Productivity, achieving goals, overcoming obstacles and handling rejection.

Those four concepts in the title of this blog are talked about and experienced regularly in academia and during a… Read more Productivity, achieving goals, overcoming obstacles and handling rejection.

Doing a PhD in isolation

As you may know, or have experienced, doing a PhD can be a hard slog. It involves long hours, juggling… Read more Doing a PhD in isolation

Thanks to a great scheme at my university (UNSW) I was able to get some funding in 2019 to fly… Read more Taking on an international conference… alone!

In the few years of doing my PhD I have had many opportunities to present my research, both to the… Read more Presentations

A particular aim for one of the chapters of my PhD is to answer the question: Are plants flowering in… Read more My time spent with Sydney wildflowers

It took months of planning, a season of fieldwork and a full year of glasshouse work to finish the first… Read more Running a large experiment

As I approach the middle of the second year of my PhD I can finally understand what fellow post-grad students… Read more [Attempting to] Beat the Second year PhD blues

Tasmania was the final destination on the long list of fieldwork for my PhD (see my previous post about all… Read more Tasmania

5 months, 5 states/territories, 4434km of flights, 9695km of driving and many hours of bush-bashing to collect a total of… Read more Oh, the places you’ll go! (when you do a PhD in ecology)

In September, I volunteered on a third year field course for five days. The trip was at Kioloa Coastal Field… Read more Kioloa and the importance of undergraduate fieldtrips