Doing a qualitative PhD asks a lot of you.
Put your time and effort into the things that will actually move your PhD forward.
Hi, I'm Dr Elizabeth Yardley. I help qualitative PhD researchers make sense of the messy bits nobody really teaches you how to navigate.
What do you need help with now?
“I need to understand why my PhD feels like this.”
Things you thought you'd figured out suddenly feel complicated again. You're rewriting, going backwards and wondering whether any of this is normal. You’re thinking, “Is it just me?!”.
It’s not just you - qualitative PhD research can feel very weird, because there are unwritten rules that aren’t often explained. The Hidden Curriculum reveals them.
“I know what I'm struggling with. I just can't seem to sort it out.”
Maybe you've lost the thread of your research. Your literature review is going in circles. You're unsure whether your analysis is good enough. Or you know what you found but can't work out what to say about it.
Thankfully there is a process for making sense of what you already know and working out what to do next. The PhD Survival Guides help you do exactly that.
“Intellectual loneliness - that’s my PhD in two words.”
There are some things about doing a PhD that people who aren't doing one just don't understand. Working on your PhD can start to feel very lonely, but being around other people who understand can really help.
Momentum is a membership community for qualitative PhD researchers who want somewhere to figure hard things out alongside people who get it.