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The PhD Life Raft Podcast

Dr Emma Brodzinski

This is the podcast for you if you are currently doing a PhD; are working with PhD students; or just living with someone who is on a PhD journey. The PhD Life Raft will focus on sharing insights and experiences around some common issues like anxiety, procrastination, precariousness, imposter syndrome, and work-life balance. We will talk to students, supervisors and experts in the field of wellbeing and mental health and share actionable tips and additional resources. Doing a PhD is tough. The

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20:02

Revitalize your research journey: harnessing the...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/12/18

Victoria has more than 10 years experience as a consultant medical herbalist and functional medicine practitioner and is also a trained wellness coach. In this episode Victoria reflects on her journey through her PhD and into her career as a research scientist where she struggled to manage a chronic health condition that left her in pain on a daily basis. She shares the changes she made that enabled her to improve her long term health and become pain free. We focus on the Solstice and seasonal

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33:16

The Hero[ine]'s Journey and the PhD with Allan Johnson

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/12/10

Allan Johnson is Associate Professor in English Literature & Associate Dean (Doctoral College), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Alongside this work he is also a mindfulness teacher and co-facilitator of The PhD Circle with Emma Brodzinski. In this episode Allan shares his own “fork in the road” experience that led hime into his research topic. Allan highlights the different phases within the doctorate and why some moments might feel more difficult than others. He discusses how Campbell’s

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22:34

Doctoral Writing Groups with Kathleen Vacek

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/12/04

Dr Kathleen Vacek is an academic writing coach who researches lived experiences of doctoral writing and scholarly publishing. During the course of her PhD, she became a mother and left her full-time academic staff position. She was supported on this rocky journey by a doctoral writing group she formed with members of her program cohort. In this episode Kate shares how her group was formed and maintained and reflects on her experience of what worked and what was not so useful. She also offers

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32:35

Unforeseen Challenges: Finding Support in the PhD...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/11/27

Amy Bonsall has completed her PhD at Leeds University. Her thesis was recognised as demonstrating exemplary research in the field of practice-led research in intercultural Shakespeare theatre performance. She is also the associate artistic director of Bilimankhwe arts and continues to direct professional, commercial theatre productions. Amy founded the Women in Academia Support Network #WIASN a group of 10,000 women academics from around the world. In this episode Amy shares the challenges that

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28:46

Balancing PhD Study with Full-time Work with Denise...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/11/20

Denise Venturi is Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on the concept of vulnerability with reference to LGBTIQ+ asylum-seekers and refugees. At present, she is a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle-Saale, Germany). She has worked for UNHCR in various protection roles, with a focus on refugee status determination, capacity building, and law and policy analysis. She has been Asylum Liaison Officer with

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30:22

The Changing Culture of the University with Nicholas...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/11/13

Nicholas Dirks is President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, one of the oldest scientific organizations in the United States. Previously, Nick served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and Executive VP and Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including the forthcoming book, City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University. In this episode shares his own experience of the PhD and starting out on

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28:34

Doctorate Done, What Next? Crafting Your Post-PhD...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/11/06

Jen Polk did her PhD in History from the University of Toronto and went on to launch from Ph.D. to Life, a career coaching and speaking business. She specialises in graduate education and careers for doctoral degree holders. She’s also a guest speaker on university campuses and academic and professional conferences throughout North America and beyond. In this episode we focus on life after completing a PhD and the transition from academia to the professional world. Jen emphasizes the

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37:06

Navigating a Fertility Journey Alongside the PhD with...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/10/30

Dr. Kate Massey-Chase is an academic, facilitator, activist, performer and writer. She’s a Lecturer at Plymouth Marjon University, where she’s leading a new MA in Arts, Health and Wellbeing. As a creative arts practitioner, she has worked across a range of educational and community settings, including delivering theatre-based and creative writing projects with young migrants, recovering addicts, prisoners and mental health service users. In this episode Kate shares her remarkable journey through

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24:11

Lessons from a PhD Internship with Samir Morsli

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/10/23

Samir Morsli is a postdoctoral research associate in the Munoz-Espin lab at The University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the early stages of lung cancer initiation and progression, primarily involving zombie-like senescent cells. During his PhD Samir carried out an Internship and worked as part of the Public Engagement team at The Babraham Institute. In this episode Samir shares his experience of how he arranged and completed a mandatory internship during their PhD. He

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23:27

The PhD and Pets with Laura Revilla and Chobi

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/10/16

Laura Revilla is a PhD candidate in Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) in Cottbus, Germany. Her research focuses on understanding diverse forms of heritage and security in Mexican communities through bottom-up practices and decolonial thinking. Through her journey, she aims to discover the uses and relevance of heritage in our everyday lives. In this episode Laura shares her PhD journey and how it has been shaped by her cat Chobi. Laura explains how Chobi has been both

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28:22

Special Needs Parenting and the PhD with Kaisa...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/10/09

Dr Kaisa Pankakoski is a writer, researcher, translator, and multilingualism consultant. For her PhD at Cardiff University she looked at multilingual families’ language ideologies, strategies, and experiences in Finland and Wales. During the course of her PhD, she gained grants from eleven different funding bodies in her two home countries to complete the thesis. In this episode Kaisa reflects on the turning point when she decided to return to academia and focus on researching multilingual

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27:01

Coping with Challenges on the PhD Journey with Rachel...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/09/28

Rachel Campbell completed her PhD in visual culture, celebrity studies, and musicology. Her thesis, 'The image of musical celebrity in the Nineteenth Century' considers the way visual representations of musicians influenced how they were seen as celebrities through analysis of oil portraits, busts, prints and other ephemera. She also holds a Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours) and is a professional musician and has been a music teacher for nearly 20 years. She has three children who play 8

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26:21

Navigating Intellectual Disagreements on the PhD...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/07/10

Professor Laurajane Smith completed her PhD part-time between 1990 and 1996 while working as a full time teaching and research academic at both Charles Sturt University and the University of New South Wales. She is currently Director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University. She is also a fellow of the Society for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In 2010-12, she worked to establish the Association of

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33:16

Taking an Interruption from the PhD with Chrissi...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/07/03

Dr Chrissi McCarthy is the founder and Managing Director of Constructing Equality. Over the past decade and a half, she has formulated and implemented research-based methodologies to bolster equality within diverse organisations. Her client portfolio spans prestigious institutions including the National Health Service and Bristol City Council. Chrissi’s PhD explored equality, fairness and inclusion and fed directly into her work with Constructing Equality. In this episode Chrissi shares a very

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27:04

What I would do differently if I did my PhD again...

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/06/26

Dr Rose Aslan was a tenured Professor of Religious Studies who found herself burnt out and, on a sabbatical in Istanbul, decided to step away from academia. From her current perspective, Rose explores what she would do differently if she were to do her PhD again. Rose acknowledges that, although there were some good moments, she didn’t really enjoy her PhD experience and, with the benefit of hindsight, she can identify where an approach with prioritized well-being would have greatly improved that

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28:35

Mastering Academic Writing with Eve Grubin

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/06/18

Dr Eve Grubin is the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). She is a lecturer at NYU in London and a tutor at the Poetry School. Eve received an AHRC / TECHNE scholarship to write her PhD thesis (Kingston University): ‘Boat of Letters and the Poetics of Reticence: A Creative and Critical Thesis’. In this episode Eve reflects on how, as a professional poet, she came to mastering academic writing within her PhD.

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29:23

Being a Single Parent on a PhD Journey with Ines Amami

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/06/12

Dr Inès Amami holds a PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle University in French literature and civilization. Her research is about the representation of the West and the Muslim world in the Encyclopédie de Diderot (18th century). Ines is also a political activist in the field of women’s rights and fights against all kinds of violence. She is a single mother of an 11 year old daughter. In this episode we talk about the challenges that Ines has faced over the course of her PhD journey which started in

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25:53

100th Episode with Fleur Farish-Edwards

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/06/05

It’s the 100th episode of The PhD Life Raft Podcast! Fleur Farish-Edwards - a gorgeous member of the PhD Life Raft community - is leading the celebrations with a reflection on the way in which the podcast has been party of her PhD journey. Fleur is an experienced counsellor and supervisor, and along with her wife, facilitates creative workshops as “Two Birds Therapy”. Fleur is also a university lecturer in counselling and is currently working on a professional doctorate, researching the life-long

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27:07

Undertaking Your Second PhD with Yulia Karpova

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/05/28

Yulia Karpova is undertaking her second PhD! Yes, for her, once though the journey just wasn’t enough! In this week’s episode we talk about how things are different the second time around. Yulia is currently studying at the University of Southern Denmark. She also holds a PhD in History (2015) from Central European University. From 2016-18, she held a Maria Sklodowska Curie postdoc at Aarhus University and, from 2021–2022 she was a postdoc in the project ‘Exhibiting across the Iron Curtain’ at

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27:41

Managing the Summer as a PhD Researcher with Kate Henry

The PhD Life Raft Podcast ·

2023/05/22

Kate Henry is a productivity coach, independent scholar, and author who lives outside Boston, Massachusetts in the U.S. Kate received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and her Master's degree and Doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this episode, we focus on an upcoming event ‘A Month of Mondays’ - which is designed to help PhD researchers plan for a productive Summer. We talk about getting ready for the summer and Kate touches on many

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