Tag: part-time phd
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Tips for Passing your Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
In January 2022, I passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam and officially became a Ph.D. Candidate. For those who aren’t familiar with the Ph.D. process, this means that I am ABD, which stands for “All but dissertation.” This means that all that’s left in my program is for me to write and defend my dissertation. A…
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Presentation: Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage
On May 16-17th, 2022, I attended the SpokenWeb Symposium 2022 at Concordia University in Montreal on the theme of “The Sound of Literature in Time.” My presentation was titled “Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage”. In the presentation, I show how Poemage, an open-source visualization tool for exploring the sonic topology…
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How to get a Research Assistant position
When I started my Ph.D. as a part-time student, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to accept my Teaching Assistant (TA) positions given my other responsibilities: a full-time 9-5 job, extracurriculars, course work and my own research, and spending time with my friends and families. At the time, there weren’t many opportunities…
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How to write a conference abstract
This year, I am the Graduate Placement Officer (GPO) representative for our graduate student committee, which generally means that I work with our GPO to organize and host professionalization workshops for graduate students. As part of this role, last semester I organized and led a workshop on how to write a conference abstract. Here are…
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Top 9 tips for incoming PhD students
Summer is winding down in Canada which, for anyone in academia, means we are gearing up for another school year—and welcoming another incoming cohort of PhD students. I’ve been reflecting on my first year in the program lately and have been speaking with some of my PhD friends about what we wish we’d known heading…
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Three things I’ve learned from the first semester in my part-time PhD
I’ve now completed one semester of somewhere between 15-20 semesters to come of my part-time PhD. With one semester under my academic belt, I’d like to reflect on how my first semester went and what I learned — both inside and out of the classroom.
Kiera Obbard 