Mental Health

First Year PhD – Assembling the Expedition Team

Welcome to the PhD Dojo! This week, I’m bringing you part three of the PhD Dojo series on tools and strategies to make the best out of your PhD experience. Today – Assembling the PhD Expedition Team, or how to ensure your PhD won’t be a solitary endeavor and that you will have help and…

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S’éloigner de la recherche et y revenir avec Nicolas Stifani

Contribue à la production de Papa PhD sur Patreon ! Ou ravitaille David en café 🙂 Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, je t’apporte ma récente conversation avec Nicolas Stifani, coordonnateur de la plateforme de miscroscopie de l’Université de Montréal. Nicolas et moi nous sommes croisés au doctorat, à l’Institut Neurologique de Montréal. Dans cette conversation…

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First Year PhD – Avoiding the Pitfalls – PhD Dojo

Welcome to the PhD Dojo! This week, I’m starting a series on tools and strategies to make the best out of your PhD experience. Today – Things I would have loved to know when I started my PhD and that would have saved me a lot of headaches. Below, you’ll find the full, edited to…

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Are Things Changing for the Better for Women in STEM? with Krishna Kadiyala

Get the Papa PhD Career Readiness Tool kit ! On this episode, I will be bringing you my interview with Krishna Kadiyala. During our conversation, we talked about Krishna’s experience as a woman in the STEM space, and in particular about her decision to have children during the PhD. An important conversation I really wanted…

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Gérer les peurs au doctorat – PhD Dojo avec Sarah Perrier

Contribue à la production de Papa PhD sur Patreon ! Ou ravitaille David en café 🙂 Bienvenue à l’épisode 2 du PhD Dojo en français, avec Sarah Perrier, du podcast Plog de thèse. Aujourd’hui, je Sarah et moi profitons de l’ambiance d’Halloween pour te parler de peur. Plus précisément, des peurs auxquelles il est fréquent…

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Being a PhD, a father and an entrepreneur with Matthias Hombauer

Get the Papa PhD Tool kit ! On this episode, I will be bringing you my interview with International Rockstar Photographer, dadpreneur and coach Matthias Hombauer, PhD. During our conversation, Matthias shares his experience in graduate school and shares how he dealt with the growing feeling that his future was not in research. Namely, we…

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The Pillars of PhD Career Readiness with Mrim Boutla

Get the Papa PhD Tool kit ! Welcome to Season 3 of the Papa PhD podcast! To start this new season, today I’m bringing you a great interview Dr. Mrim Boutla, a neuroplasticity PhD turned career coach, who was on the show in Season 2, but in French. Mrim has put a lot of thought into…

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Revisiting the Humanities PhD in 2021 with Greg Kelly

Get the Papa PhD Tool kit ! This week on Papa PhD, I have the pleasure of bringing you my conversation with Greg Kelly, Executive producer of IDEAS, on CBC Radio. During our conversation, Greg shares a very colourful recount of his experience in Oxford as a literature PhD student and talks about his post-PhD…

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A Discussion About “Bad Habits” in Academia With Author Amy Gentry

This week on Papa PhD, I’m discussing a fictional book – a thriller set within academia – with author Amy Gentry. In our conversation, I talked with Amy about her personal experience going through a PhD in the humanities and about what aspects of that experience inspired her to write “Bad Habits”. Amy Gentry is…

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Staying True to Your Life Plans During the PhD with Katya Park

Hi! This week, I have the great pleasure of bringing you a conversation about life balance in graduate school with Katya Park. During the interview, Katya shared how during her PhD and postdoc she made sure to stay true to her life plans, namely those related to building a family, while working towards her goals,…

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