We are a network of African academics, PhD scholars,
PhD candidates and researchers.
The Ph.D. Roadmap was created by Dr. Genevieve Bosah (Ph.D.) to assist individuals interested in pursuing a Ph.D. This comprehensive guide presents a clear and concise step-by-step approach to smoothly navigate the Ph.D. journey.
- Decision Making Process: entails a deliberate and thoughtful step-by-step process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions.
- Application Process: Application Process involves the period beginning when the candidate inquires about the PhD programme being sought and ending when an institution has extended a conditional offer or denial to the candidate.
- Proposal: a 3,000–4,000 word paper that summarizes your project, emphasizes its originality, and seeks to persuade the audience of the value of your research. It discusses ideas, models, and text corpora that are pertinent to your study subject.
- Interview Process: Your PhD interview may include one or more of the following, depending on the format: A formal question-and-answer session in front of a postgraduate recruitment panel, a presentation on your area of expertise or research project or a private conversation with your potential supervisor.
- Funding: involves the financial resources available to make a programme, or project possible. This usually comes in the form of grants, capital investments, donations, scholarships, and loans from an organization or company.
- PhD Candidature: refers to your enrolment in a higher degree by research
- Community/Support:unified group of people who share the similar ideas and can provide support along the PhD process
- Supervision: is a combination of inspiration, guidance, mentorship, information-source, coaching, and feedback. The PhD advisor will support you throughout your project by drawing on their experience and knowledge. Depending on their university, department, and personal preferences, each person’s supervisory experience varies.
- Collaboration: can take many different forms, such as helping a postgraduate student prepare the research they will do for their PhD or hiring a PhD student for a specific project that has some connection to policy but is unrelated to their dissertation.
- Preparing For Viva: is the process of preparing for the focused oral discussion in which you present and defend your PhD thesis in front of a panel of academic experts.
- PhD: PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy and is the highest postgraduate degree that can be obtained.
- Post PhD Opportunities: involves opportunities that are available after the completion of your PhD programme.