How to survive a physics PhD
Having recently completed her own PhD in physics, Pruthvi Mehta gives her five top tips for surviving your doctoral studies
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Pruthvi Mehta is a contributing columnist for Physics World and a patent scientist specializing in software and AI at EIP. She was previously a particle-physics PhD student at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her PhD research centred on the Tokai-to-Kamioka, Super-Kamiokande and Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiments based in Japan. She is also a contributor for POC2, a social enterprise which focuses on improving BAME diversity in STEM fields.
Having recently completed her own PhD in physics, Pruthvi Mehta gives her five top tips for surviving your doctoral studies
Pruthvi Mehta calls for PhD oral examinations to be standardized to make sure students are fairly assessed
Pruthvi Mehta says more support is needed for non‑native English-speaking scientists who can feel isolated and disadvantaged in what to them is an unfair system
Pruthvi Mehta says that the ongoing controversy over the Thirty Meter Telescope continues to stain the field