How to finish a PhD

Going over the finish line

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Five tips for navigating the final months of your research project

‘Completing a PhD is probably one of the most stressful and rewarding things that you’ll ever do,’ says Angela Russell, a medicinal chemist and PhD supervisor at the University of Oxford, UK. The final year can feel like a hectic rush, scrambling to collect those last results and drawing years of work together into a thesis. But there are a number of other key steps involved in finishing a PhD and here the experts share five tips to help you navigate this frantic final push.