Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, on est hors série avec un spécial Podcasthon 2023, où je te présente une association qui m'inspire - PhDOOC. Si tu veux savoir de quoi peut avoir l'air un MOOC sur les carrières créé et mené par et pour les doctorants, rejoins-moi dans cette conversation avec une des fondatrices, Adeline Bossu, et trois bénévoles, Lauriane Baylé, Marina Briand et Maya Anderson-Gonzalez! Bonne écoute! Créée en Septembre 2016, PhDOOC est une association loi 1901 dont le but est daccompa...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 31
This week on the show, I'm bringing you yet another treasure from the vault - my Season 2 conversation with Shaz Zamore about their vision for the future of academia. During my conversation with Shaz, I got a glimpse at what that change can look like – we dove into the current diversity and inclusivity challenges facing academia today and into how addressing them can change the face of science and research. Enjoy! What you’ll learn about in this episode: Current roadblocks to diversity in univer...
Mar 23, 2023•56 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Burnout. You probably know someone who has gone through it, or you may have burnt out, yourself. Academic burnout is real and often taboo, and this week on the podcast, I am talking with a coach specializing in helping researchers avoid it and manage it - Özgün Ünver, form Mind Your Own Revisions.During our conversation, Özgün shares about her burnout during the PhD and postdoc and her lessons learned from her personal experience and from the experiences coaching academics.Reach out to me or to ...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Last week on Papa PhD, I shared my recent conversation with Danielle De La Mare, creator and host of the Self-Compassionate Professor podcast. This week, I'm over-the-moon happy to have an episode of the Self-Compassionate Professor as a feed drop on Papa PhD - a conversation about perfectionism in academia with Dr. Isabeau Iqbal. Reach out to me or to Danielle using the links below, if you have any feedback or any questions for us. While you're here, I'll take the opportunity to announce that P...
Mar 09, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 28
How well adjusted do you feel you are to your current career ? This week on Papa PhD, I'm sharing my recent conversation with Danielle De La Mare, creator and host of the Self-Compassionate Professor podcast, about her approach to promotion career wellness in the academic community. This is an exciting episode for me, because it's a collaboration with the Self-Compassionate Professor. Danielle will be publishing an interview I gave her a few weeks ago onw day before this one goes live, so I stro...
Mar 02, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 27
It can be difficult projecting yourself into the future and setting goals when you are fully invested physically and emotionally with your PhD. Overwhelm and overwork are terms that come up frequently in conversation with PhD researchers, independently of their domain of research. In this Papa PhD interview, I talk with career coach Kimberly Duong about her post-PhD experience and about her approach to helping academics successfully navigating their PhD journey. Listen to the end and you will le...
Feb 23, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Are you ready for what comes after getting your degree? Or after your second or third postdoc? How does the job market treat PhDs today? These are questions I had no answers to when I was finishing my PhD. My guest this week - Ashley Ruba, PhD - has taken up the personal mission to keep asking tough questions to the post-PhD community, after living a transformational transition from her postdoc position to a working as a UX researcher for Meta Reality Labs. Reach out to me or to Ashley using the...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Welcome to another collab episode of the PhD Dojo with The 2nd Lab. VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLcy6gYJ9s In this new PhD Dojo episode, Gad Sabbatier and I share our advice on something that is a challenge for a lot of us - time management. Do you struggle doing all you want to fit in a day? In a week? Then this episode is for you, as Gad Sabbatier and I share our short- and long-term strategies to help you avoid feeling buffeted by the passage of time during your PhD. While you're h...
Feb 09, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Are you preparing to write a paper? Do you get anxious, not knowing what the outcome is going to be of this long process? Today, I'm sharing with you my conversation with Anna Clemens, whose specialty is to coach researchers on how to write for journal articles. During our conversation, Anna talked about how to systematize article writing, she talked about the importance of how to communicate with editors, and she also talked about what mindset to have while writing, even if English is not your ...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 23
This week on the show, I'm sharing a story of resilience and steadfastness in career building with my guest, Bryan Quoc Le.During our conversation, Bryan shares his journey from a PhD in chemistry to being self-employed as a consultant in the food industry space.I got great feedback about this interview during our live recording, so I hope you enjoy it, too! Reach out to Me or to Bryan using the links below, if you have any feedback or any questions for us.While you're here, I'll take the opport...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 22
This week, I'm sharing with you a conversation about a side of the post-PhD experience that is kind of a blind spot for me - the place of social science graduates in the tech space.To talk about this, I had the pleasure of having a conversation with Victoria (Tory) Wobber, growth and leadership coach and consultant.While you're here, I'll take the opportunity to announce that Papa PhD has joined the Podcast 2.0 initiative and is now set up to receive boosts from you, the listener! A boost is a v...
Jan 19, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Welcome to another collab episode of the PhD Dojo with The 2nd Lab. While you're here, I'll take the opportunity to announce that Papa PhD has joined the Podcast 2.0 initiative and is now set up to receive boosts from you, the listener! A boost is a value for value (V4V) contribution in Satoshis (or Sats), the smallest existing Bitcoin denomination. All received boosts will get a shoutout on the show, in appreciation for your support. Please check out the Fountain Podcast App that supports Podca...
Jan 12, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 20
This week, on the first Papa PhD episode of 2023, I am bringing you an incredibly insightful conversation about the impostor phenomenon in academia and beyond with Marc Reid, PhD, author of You Are Not a Fraud - A Scientist's Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon. Imposter feelings are ubiquitous in graduate school and throughout your career, especially after pivots into a new position or a new space. Marc has put a lot of thought into this question and was generous enough to come on the show to shar...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 19
In this week on the show, I'm bringing you another treasure from the vault - my Season 2 conversation with Krishna Kadiyala about her experience as a woman in the STEM space, and in particular about her decision to have children during the PhD. While you're here, I'll take the opportunity to let you know that Papa PhD has joined the Podcasting 2.0 initiative and is now set up to receive boosts from you, the listener! A boost is a value for value (V4V) contribution in Satoshis (or Sats), the smal...
Dec 29, 2022•54 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Tu aimes Papa PhD ? Laisse-moi un commentaire > ici < - une courte phrase suffit ! Et inclus ton identifiant Twitter – comme ça je pourrai te remercier personnellement ! Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, je t'apporte un des épisodes les plus écoutés de la saison 2 de Papa PhD - ma conversation avec Anne Bonlarron, fondatrice de Scienceo. Entre autres, on a parlé CIFRE, être expatrié et arrêt de thèse. On a aussi parlé de ce que fait Anne aujourd'hui, à la croisée des chemins entre la recherche e...
Dec 22, 2022•52 min•Season 4Ep. 17
This week on Papa PhD and to mark the end of the year, I share with you the first of a series of three of the most popular episodes of the show since the launch, in 2019. In this early conversation with Adriana Bankston, we covered her experience going through graduate school, but also how she started preparing for a career pivot early on. We then went deeper into the specifics of entering the science policy space, and of how Adriana navigated that transition after her PhD in biochemistry. Adria...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 16
This week on Papa PhD, I'm bringing you an expert on how to improve your public speaking skills - Neil Thompson of TeachTheGeek.com. If you want to get better a presenting in front of different audiences, get a pen and paper and join us on this great Papa PhD conversation! While you're here, I'll take the opportunity to announce that Papa PhD has joined the Podcast 2.0 initiative and is now set up to receive boosts from you, the listener! A boost is a value for value (V4V) contribution in Satosh...
Dec 08, 2022•41 min•Season 4Ep. 15
La semaine où je célébrais le 200e épisode de Papa PhD, j’ai eu le plaisir d’interviewer un invité d’honneur - Rémi Quirion, le scientifique en chef du Québec - pour entendre son point de vue sur le doctorat et sur l’avenir des PhD sur le marché du travail.Durant l'enregistrement j'ai posé à Rémi les questions que vous m'avez envoyées et celles que ont été partagées en direct, sur Linkedin ou sur YouTube. Et Rémi à répondu à toutes mes questions, de la pertinence du doctorat en 2022 aux programm...
Dec 01, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 14
This week on Papa PhD, I'm sharing the story of someone I've had the pleasure to mentor during her PhD to non-academic job transition - Anushka Khasnobish.I want to thank Anushka for suggesting to share this testimonial on the show and for the chance to reflect on a string of conversations that took place over a number of months and to make sense of them in retrospect.While you're here, I'll take the opportunity to announce that Papa PhD has joined the Podcast 2.0 initiative and is now set up to...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, une enrichissante conversation avec Claudine Pierron de l'APEC et avec Marc Chevalier, ami du podcast et champion de la promotion du succès professionnel des PhD.Au programme, un retour sur l'évènement Cap PhD, qui a eu lieu en 2021, et l'annonce de Cap Docteurs, la mouture revue et améliorée qui aura lieu les 23 et 24 novembre 2022.Ça t'intéresse ? Inscris-toi gratuitement ici : PapaPhD.com/capdocteurs VIDÉO https://youtu.be/VFRjU4K5cUIC'est quoi, Cap Docteurs ?C'est...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 12
200 episodes… I couldn’t have imagined I’d come this far when I launched back in 2019, but a little over 3 years in, it feels almost surreal.If you’re new to the show, welcome, and enjoy all the content! If you’re a long time fan, thank you for dropping by week after week! And if you want to show me some love, go to buymeacoffee.com/papaphd and donate. ????Every little bit helps!Again thank you. In this week’s amazing episode with Terence Milstead, he lays out his complete blueprint for a succes...
Nov 10, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Do you struggle to sit down and write your thesis? Is the process painful to you? Then join me in this interview a specialist, a "thesis whisperer" of sorts - Martha Boeglin of Scriptoria. During my conversation with Martha, we discuss this inevitable, yet often gruesome task that is thesis writing, and Martha shares her know-how and a number of techniques and strategies to make the exercise a pleasant and successful one. VIDEO https://youtu.be/Wu_N2gvWz6U?sub_confirmation=1 When she wanted to w...
Nov 03, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 10
On this episode of Papa PhD, I bring you my recent conversation about science communication with Albertha Joseph-Alexander and about how scicomm has impacted her researcher career. If you are curious about science content creation and about the scicomm space, Albertha shares her journey and her lessons learned, so far. Happy listening! VIDEO https://youtu.be/yMjkOk00SRA?sub_confirmation=1 Dr. Albertha Joseph-Alexander has a PhD in Plant Science from the University of the West Indies, St. Augusti...
Oct 27, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, je t'apporte ma récente conversation avec Julie Lopes, accompagnatrice de doctorant.e.s.La thématique - profiter du doctorat pour mieux se connaître et profiter de mieux se connaître pour avoir un trajet plus aligné et plus productif pendant la thèse.En fin d'épisode, Julie nous fait expérimenter un exercice de recentrage qu'elle utilise avec les personnes qu'elle accompagne. Si tu as besoin de calmer ton corps et ton esprit, ne le manque surtout pas ! VIDÉO https://y...
Oct 20, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 8
On this episode of Papa PhD, I bring you my conversation with returning guest David Giltner about opportunities and obstacles PhDs face when accessing influence and leadership positions in organizations outside academia.David Giltner has covered this and other questions around career readiness for PhDs in his new book "It's a Game, Not a Formula: How to Succeed as a Scientist Working in the Private Sector". VIDEO https://youtu.be/e-AEp6aIk4Q?sub_confirmation=1David Giltner has spent more than tw...
Oct 13, 2022•53 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Welcome to another collab episode of the PhD Dojo with The 2nd Lab. VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0fpl4BXZ0 This week on the PhD Dojo, Gad Sabbatier and I answer another great question from 2nd Lab mentee Matt Campea who asks: "What are some of the biggest mistakes people make when looking for a job outside of academia?" Thank you, Matt, for bringing up this question. Blind spots do exist and are they can can be difficult obstacles to surpass, unless someone points them out to us. Gad ...
Oct 06, 2022•33 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Welcome to Season 4 of Papa PhD! VIDEO https://youtu.be/1hemLxGgARM Kweli Zukeri was born and raised in Falls Church, Va. He has a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication and minor in social entrepreneurship from UNC at Chapel Hill, as well as an M.S. in Psychology (2018) and Ph.D. (2021) in Developmental Psychology from Howard University. Both his master thesis and dissertation focused on exploring the impact of African-centered school-based programming on American African student racial and cu...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, on parle de cette aventure qu'est de quitter son pays pour son doctorat. Avec mon invitée, Charlotte Hendryckx, on explore les choses à faire et à ne pas faire pour en faire une expérience positive et dans laquelle vous pourrez vous épanouir en tant que personne et en tant que jeune chercheuse ou chercheur. VIDÉO https://youtu.be/A7Zk8_bCWO0Neuropsychologue belge formée à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Charlotte Hendryckx réalise depuis septembre 2019 un doctorat Re...
Sep 22, 2022•50 min•Season 4Ep. 4
VIDEO Welcome to another collab episode of the PhD Dojo with The 2nd Lab.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2dmV8D9jwThis week on the PhD Dojo, Gad Sabbatier and I answer a question from 2nd Lab mentee Romane Oliverio who asks: "What are the accessible careers outside R&D?".Thank you, Romane, for a great question that allowed Gad and I to dive deep into the great variety of positions open to PhDs in the job market, from medical writing, to patent officer, to business-related careers.What abou...
Sep 15, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Cette semaine sur Papa PhD, j'ai le plaisir de vous apporter une exploration avec mon invitée - Émilie Deschênes - sur les défis que présente le passage à l'enseignement, après le doctorat. Pendant notre conversation, nous avons aussi abordé des sujets plus larges dans le contexte de la carrière académique et, en particulier, du doctorat. Un parcours atypique et un regard lucide sur le parcours professoral - merci, Émilie ! VIDÉO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPCZBmDJHI?sub_confirmation=1 Émi...
Sep 08, 2022•44 min•Season 4Ep. 2
