Why is this workshop?
Many students enroll in PhD not knowing why, therefore they suffer a lot when they are faced with challenges they never expect. In this workshop, I give some quick advice to help existing, new, and prospective students set their “mindset” in this long, serious, and very important journey. I clarify some important issues that should be considered early on in your path towards a “valuable” degree.
What is this workshop?
If you are a PhD student, planning to be soon, or even thinking about it, you must have so many questions about the PhD journey. In this workshop, we discuss what “mentality” you should have as a PhD student (especially in the Arab world) and try to answer the questions that should concern you. Among the questions we discuss are: How should you “think” as a PhD student? Why bother doing it? What should be your motivations and objectives? Is it all about “generating publications”? What makes your “certificate” really valuable? Are failures “a must” in PhD? What skills should you have to be successful in PhD? Is being “smart” the most needed trait? How can you build a supportive environment for your study?
Where?
I have organized this workshop several times so far:
- In Arabic at Birzeit University (online) in Mar 2022.
- In Arabic as an online open workshop in Mar 2022.
- In English at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in September 2020.
- In Arabic at Egypt Scholars Inc. (مؤسسة علماء مصر) on July 25th 2020.
- In Arabic at Phi Research and Innovation Summit (PRIS’20) on July 4th 2020.
- In English at Qatar University in November 2019.
