Meet fellow PhDs near and far
Find and connect with PhDs in your field from all around the world. Keep in touch beyond occasionally meeting at conferences or invited talks.
Find and connect with PhDs in your field from all around the world. Keep in touch beyond occasionally meeting at conferences or invited talks.
Celebrate the small wins (very important) and get through tough times together. PhDs are people, too, and they all have a life!
The long, difficult, and solitary endeavor known as PhD requires consistent effort and discipline. Share milestones with your community, and support others to accomplish theirs, too!
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PhD Valley is a social app for current, future, and past PhD students to support their academic journey from all over the world.
Low-brow and frequent interactions between scholars encourage camaraderie and future collaborations.
Scholars can create posts about their research, discuss topics in comments and forums, look for events and job opportunities in their field, and more.
You use your school email to create an account. A login code is sent to your email that you can use to finish the sign-in process. Your email is NOT visible to others on PhD Valley and we do not share it with anyone.
To finish creating the account, you will complete your bio that includes taking a picture of what you are studying. Picture is worth a thousand words, and this will help you connect with other scholars you have not met.
Browse through other scholars profiles and posts, comment on them, and make casual connections with peers in your field.
We are doing our best to help people get through their PhD because I (Albert, co-founder) have personally been through it during my time in grad school.
The workload was tough during my PhD. Not only was the project academically challenging, but the fact that I had to work on it by myself made it extremely difficult. Other students in my lab understood my project only on the surface because they worked on tangentially related projects. I couldn't rely on them for practical suggestions or the sense of empathy that comes from deep understanding.
This also meant that I couldn't really connect with my partner or my family with regards to the challenges of pursuing a PhD.
Fortunately, I managed to overcome the major technical hurdle in my project and complete my PhD successfully. However, the experience left an indelible mark in my soul and made me seek ways that can help future PhD students not experience such pain.
True, great achievements are accompanied by pain and suffering, but I think there is a difference between well-informed suffering and suffering quietly, alone and without resources. Throughout my time in academia, a number of my peers took their own lives due to stress and loneliness. I believe that had they been aware of other peers going through their own difficult journeys and had they been provided with opportunities to connect with them, they might still be with us today.
Having been through the PhD journey myself, I know what PhD students need to get through it. PhD Valley is the toolkit, refuge, and the 3rd space for PhDs so they can get their degree with impressive CV, a strong network, a lined-up career path, and a smile on their face.
No, we do not share your data with anyone or sell it to anyone. Only your email domain is visible on PhD Valley and is used for filtering. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
We will have job postings relevant to PhD students in various fields. Employers wishing to post will pay us listing fees.
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