Doctorate degree is expensive for any individual who aspire to go for it. Here are some important things to plan during your Ph.D. journey. These plans will make your work more fruitful.
Plan for Conferences-
Plan to attend at least 2 national and 2 international academic conferences during your Ph.D. When you present your work in front of the subject experts of your topic, you gain beneficial insights and information on your topic. Such session improves your work standards. To boost your confidence, start with a national conference in your own city or nearby area then move for international conferences around the globe.
Nowadays conferences also provide paper development sessions or small workshops for the same. These activities will develop your research intent and would support you in paper development also.
Workshops/Seminars-
Workshops on your research subject, research methodology, and different statistical tools application should be on your planning board. In initial days of your work choose appropriate subject seminars. Seminars where subject experts share their in-depth views on your research topic. In second stage, opt for workshops where experts provides you hands on experience with the tools and processes involved for your study. You will not get any custom made seminars or workshops, you have to select from the available one to custom your desired requirements.
Research Paper Publication-
Research paper publication is one of the important thing to plan during your Ph.D. journey. Once your work get publicize it became authentic and become available for other researchers to review. This adds in to your citation index/ research performance as well as in future prospects of your research wok.
You should target for at least 5 quality papers from your doctoral work step by step. You can develop research paper on Literature review of your study variables. If you are developing a new scale, paper could be prepared on scale development. Generalization of your chosen established scale from past studies could be another topic for research paper. Pilot study for your research could be converted in to a good paper. Case study could also be developed as while working you will come across observations and issues of a particular field of your study. Paper on initial relationship between study variables and other variables nearby to your study (they might not be in your study but may act as extraneous variables) is also a good idea for an authentic paper.
For publication choose appropriate Journals of your concerned field. Check their formats and requirements before finally shaping your paper to save your time.
Book Reviews-
It is very common thing to study books during doctoral work. After going through old famous books always keep an eye on new book coming in market related to your field. New books upgrades might help in your study. When you read these books don’t waste your work, write book reviews for good journals or academic magazines. Knowledge of past literature with new advancements will definitely give you an edge over others. This exercise will add one more credit in your resume and see you haven’t done something new for publication. Such exercise will make your research work and publication parallel and it will save your time also.
General Articles and Editorials for Magazines and Newspapers-
Research work needs deep navigation to problems and alternatives available for improvement. The knowledge of possibilities associated with your topic makes you well known with the new facts and figures. Present your findings and perspectives on your topic in the form of newspaper or magazine article. With experience and adequate knowledge of language you can also write editorials. Factual information presented with your mature perspective will make your editorial interesting for readers. In this way your work will bring one more star to your credentials and a new experience for you as well.
Development of a Book through Ph.D.-
Your thesis could be converted in to a fruitful book. For this you need to plan from the vary starting as chapters with a book in your mind will make your work easy for future. Thesis publication is a common practice but to make a thesis an interesting book is not easy. To move step by step in the manner that your doctoral thesis will first come up with all the university requirements and later on take the shape of an authentic book is a planned effort.
Hope above mentioned things to plan during your Ph.D. degree will bring flying colors of achievements and experience to you!!