice on how to organise a seminar as a phd student. I searched online, but I get a list of phd students who organised workshops, not how to do it. Any help?
Thanks!!!

Hello all,
I am worried because I have just begun my phd and because I am starting a topic from scratch, I am worried my supervisors might not like it when I present it for our first meeting.:(
I am so scared they will find so many wrong things in it like impossibility of measuring the effect I want to analyse, too broad etc.... :(

I am so scared I can't even concentrate for my reading! It feels like it is all a stupid idea!