Podcasts by PhDs for Dummies
Are you wondering what PhD students research? Are you curious how academia works, or do you want to figure out how to stay motivated during your PhD? If the answer to one of these questions is ‘Yes!”, this is the right place for you.
In this podcast, Sam learns from PhD students or alumni, who explain their research and experiences in an approachable way. He talks with bioengineers, historians, and political scientists (and more) and hence, a lot of different research topics will be covered.
The podcast aims to bridge the gap of accessibility between academia and the outside world.
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#8 - Professor Florian Trauner on EU accession of the Western Balkans from 2022-03-06T11:57:38
PhDs for Dummies is back! Giving you the same concept with new people. Today's guest is Florian Trauner, a professor in EU migration policy at the Free University of Brussels. We discuss the pro...
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#7 - Assistant Professor Alie de Boer on the Intersections of Nutrition and Food Law from 2021-04-11T22:22:08
Don’t we all crave our grandmother’s chicken soup and turn to our self-proclaimed nutritious health claims when we are getting a mild fever? In today’s episode, Alie de Boer - assistant professo...
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#6 - Professor Roberta Haar on Schizophrenic Nation States in the Post-Cold War Era from 2021-03-21T23:13:03
Today’s episode of PhDs for Dummies features Roberta Haar, Professor of Foreign Policy Analysis and Transatlantic Relations at University College Maastricht. In our talk we speak about Roberta’s...
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#5 Professor Emeritus Meindert Fennema on banking networks and academic freedom from 2021-01-10T19:50:16
A talk with Meindert Fennema, who currently is a professor emeritus on political theory. Meindert elaborates on his PhD, which he wrote in the late 70's, and proves in this episode to be a...
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#4 Catherine Lo and her vision on the securitization of global diseases from 2020-11-22T23:31:55
An interview with Catherine Lo, lecturer in international relations and global health with an Asian focus at Maastricht University. Catherine talks about her PhD dissertation and how that relate...
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#3 - Ferenc Laczó and his research on Hungarian Jews during World War II from 2020-11-15T23:44:11
An interview with Ferenc Laczó, historian and assistant professor at Maastricht University. In this episode, we discuss the unique position of Hungarian Jews during World War II and talk about F...
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#2 - Martina Michalikova on her role as writing coach and her view on Open Science publication from 2020-10-18T22:38:57
In this episode, Martina Michalikova talks about her experience as a theoretical biology PhD candidate at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Apart from her research, we also discuss about the pu...
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#1 - Bioengineering and PhD students on skiing trips from 2020-10-11T22:00:32
An interview with Sommer Anjum, who is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. We talk about computional modelling and simulations but also about how PhD students behave on skiing trips...
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#0 - Introduction from 2020-10-07T06:53:59
Each episode, Sam has a discussion with a PhD student. The guests talk about their individual research and present it in an approachable way. The academic background of the different guests diff...
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