General
Graduate School is A Means to a Job [START HERE]
A Letter to Past Graduate-Student Me
Professional Development During Your Doctoral Education
For Graduate Students In Any Field
10 Tips for Thriving, Not Just Surviving, In Graduate School
Getting & Working with a Mentor:
When It Comes to Mentoring, the More the Merrier
How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students
How Much Is Your Adviser’s Reputation Worth?
The Top 5 Traits of the Worst Advisors
How To Ask For a Recommendation
Managing Finances While in Graduate School:
How to Prioritize Financial Goals When You Can’t Do It All
Saving Money in Graduate School–With Help
Networking:
Write Network Emails Like a Pro
Core Competencies
Writing:
Writing a Literature Review: Six Steps to Get You from Start to Finish
How and Why to Write Collaboratively
My Writing Productivity Pipeline
Your Dissertation Begins In Your First Seminar
Ten Steps to Revising Your Article or Chapter
Teaching/Pedagogy:
Teaching Tips for Graduate Students
Reading/Taking Notes:
Take Notes with a Structured Template
Presenting Your Research:
Mastering the Art of Presenting
Preparing for Conference Presentations
How to Give a Fabulous Academic Presentation
Deciding to Go Public (e.g. Digital) With Your Work:
Gaining Leadership Experience:
Interested in Leadership Roles?
Managing Your Workflow/Work-Life Balance:
All Work and No Play Makes for a Dull Grad Student
Traits of the ‘Get It Done’ Personality: Laser Focus, Resilience, and True Grit
Get a Life PhD see especially, “What’s the Matter with a Forty-Hour Work Week For Academics?”
Productivity tips, tricks and hacks for academics (2015 edition)
Securing Funding
Securing Funding During Graduate School
Three Steps to Getting Grants for Graduate Students
Mentoring Others:
Mentoring as a Graduate Student
Equity in the Academy
General:
Conditionally Accepted: A Space for Scholars on The Margins of Academia
Support for Students of Color:
Black Scholars: Explaining Your Work May Mean Fighting For It
‘Playing the Game’ for Black Grad Students
The Racialization of Academic Funding
Support for Women of Color:
Black (Academic) Women’s Health: To Be in Context
Birthing Both a Baby and Ph.D. as a Woman of Color
Support for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illness(es):
Chronic illness and making an academic career/working life – unjustified judgements
On “Linguistics Identity:”
Inside the Ivory Tower: Can I Speak Spanish Here?
Support for LGBTQ Students:
‘Dear Forums…’: I’m a Closeted Trans Grad Student. Can I Come Out?
Support for 1st Gen/Working Class Students:
The confessions–and Confusions–of a First-Generation Scholar
Employment
Applying for Academic Jobs:
Making A Statement (Kelsky on Job Docs)
‘The Quick and Relatively Painless Guide to Your Academic Job Search’: Resources
Applying for Non-Academic/Alt-Ac Jobs:
Overexperienced and Overqualified?
Mental Health in the Academy
General Resources:
Academia and Mental Illness: A Preliminary List of Resources
Managing Mental Illness in Graduate School: Some Recommendations
How to Hope in Graduate School
The Secret Life of the Doctoral Student
On Self Care:
Simple Self-Love for Graduate Students
On Self Care, Balance, and Overwork in Academia
10 Tips for Success & Self-Care for Academics
Audre Lorde Thought of Self-Care as an “Act of Political Warfare.”
Managing Imposter Syndrome:
Impostor Syndrome is Definitely A Thing
Dealing with Rejection:
How to Survive Rejection Repeatedly
Faking it Until You Make It:
You are Probably Better Than You Think
On Not Comparing Yourself to Others:
