The PhD Survival Guide Podcast

About The PhD Survival Guide Podcast

Are you a first year PhD student trying to figure out how to navigate grad life? Or maybe you're a fifth year looking for the motivation to write out the last chapter of your dissertation? Regardless of where you are or where you want to be, this is the podcast that talks all things grad school! The purpose of this podcast is to highlight some of the things that I, and others, wish they knew prior to starting their grad school journey. We will be covering a multitude of topics such as mental health, good practices, how to ace your first seminar, and much much more!

Publisher

Ferass

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Oct 2022

Latest episode

7 Oct 2024

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2024

   25. Casual Conversations: Why you're not broken - With Alison Miller, PhD

   Welcome to the PhD Survival Guide Podcast! After our short little hiatus, I am proud to announce that we're back and we're starting strong with a brand new Casual Conversations episode with Alison Miller of The Academic Writers Space! In this episode, we spoke to Alison, who has well over 20 years of experience mentoring students and mentors alike in the academic setting, about various topics such as finding out how to work in a way that works, understanding compatibility in academic work, navigating the inner critic, and so much more. Join us in this insightful conversation and as always, we hope you enjoy the episode! Dr. Miller: Alison Miller is a clinical psychology PhD and entrepreneur who has opened two academic businesses from the ground up, First, in 2000, Alison founded The Dissertation Coach, a coaching and consulting company dedicated to the success of graduate students and faculty. Alison is also the author of Finish Your Dissertation Once and For All: How to Overcome Psychological Barriers, Get Results, and Move on with Your Life, published by the American Psychological Association. Alison recently sold The Dissertation Coach to focus on her newest business endeavor, The Academic Writers’ Space (TAWS), an online coworking community designed for graduate students and academic writers to get real work done in a supportive, kind, and nurturing environment. Connect with Alison and TAWS: Instagram: @theacademicwritersspace (https://www.instagram.com/theacademicwritersspace/) TikTok: @theacademicwritersspace (https://www.tiktok.com/@theacademicwritersspace) YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/TheAcademicWritersSpaceTAWS (https://youtube.com/c/TheAcademicWritersSpaceTAWS) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAcademicWritersSpace (https://www.facebook.com/TheAcademicWritersSpace) Learn more about TAWS: https://www.theacademicwritersspace.com/ (https://www.theacademicwritersspace.com/) Sign up for a free week of TAWS! https://www.theacademicwritersspace.com/free-week/ (https://www.theacademicwritersspace.com/free-week/) Want to be a guest or send me a voice message? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our linktree!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://linktr.ee/phdsg_pod) If you enjoy this podcast and want to tune in as more episodes of the PhD Survival Guide come out, please leave the podcast a like or follow! This way, you will be notified every time a new episode airs. Please share us with your friends! Don't forget to leave us a review! If you have any suggestions for future episodes or topics you would like to hear about, please let me know in the Q&A section below! Follow us on Instagram! ⁠⁠⁠⁠@PhDSG_Pod ⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.instagram.com/phdsg_pod/?hl=en) DISCLAIMER: This podcast was written, produced, and hosted by myself, Ferass. While we do the best we can to gather information from various sources, it is important to remember that everything we say here is of our own opinions and inferences. All PhD students, mentors, and programs are unique and the advice may not always apply. We implore you to think with an open mind. The purpose of this podcast is to help guide and empower current and prospective students throughout their journeys. We appreciate your time. We are also on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts!

2. 

   17 Jun 2024

   24. Casual Conversations: Exploring non-academic paths in the PhD - With Dakota, PhD

   Welcome to the PhD Survival Guide Podcast! As we always say here on the podcast, every PhD journey is unique. I worked full-time in the laboratory and had the privilege of dedicating the majority of my time to my experiments. While I have talked in depth about the pros and cons of this, not all of you have the same experience. In this episode, I spoke to Dakota, a recent PhD graduate who juggled a full-time PhD with a full-time job outside of academia. We spoke about various topics, such as the challenges she faces, ways to expand on your research and experiences, and how to navigate non-academic careers during, and after, your PhD! As always, we hope you enjoy this episode! Dr. Dakota: Dakota is a recent PhD graduate who studied the experiences of Latino young adults using dating apps, their identity construction, partner preferences, and conceptions of happily ever after. She has six years of research experience in both the non-profit and tech sectors and currently works as a mixed methods User Researcher for a tech company. Dakota has previously worked at Facebook studying online connection and community in Facebook groups. In her past in non-profit research, she studied foster youth outcomes at the City University of New York (CUNY)’s Accelerated Studies in Associate’s Programs as well as social welfare intervention analysis for low-income Latino families at the National Hispanic Research Center. She earned her M.A. in Sociology and B.A. in American Studies from Columbia University and is a former Fulbright Spain grantee. Connect with Dakota: Twitter: @dakotazrc (https://x.com/dakotazrc?lang=en) Want to be a guest or send me a voice message? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our linktree!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://linktr.ee/phdsg_pod) If you enjoy this podcast and want to tune in as more episodes of the PhD Survival Guide come out, please leave the podcast a like or follow! This way, you will be notified every time a new episode airs. Please share us with your friends! Don't forget to leave us a review! If you have any suggestions for future episodes or topics you would like to hear about, please let me know in the Q&A section below! Follow us on Instagram! ⁠⁠⁠@PhDSG_Pod ⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.instagram.com/phdsg_pod/?hl=en) DISCLAIMER: This podcast was written, produced, and hosted by myself, Ferass. While we do the best we can to gather information from various sources, it is important to remember that everything we say here is of our own opinions and inferences. All PhD students, mentors, and programs are unique and the advice may not always apply. We implore you to think with an open mind. The purpose of this podcast is to help guide and empower current and prospective students throughout their journeys. We appreciate your time. We are also on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-phdsg-pod/message

3. 

   15 May 2024

   23. Casual Conversations: From diverse roots, to doctorate - Crossing academic origins - With Cristina, MPH and Sarah, BS

   Welcome to the PhD Survival Guide Podcast! In the recent past, some of you have reached out asking these key questions: Does it really make a big difference to have a Master's degree? Or does the research experience you completed in your Bachelor's degree really prepare you for the research burdens in a PhD? What if you don't have either of these things, will you be at a severe disadvantage? In this episode, we tackle the origin stories of Cristina (who has an MPH), Ferass (who has a BS with lab experience), and Sarah (who has a BS with no lab experience). We talked about how how our previous experiences before our PhDs may have impacted or prepared our journies throughout our degrees. As always, we hope you enjoy this episode! Connect with Cristina on LinkedIn! (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-m-andrade-feraud/) Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn! (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-hardin-254103196/) Connect with Ferass on LinkedIn! (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fsammoura/) Want to be a guest or send me a voice message? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our linktree!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://linktr.ee/phdsg_pod) If you enjoy this podcast and want to tune in as more episodes of the PhD Survival Guide come out, please leave the podcast a like or follow! This way, you will be notified every time a new episode airs. Please share us with your friends! Don't forget to leave us a review! If you have any suggestions for future episodes or topics you would like to hear about, please let me know in the Q&A section below! Follow us on Instagram! ⁠⁠⁠@PhDSG_Pod ⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.instagram.com/phdsg_pod/?hl=en) DISCLAIMER: This podcast was written, produced, and hosted by myself, Ferass. While we do the best we can to gather information from various sources, it is important to remember that everything we say here is of our own opinions and inferences. All PhD students, mentors, and programs are unique and the advice may not always apply. We implore you to think with an open mind. The purpose of this podcast is to help guide and empower current and prospective students throughout their journeys. We appreciate your time. We are also on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-phdsg-pod/message

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

100 ratings