Research Tips

The first day I met my supervisor, Dr Xavier Bellekens, he said, “your PhD is a marathon and not a sprint’’. …

Structuring information comprehensively is essential in simple day-to-day activities. If you prepare a dish but forget to add salt, the dish already will not taste that good. The same goes for any challenge you take on. Logical structure helps clarify your ideas, improves understanding, and brings all the points together…

1. Use your library if you have one! If you are affiliated with a university, you probably have free library access to the full text of millions of research articles. The library will have subscribed to these journals on your behalf. The smartest thing you can do for accessing research articles is familiarize yourself with your own library. …

7 sources for successful historical fiction Starting research for a historical novel can be daunting: there is simply so much available material. …

Remember this? ‘…there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.’ Donald…