Travel Guide to your PhD

HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY FINISH A PhD?

Completing a PhD is a long and challenging journey. Many PhD candidates start that journey full of enthusiasm, but lose direction and motivation along the way. Often, this loss of momentum happens because they, like their supervisors, focus too much on the content and neglect the process.

This travel guide teaches you how to successfully navigate the PhD process so that you can enjoy the journey more and reach your destination with better results and in good spirits.

How do you stay on course and maintain a steady pace? How do you tackle challenges and obstacles on your path? How do you keep it fun? Whether you’re struggling with writing, finding the right literature, feedback, time pressure, procrastination, motivation, or balancing work and life—this book helps. It’s packed with experiences from those who have traveled this road before you.

Benefit from proven strategies, practical tips, and fresh insights. Learn how to set achievable goals, stay mentally and physically fit, and maintain enjoyment in the process. Get inspired by expert tips from Annelien Bredenoord, Eveline Crone, Leni van Doorn, Halleh Ghorashi, Jetty Hoeksema, and Eduard Klasen.

“To everyone doing a PhD, I wish you a world of unsuspected and unsought knowledge. Combined with the pleasure of searching for it yourself. Let’s hope that this book provides help in approaching that effectively, so that others can gain the same sense of satisfaction from doing a PhD that I still feel to this day.”

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Authors

Arjenne Louter

The dutch PHD coach/Louter Promoveren

Would you recommend anyone to do a PhD?

Sure. But only if you want to. You don’t need one to be happy.

Lodewijk Schmit Jongbloed

Schmit Jongbloed Advies

Would you recommend to your son or daughter to do a PhD?

Sure. But read this book before you start.

Marjo Wijnen - Meijer

university of technology, dresden

Would you recommend a promotion to your son, daughter or cousin?

Above all, I would advise everyone to develop further, but it does not necessarily have to be with a PhD project. It can also be through projects at work, another educational programme, and so on. Only if you want to work scientifically, of course, it is a must.

Questions?

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