Graduate Student Resources
Being in grad school can be challenging, tiring and overwhelming. However, this is tempered by profound growth, periods of jubilation and professional accomplishments. This space is dedicated to resources for graduate students, to help you push through those challenges to reach your goals. If you have any you would like to share as well, we would love to have them.
Research Tips
Research strategies for beginning academics:
- The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research
- How to Handle Large Amounts of Literature
- Managing Your Reading List
- Ethics Application with Minimal Pain
Tips on publishing and presenting your research:
- First Time Poster Presentation
- How to Write an Abstract in 30 Minutes
- Using Twitter to Reach More Readers
- How to Publish a Paper that will Get Cited
- Consider Writing a Book Review
Blogs on Graduate Student Life
Tips, Advice and Stories on Graduate Life:
Event Synopses
The Future of the PhD
- White Paper on the Future of the PhD in Humanities
- Trial is by What is Contrary (pdf)
- Course for PhDs and Candidates Templates (xls)
- Hey, humanities PhD candidates 2nd and 3rd Year-long Course (pdf)
- Hey, humanities PhDs (pdf)
Videos from the Future of the PhD Conference
1. Paul Yachnin: Public Skills: Rethinking Graduate Education in the Humanities
2. Lesley Cormack: What should Universities do?
3. Robert Roach: From the Outside Looking In: PhDs Outside the Academy
4. Anne Krook: "Trial is by what is contrary": new directions for the Humanities PhD
5. Session 2: University of Alberta Initiatives: Panel discussion
6. Small Group Discussions: Enabling change at the UofA