Networking tips for PhD students

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My website: phd.academy
Fundamentals of academic writing (online course): phd.academy/the-writing-course
Networking is one of the most important (and most often neglected) aspects of a PhD. It not only helps your research, it's crucial for your career...
In this video I share how to build your networking skills, from everyday habits to longer term strategies.
0:00 Introduction: The importance of networking for PhD students
2:15 Networking, mindset and impostor syndrome
3:10 Opening up to connections with others
4:03 Overcoming shyness and social anxiety
5:46 The way to be interesting to be other people is to be interested in them
7:41 Building a broader network: Making the most of conferences
9:52 Cold-emailing people you don't know
11:39 Networking if you're doing a remote PhD

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@user-fm2ub8by3v 9 ай бұрын

Great tips James thanks for the video! I'm still in the phase of writing my research proposal, and it's been a long journey so far (I work full time + have a family), but networking and specifically a cold email was what started my whole PhD journey over a year ago. Since then I've met so many people who are doing incredible things and have had such helpful perspective for me. The struggle I have is maintaining these relationships with how crazy life is (could also be said about my personal social relationships lol).

@preciousamaechi689 26 күн бұрын

Great tips Thank you…

@tawfiqezaz3455 9 ай бұрын

Useful

@edd60 2 ай бұрын

Hi Dr. James Kindly can you guide us on how to analysis an article and a book for thesis writing? This will be help to me and many more.

@jasminepercha561 9 ай бұрын

Thaks for the video a very needed topic can you provide books about it thank you

@ratnanirupama3368 9 ай бұрын

Hi! Dr. Hayton! Love the content of this video! Any tips to deal with supervisors/mentors who don't encourage collaborations/industry internships??

@James_Hayton 9 ай бұрын

Depends what you mean by "don't encourage"... what have they said about it? If they try to stop any communication with other students or academics, then in all honesty I would change supervisors or leave.

@muhammaduuu 9 ай бұрын

I have been waiting for your video about Ph.D and research perspectives on this rapid development of AI era. How is it going to change the research system and the academia. Your taught on this will be very interesting to everyone. Also you taught about using AI(like chat gpt) as an assistant for researchers should be a hot topic. Thank you.

@James_Hayton 9 ай бұрын

My thoughts are developing on this, but my general view is that whatever software you use (whether that's analytical software or AI), as a researcher you still need certain key skills. For example, I've long said that if you use statistical analysis software, you need to understand what it's doing on your behalf so you can interpret the results correctly or check for mistakes. The same goes with AI. If you use chat AI as an assistant, let's say to summarize a paper, you still need the ability to do that work yourself. I heard a recent interview ( I think with Kevin Kelly, but I'm not sure), who said that AI is like an intern- you can get it to do certain useful tasks but you have to check its work. If you're using AI to do everything, or you're using it to write your thesis for you, you shouldn't get a PhD.