Doing a PhD is damn difficult.
Especially when nobody explains half the stuff you're apparently supposed to know.
If you’re thinking, “Is it just me?!” - welcome to my corner of the PhD internet!
A PhD is brain-boggling enough without having to translate the “academic” advice out there into normal-person language.
Maybe you've been told that your work needs “more depth” or you need to be more critical, strengthen your methodology, develop your argument…
Lovely. BUT HOW?!
Or maybe you’ve been told to simply, “Read more”. GREAT. Thanks for that, so helpful. 🙄
Hi, I'm Dr Elizabeth Yardley. I help qualitative PhD researchers make sense of the bits nobody thought to explain properly – so you can spend less time wondering what on earth you're supposed to be doing and more time actually doing it.
What do you need help with now?
“Tell me the unwritten rules of a PhD.”
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.
£20
“I know WHAT to do but I’m not sure HOW to do it.”
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.
£65 - £95
“LONELY. I am so very lonely right now!”
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.
£22.50/month | £225/year