COACHING AND COURSES TO HELP YOU GET THROUGH YOUR PHD CONFIDENTLY & SUCCESSFULLY
If you are a PhD student struggling to find your way in academia and you want to:
Define your project
Know how to develop your research questions, form your research plan and write your proposal
Know the steps to follow
Get control of your project, build your research skills, get good data and discover something new
Gain confidence
Overcome perfectionism, indecision and impostor syndrome, and deal with the unexpected
Develop your academic writing skills
Write your thesis, papers or literature reviews clearly, quickly and with confidence
Get things finished
Escape the cycle of endless drafts and unfinished projects. Build the habit of finishing what you start. No more "70% complete" chapters!
I help PhD students to get through their PhDs without the extreme stress that so many experience. I tailor coaching programmes to individuals to help get your project unstuck and teach specific skills and principles to ensure you can carry on independently with confidence. I also run courses and provide resources to help with the most common PhD issues, such as writing, time management, literature reviews and more.
How it works
Through coaching and courses that help you to clarify, focus and structure your work and to develop your confidence as well as your research and writing skills.
1. Understand exactly what's required (and what isn't)
Each course is designed to help you understand exactly what's required in a PhD, why it's difficult and how it differs from everything you've done before. By breaking down each of the unique requirements and challenges of a PhD, we can then use that new understanding as a foundation for everything that follows.
2. Build your skills and confidence
Learn how to get really, really good at research and writing. Because a PhD requires new skills, you have to structure your work in a way that helps you train those skills quickly.
3. Be decisive and finish things
Because there's no syllabus to follow, you need a framework for making your own decisions about what to do (and what not to do) with confidence. You can then work on tasks to completion rather than just creating more unfinished work.
What do you get?
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About James Hayton
I completed my own PhD in physics in 2007. It was painful until I made some simple changes to the way I worked...
After 3 and a half years of research, I wrote my entire thesis in just 3 months, passed my defence with zero corrections, and really enjoyed the final phase of my PhD.
I've been coaching PhD students full-time since 2010
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The (brief) story of my PhD
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