PDG Blog

Below you can find the PDG Blog. These blog posts feature reflections and insights from our PGRs as they embark on their research journeys.

Tips for managing your PhD

Tips for managing your PhD

Olga Tereszkowska-Kaminska shares a few tips that she learnt during her PhD to balance a good work-life balance.

How to Survive and Thrive in the 3-Minute Thesis Competition

How to Survive and Thrive in the 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Olga Tereszkowska-Kaminska writes about her experience during the 3MT Competition 2026 submission process and the competition itself.

A Week in the Life of a PhD Student in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

A Week in the Life of a PhD Student in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Haya Ali Genawi shares a week-in-the-life blog, highlighting her research on women’s hunger, denial, and their influence on Victorian femininity and social class in late nineteenth-century literature.

XJTLU-UoL-XJTU Postgraduate Research Joint Conference

XJTLU-UoL-XJTU Postgraduate Research Joint Conference

Malika Ben Kahla, Izzy Kevan, and Kate Williams were co-leads of the PGR-DevNet (now called the PDG) from 2023 to 2025. Here, they share their reflections on their trip to the first XJTLU-UoL-XJTU Postgraduate Research Joint Conference in Suzhou, China.