{"id":466,"date":"2020-07-06T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/scenario\/?p=466"},"modified":"2020-11-26T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T17:45:15","slug":"advice-to-new-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/scenario\/advice-to-new-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice to new PhD students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we get ready to welcome SCENARIO Cohort 7 in September, here are some good advice and top tips for new PhD students from Scenario graduates <a href=\"https:\/\/rebeccalizemerton.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/21\/10-things-i-wish-i-knew-at-the-start-of-my-phd\/\">Rebecca Emerton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenjlees.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/09\/top-5-starting-a-phd-tips\/\">Kirsten Lees.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Social Metwork blog from Reading&#8217;s Department of Meteorology also has some <a href=\"https:\/\/socialmetwork.blog\/2019\/09\/27\/wisdom-from-experience-advice-for-new-phd-students\/\">good advice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I wished I knew at the start of my PhD&#8221; &#8211; here are some top tips from current students and Scenario alumni:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk to as many people as you can, ask as many questions as you can think of, even if you think they are stupid<\/li>\n<li>Be pro-active: If your supervisors don&#8217;t organise a group meeting in the first semester, organise that meeting!<\/li>\n<li>All research is different &#8211; don&#8217;t compare your work to others&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Start with good habits and stick to them &#8211; keep good notes, log what you&#8217;ve read, use version control on your code &#8211; it&#8217;ll save you time in the end<\/li>\n<li>Make the most of opportunities at the beginning of your PhD &#8211; you&#8217;ll be too busy at the end!<\/li>\n<li>Start writing early<\/li>\n<li>Year 1 is a bit scoping exercise.. don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t feel you&#8217;re achieved much my the end of it<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s important to have a plan and targets from the beginning in order to stay on track.<\/li>\n<li>Do all the fun things!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Emma Hellawell, Daphne Jackson Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, has given some good advice to new students as part of our Induction programme &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/scenario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2020\/07\/Emma-Hellawell-SCENARIO-presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get ready to welcome SCENARIO Cohort 7 in September, here are some good advice and top tips for new PhD students from Scenario graduates Rebecca Emerton and Kirsten&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#115;&#99;&#101;&#110;&#97;&#114;&#105;&#111;&#47;&#97;&#100;&#118;&#105;&#99;&#101;&#45;&#116;&#111;&#45;&#110;&#101;&#119;&#45;&#112;&#104;&#100;&#45;&#115;&#116;&#117;&#100;&#101;&#110;&#116;&#115;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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