Doctoral students Grinding your teeth in your sleep. Palpitations and feelings of panic. Time pressure and stress can be part of doctoral candidate life from programme start to graduation. Lowering the bar and seeing “the threat" as a challenge are two tricks you can use along the way.

Art and science meet in comics form
Methodology Communicating research through comics is a way of bringing together science and art. The idea is to reach out to the general public, says organisational researcher Anna Jonsson.
Publish wisely to reach the right readership and to achieve your goals
Methodology At Malmö University, the library organises workshops to help doctoral candidates find the right journals to publish in. More and more people find the area confusing and wish to have a publishing strategy.

Make digital meetings more engaging
Methodology If we stop regarding digital meetings as different from face-to-face meetings, they will be both more efficient and more enjoyable, says Jens Edlund, a docent in spoken communication at KTH.