by anna_beaudry1 | Sep 15, 2022 | dissertation, external funding, Faith and the Academy, GPS workshops, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, guest post, life in grad school, pedagogy, PhD alt-career, wellness, writing
This post is based off of a podcast series that Dr. Julia Daniel did for the Baylor Graduate School back in early 2021. The first post covered the historic and economic reasons for the state of the academic job market and what applying for an academic job actually...
by becca_cassady | Sep 14, 2020 | external funding, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, guest post
Today we welcome guest writer Brooke Morris, a PhD student in the Biology Department who works as a Doctoral Administrative Fellow for the Graduate School and serves as the Present Your PhD Coordinator. Brooke was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2018....
by beth_barr | Jun 2, 2020 | Beth Allison Barr author, external funding
In the midst of a week filled with difficult news, Tyler Davis received some good news. Very good news, for a PhD candidate in Religion. Tyler learned he had become a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. His dissertation project, “Spirit in the...
by beth_barr | Jun 3, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, external funding
Getting external funding as a graduate student, especially a nationally recognized fellowship or grant, can launch a career. It can provide financial security (as they usually pay more than university assistantships), comfortable funding for dissertation research,...
