Your PhD Coach

How to get the PhD experience you want

Gill, Jeff and Medd, Will (2013) Your PhD Coach. Humanities . Open University Press, Berkshire UK. ISBN 978-033524767-7

Abstract / Summary

This book is your own personal PhD coach. It’s not just about surviving your PhD, it’s about thriving in the experience. Taking a unique self-coaching approach, this book will enable you to understand how to navigate your way through the various challenges posed by PhD study with resilience, self-sufficiency, and the determination to succeed.
Each chapter contains self-coaching challenges so that you can discover what works for you and generate fresh ideas to enable you to move forwards, banish self-doubt, bust procrastination, and realise your full potential to make the most of your PhD experience.

Your PhD Coach will enable you to:

Build resilience and self-leadership
Challenge yourself to be focused and achieve aspiring goals
Find the right balance and nurture stronger relationships
Develop your confidence, creativity and motivation
Using a coaching philosophy that helps you realize your own solutions and develop your own strategies to move forward, the book is packed full of techniques, tips and tricks applicable to a wide range of circumstances both within the PhD process and beyond - an essential book for all those taking on the challenge of PhD research.

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