Season Finale – Danni Reches – Part 1 – Building Your Path In the Social Sciences

Download "Tools for Your PhD Journey" Now ! Welcome to this Papa PhD season finale, a special collab with the What Are You Going to Do With That podcast. Right now, if you go to their website you will find the interview I gave for their show! On the Papa PhD mic with me for this interview, I have Danni Reches, host of the W2DWT podcast, talking about her journey up to her PhD and about how she includes other projects and activities in her life as a graduate researcher, namely, working for the Minerva Center for the Study of Law under Extreme Conditions, at the University of Haifa. Danni Reches is a PhD fellow and research associate at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa. She received her BA in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University in the Netherlands, during which she co-established a student society. As part of her BA, she spent a semester at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on an exchange program. Danni also holds a BA certificate in Peace & Conflict Studies and an MA degree in Diplomacy, a specialization in International Relations, from the University of Haifa.Her PhD dissertation focuses on policy and perceptions of immigrants from the Middle East in Europe. In other research projects, Danni works on refugees and international law in the EU during crises, including the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ and the corona pandemic. Join the Papa PhD Postgraduate Career Exploration Group! What you’ll learn about in this episode:  Why taking a break between your master's and your PhD can be good for you and allow for some soul-searching, volunteering in your community, and meeting new, like-minded peopleWhat advanteges you can reap from choosing a smaller PhD programHow a PhD in social sciences worksWhy you should connect with peers in a wider circle, in graduate schoolThis episode’s pearl of wisdom:“Traveling and going to the other side of the world might sound very spontaneous and exciting, but I think it,s also allowing yourself to take that time, even if it's just a few weeks. To know that when you start something, you've considered it and it's not something you just jumped into  because other people told you it's what you were supposed to do – it was really your own choice. And I think it's muche easier to live with that than any other way.”“I think it's good for PhD students who are just about to start to realize that they can go out and look for peers. They don't have to sit and wait until it comes to them. Because this can feel like a very lonely process and it doesn't necessarily have to be.”Danni's links: LinkedIn – LinkedIn.com/in/danni-reches-6b6b7671; What To Do With That Podcast – shows.acast.com/whatareyougoingtodowiththat; Twitter – https://twitter.com/What2doWithTHAT; Instagram – Instagram.com/what2dowiththat. Leave a review on Podchaser ! Support the show on Patreon ! Launching your podcast? If you're preparing to launch your podcast, you may be asking yourself what hosting platform to use. I launched Papa PhD on Bluebrry because I wanted a professional service that would interface with my WordPress website, that would robustly broadcast Papa PhD to all platforms, and that would allow me to grow my podcast in years to come. And these are the reasons why I'm recommending the Blubrry podcast hosting and syndication platform. Click on the button below or use the promo code PapaPhDBlue on the Blubrry website to unlock a one month free trial: Try one free month with Blubrry ! If you are starting a serious podcast project, do consider one of the first podcasting hosts out there, offering state of the art services, including IAB certified statistics, based on years of experience in the podcasting space. Happy podcasting! You might also like the following episodes: Dana Murchison – Science Outreach: PapaPhD.