A lot of PhD students complain about the meetings with their supervisor: they don’t get the feedback they need, they are overwhelmed by all the tips they are getting but don’t know how to use them, and they are getting lost because their research needs to go into a different…
Often I am asked what the most important tip is for writing effectively. Of course, there is a lot to say about that, you can become more effective in many different ways, but the most important thing you definitely need to do is to separate the different phases in writing.…
There is this Toni Braxton song called ‘Little things’. Don’t ask me what I think of the music, but the lyrics inspired me to write this blogpost. This is the song I’m talking about. Why do little things matter? Because they can make a huge difference. What kind of small…
Your daily schedule has a big influence on your productivity and effectiveness. Probably this isn’t new for you. And the interesting question is of course how to plan your day in such a way that you are as effective as possible and don’t get stressed out. Especially after the holidays,…
Good writers make sure they divide their writing into different phases, because of efficiency and effectiveness. Without going into all the different phases of the writing process (I will do that in another blog article, or if you can read Dutch, you will find information about that here), you might…
Planning, time management is a skill a lot of PhD-students struggle with. In this blog a few tips on how to plan well. On top of the chart: Never plan more than 80% of your time. The rest of the time will fill itself with unexpected things that need to…
