{"id":98,"date":"2020-09-09T07:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/?p=98"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:04:38","slug":"what-it-means-to-be-a-phd-student-workshop-at-hbku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/2020\/09\/09\/what-it-means-to-be-a-phd-student-workshop-at-hbku\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat it means to be a PhD Student\u201d: A Workshop at HBKU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-102 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/files\/2020\/11\/HBKU_What-it-means-to-be-a-PhD-Student_Workshop_Sep-2020-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/files\/2020\/11\/HBKU_What-it-means-to-be-a-PhD-Student_Workshop_Sep-2020-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/files\/2020\/11\/HBKU_What-it-means-to-be-a-PhD-Student_Workshop_Sep-2020-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/files\/2020\/11\/HBKU_What-it-means-to-be-a-PhD-Student_Workshop_Sep-2020-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/files\/2020\/11\/HBKU_What-it-means-to-be-a-PhD-Student_Workshop_Sep-2020-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many graduate students enroll in PhD not knowing why, therefore they suffer a lot when they are faced with challenges they never expect. on Sep 9<sup>th<\/sup> 2020, Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/telsayed\/\">Tamer Elsayed<\/a> has given a workshop titled \u201cWhat it means to be a PhD Student\u201d as the first in the \u201cLife after Graduation\u201d series organized by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbku.edu.qa\/en\/cis\">College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)<\/a>. In the workshop, Dr. Tamer gave some quick advice to help existing, new, and prospective students set their \u201cmindset\u201d in their long, serious, and very important journey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He clarified some important issues that should be considered early on in the path towards a \u201cvaluable\u201d degree. The workshop discussed what \u201cmentality\u201d the PhD students should have (especially in the Arab world) and answered several questions that should concern them. Among the questions the workshop discussed for the PhD students were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How should you \u201cthink\u201d as a PhD student?<\/li>\n<li>Why bother doing it?<\/li>\n<li>What should be your motivations and objectives?<\/li>\n<li>Is it all about \u201cgenerating publications\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>What makes your \u201ccertificate\u201d really valuable?<\/li>\n<li>Are failures \u201ca must\u201d in PhD?<\/li>\n<li>What skills should you have to be successful in PhD?<\/li>\n<li>Is being \u201csmart\u201d the most needed trait?<\/li>\n<li>How can you build a supportive environment for your study?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/telsayed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2020\/09\/Tamer-Elsayed_What-it-means-to-be-a-PhD-Student_Workshop_HBKU_Sep-2020.pdf\">slides<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xnYlYGgyeHw\">video<\/a>\u00a0are made available and free to use.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/yZcn57ChBVvy4u5z6\">Feedback and suggestions<\/a>\u00a0are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many graduate students enroll in PhD not knowing why, therefore they suffer a lot when they are faced with challenges they never expect. on Sep 9th 2020, Dr. Tamer Elsayed has given a workshop titled \u201cWhat it means to be a PhD Student\u201d as the first in the \u201cLife after Graduation\u201d series organized by\u00a0College of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/2020\/09\/09\/what-it-means-to-be-a-phd-student-workshop-at-hbku\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9616,63098,123],"tags":[68676,68156,123],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-seminar","category-workshop","tag-graduate-students","tag-phd","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/cse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}