Sep 29, 2026 · 22 min · 7 segments
Dr Ruth Currie from the UWS Doctoral College joins Linda and the team for this episode all about postgraduate research. This could be useful listening for anybody thinking of doing or just starting a…
Ruth CurrieGuest
Linda RichesHostCarlyHostNikosGuest
Um, we were gonna talk a little bit about moving from undergraduate to post-graduate.
Do you recognize those feelings? Is, is that kind of what you hear from a lot of students, Ruth?
And, um, I don't know enough about your research yet, but I'm really excited to hear more, and I hope if post-graduate researchers are listening that, um, you let out a wee whoop to yourself when you heard that, uh, Nikos had submitted their thesis [laughs] because it's a huge achievement, and it, it is a big thing.
it brings up loads of emotions and, and I think that that's, you know, that's very common when, when you're doing some kind of post-graduate work, a doctorate, for example.
You know, you feel, feel a lot of big feelings a lot of the time, and it's really important that we've got some support in the university that you can access to, um, to help you with those and, and be part of a peer community where you can talk about where you're at and, and get some tales from the field really that, um, that can support you to, to recognize that you're not alone.
And there's also a huge amount of joy in doing this, right? You're the first person that's gonna be asking this question at this time, using this particular method, and I personally think that's very exciting and joyful.
A big shift, for example, if you've, um, you had g- come from, from a, a taught course or, um, maybe you'd been in industry for a while and you're coming to... back to higher education to, to do some kind of doctorate.
It has been, uh, five full years now.
I started in 20, uh, 21, and yeah, I think it's nearly five years.
And Ruth, that's not uncommon, and some people study for longer than that as well, don't they? It's, it's...
Um, we were gonna talk a little bit about moving from undergraduate to post-graduate.
Do you recognize those feelings? Is, is that kind of what you hear from a lot of students, Ruth?
And, um, I don't know enough about your research yet, but I'm really excited to hear more, and I hope if post-graduate researchers are listening that, um, you let out a wee whoop to yourself when you heard that, uh, Nikos had submitted their thesis [laughs] because it's a huge achievement, and it, it is a big thing.
it brings up loads of emotions and, and I think that that's, you know, that's very common when, when you're doing some kind of post-graduate work, a doctorate, for example.
You know, you feel, feel a lot of big feelings a lot of the time, and it's really important that we've got some support in the university that you can access to, um, to help you with those and, and be part of a peer community where you can talk about where you're at and, and get some tales from the field really that, um, that can support you to, to recognize that you're not alone.
And there's also a huge amount of joy in doing this, right? You're the first person that's gonna be asking this question at this time, using this particular method, and I personally think that's very exciting and joyful.
A big shift, for example, if you've, um, you had g- come from, from a, a taught course or, um, maybe you'd been in industry for a while and you're coming to... back to higher education to, to do some kind of doctorate.
It has been, uh, five full years now.
I started in 20, uh, 21, and yeah, I think it's nearly five years.
And Ruth, that's not uncommon, and some people study for longer than that as well, don't they? It's, it's...
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