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  • Thank you!

    I’ve had a great time with this blog over the past 6 months—my half-year-iversary is coming up this weekend on Thursday! When I began, I…

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  • Kris Gies, Publisher’s Representative, Transition Q&A

    Kris Gies earned his PhD in history from the University of Guelph. He is a publisher’s representative at the University of Toronto Press. Follow him @KrisGies.…

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  • Post-PhD magazine dreams

    I want to start a magazine. It will be called Post-PhD and it will be beautifully designed, wonderfully written, and will have inspiring, surprising, and…

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  • Parker Palmer: “I can’t not do it”

    Here’s what Parker Palmer, a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, recently said about his post-PhD journey: I did a PhD at…

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  • Coach training

    I started coach training last week. I’m doing the Foundations course from Mentor Coach, a training program aimed at “helping professionals” and rooted in positive…

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  • Brenda Bethman, Center Director, Transition Q&A

    Brenda Bethman earned her PhD in modern German studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. She’s now the director of the Women’s Center and the…

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  • Tina Seelig’s post-PhD transition

    I came across this recently: Soon after earning my PhD in neuroscience, my sights were set on working in a startup biotechnology company. The only…

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  • Self-help for PhDs (by PhDs)

    During my undergrad I worked part-time at a Chapters bookstore in Ottawa, a big-box retailer similar to Barnes & Noble. My area of the store…

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  • Peter Konieczny, Website Editor, Transition Q&A

    Peter Konieczny earned his MA in history and MLS from the University of Toronto. He is now the librarian at Oxford College and the editor…

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  • Talking about Twitter, learning about myself

    I recently had a couple teleconferences with women entrepreneurs. The topic was Twitter. I offered to talk to them because I had a flash of…

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