Let’s Talk about Money
We don’t talk about salary enough when discussing post-graduate school careers. Here are a few things to consider.
Category: Perspectives
Navigating Professional Uncertainty
How do you deal with the psychological toll of constant waiting and worrying over how “things will turn out”?
Teaching as Public Scholarship
The History Department is revamping its pedagogy training for Ph.D. students around the idea that teaching is translation.
Why Taking the Plunge “Early” Into the Academic Job Market is Worthwhile
Thoughts on the 2018 VH@Duke Academic Job Search Summer Advising Group.
Four Principles to Building a Professional Network
Takeaways from a recent conversation about conversation at the Humanities Unbounded Microworlds Lab.
Follow Your Energy
Feeling overwhelmed by All The Things you can (or should) do as a graduate student? Some field-tested advice for when decision fatigue sets in.
Channels and Challenges of Public Scholarship
Two Ph.D. students discuss what they learned about engaging broader audiences in a hands-on course about public scholarship.
Reimagining Doctoral Education at Duke
Findings and recommendations from a Duke initiative to plot a course for Ph.D. training in the 21st Century.
Archival Expeditions, Unexpected Discoveries
Peer mentoring, public scholarship, and connecting with other areas of Duke were just a few of the benefits of a research collaboration between two history Ph.D. students fostered by a Rubenstein Library initiative.
Let’s Talk about Nonacademic Jobs
PhD students shouldn’t feel like they need to hide when talking about nonacademic jobs. How can we foster a climate where these conversations aren’t a big deal?