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  1. Hi everyone! I'll cut straight to the point: I'm interested in collecting a group of PhD students with whom I could have a series of mutually beneficial seminars/unofficial mini "conferences". I was envisioning e.g. the first session to be one where all participants present their research topics, aims, intended time tables, etc, and we'd all give each other feedback and thus provide peer support. In the second session we could discuss our RQ's or introductions or the literary positioning. And so on, so forth - I'm definitely open to suggestions on what to discuss in each session. This series of meetings would include giving and receiving feedback on your papers and presentations, sharing invitations to open-access seminars (e.g. at my university I co-run a methodology based seminar series). The goal would be for everyone to 1. improve with the help of feedback, 2. get involved in proactively giving feedback, and 3. expand our academic networks. We could also discuss how to prevent idea-theft in case there are participants with focus areas that overlap too strongly. I was thinking that we could have these sessions via zoom, and set regular times (e.g. once a month, or once every other month). If anyone is interested, let me know!
  2. Yeah. How this goes down in practice may differ from university to university. From my experience majority of the PhD students I interact with (and of course myself as well) have one "main supervisor" from our own university, and then a second supervisor from another university. So I'd say that depending on where you are, not only is it okay, but it's fairly common too.
  3. I wouldn't really have anything to tell my younger self regarding interviews: they went well. What I would tell my younger self however is: read more. MUCH more. Read every philosophy book you find, and every book you find on theoretical takes in business. Read, read, read, and when you're not reading, get that audible and listen to books on those same topics. Read Foucault and Callon and Heidegger and Smith and everyone whose name is mentioned even in passing. Just. READ. I graduated at the top of my class with a M.Sc., got selected as track representative AND student ambassador, and got accepted into a PhP program 2 months after I wrapped up my M.Sc. I thought I was so well-read and smart. I was not. Not one bit. Not at all. What's well-read on a master's level is nothing but woefully inadequate at a doctorate level. So that'd be my advice: READ.
  4. BeanWater

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    This depends on the university. The university where I'm doing my PhD at does not have a compulsory TA-ship (I went for it anyway, but I didn't have to. I applied for it, and was then "matched" with a professor who had applied for a TA at the time. Either one of us could have declined at any point, but we didn't and so we started working together. Before I started my TA-ship, we discussed my duties, the pay I would get, and the hours I was expected to work per semester. If I went overtime, I was required to mark down the "overtime hours" for which I was compensated). A friend of mine in a partner university has the TA-ship as a compulsory part of her PhD experience, and to my understanding she doesn't get paid for it. In some universities they offer the TA-ship as a way to cover for study expenses, but I have no personal experience in that.
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