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Time Management

Get Personal with your Productivity

To be an effective writer you need to pull together three elements. Firstly, you have to know and understand the direction and meaning of your writing so that you can work towards a goal. Secondly, you have to be inspired to write; to have motivation, passion and enthusiasm to keep you going through those long stints in front of the computer. Finally, you need to be productive, without productivity you cannot achieve your goals and undermine your emotional attachment to your piece of work. Despite its importance, productiveness can be a bit of a sticking point, especially because the concept itself has been somewhat overused. It is now something that everyone strives to achieve without truly knowing how to achieve it. I think the key to unlocking the secret of productivity is in its individualism. Each and every person has different expectations of what they can achieve and eac... read more

Simple Steps to Master your use of Time

Time management entails more than keeping a calendar, however. It is requires identifying your obligations, carefully considering their importance, and making choices about how to use your time. read more

Yours Transferably: Staying on Track - Time Management for PhD Students

Article from Science Careers [http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/] written by Phil Dee looking at how to complete a PhD successfully and efficiently.(Awaiting resource permission) read more

How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method

Blog post: From Academic Productivity [http://www.academicproductivity.com/]. Having recently completed a PhD, I will share with you three indispensable nuggets of advice for how to get the monster vanquished: use hard deadlines, soft deadlines, and the Martini Method. With a small amount of imagination these can be applied to any large project. read more

PhD Time Management

Blog post: Written as a report on obsessiveness in relation to PhDs and juggling many time commitments. read more

Books for Students on Time Management

List of books on aspects of time management including specific postgraduate titles such as 'The Postgraduate Researchers' Handbook'. [from Learn Higher http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk] read more

Improving Time Management Skills

Presentation with transcript with the objectives: - To increase awareness of your attitude toward time. - To learn to plan time by setting priorities. - To identify signs of poor time management. - To recognize the benefits of time management read more

How to write your PhD Thesis in record time and still keep your sanity while you do it (1)

This is a set of three videos showing a lecture that about how to complete your thesis efficiently, avoid procrastination and get to the end result fast. read more

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