Emmanuel Tsekleves

Does your PhD supervisor contradict their own feedback? It is probably not their fault. It is probably yours. Here is how to fix it.

Have you been receiving contradictory feedback from your supervisor? Would love to hear examples. RT tweet 1 if you know a researcher doing their doctorate the hard way. Every Wednesday I send one technique most supervisors never teach. Free. Under 4 minutes: phdtoprof.com/newsletter

No one is judging a finished product yet. Your supervisor is there to help you build it. That is a different job, and it needs a different kind of draft. Share the work while it is still forming. That is when feedback can actually change something.

Does your PhD supervisor contradict their own feedback? It is probably not their fault. It is probably yours. Here is how to fix it.

Every Wednesday I send one technique most supervisors never teach. Free. Under 4 minutes. Join 10,000+ researchers: phdtoprof.com/newsletter

Which of the 6 steps would you start with tomorrow? For most new mentees I see, Step 1 is the one they have never been taught. Bookmark this. RT tweet 1 for someone in their literature review now.

Most PhDs go wrong in Month 1. Reading is the wrong place to start a literature review.

40% of PhD students fail their methodology chapter on first submission. Almost all of them designed it in the wrong order.

The Research Insider. One technique per week that most PhD programmes leave out. Free. 10,000+ subscribers. phdtoprof.com/newsletter

A weak methodology with a strong defence beats a strong methodology with a weak one. Most mentees come to me at Step 4, two months from submission. We restart at Step 1 and the methods change every time. Which step would you start with on your research right now? Bookmark this. RT tweet 1 for a candidate choosing methods this term.