In this blog post, I discuss some of these important points. These mainly include: 1). Managing time effectively, 2). Choosing a supervisor carefully, 3). Maintaining patient, 4) Remaining focused and finally 5). Assuming a lead role

In this blog post, I presented the crux of the comments from 65 members of the -‘PhD Support Group’. Based on my personal experience and the candid input from members of the group, this article is intended to provide some useful insight for the novice researchers and PhD scholars how to address such a situation.

The path to obtaining a doctoral degree efficiently is not obvious, and the guidelines in this regard can be elusive, unspoken and often unrealized. However, I believe, some of the important points discussed here in this blog post, if taken into serious consideration, will help you in completing your Ph.D. quickly.

This blog post covers the following important areas: 1. How to start writing the research proposal? 2. How to write a good research proposal?. 3. What is a research proposal? 4. Requirements of the research proposal 5. Purpose of the research proposal 6. Format of the research proposal

The main aim of this article is to share my insight with novice researchers and offer some useful guidance to the PhD scholars to anticipate the challenges in writing a PhD Research Proposal so that they may be able to complete this initial step positively and proactively. Using a snowball sampling approach, my discussion with around fifteen such Ph.D. scholars of different universities revealed the underlying reasons for the problem on hand.

In this blog post, I discuss some of the common expectations of the PhD scholars. Some of these proved to be true. However, most of them remained unrealistic, misplaced and highly romantic.