Often there is a lot of discussion on protecting the identity of our subjects when we do our research. The IRB focuses on the protection of both the subjects and the institution to a great extent, but what about the researcher? In the Terry Arendell paper about the difficulties she found in her interviews […]
John Garrison Marks is a PhD graduate student in History at Rice University. His dissertation compares the experiences of free people of color in two port cities of the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Find him on Twitter @johngmarks.
About a month ago, I got really lucky. My school sent out […]
This is a guest post by Kaitlin Gallagher, a PhD student in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo.
I’m not sure if this Grad Student phenomenon has a name yet, but I’ll give it one – “The mid-degree crisis”. You are about two years into your degree, but still two (or more) years […]
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From all of us at GradHacker: we hope you’re having a great start to the summer. We’ll be back in August!
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What mistakes did you make at your first conference? @yes_thattoo wants to know: bit.ly/2sRaPuo
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Heading to your first conference? @yes_thattoo reflects on what went well, and what didn’t. bit.ly/2tOQpzz
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