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.

Thank you very much for your reply, but my family issues are actually related to my phd, and especially my desire to move out to be closer to my institution (religious/cultural reasons). So interrupting won't be such a good idea I am think.


I have to do the literature review to know what are the gaps and how I can add to the ;development of the field (I just started another topic). It is boring, but it has to be done :(

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!