A Doctorate in One Video - Oxford Planetary Scientist

Seventy-five videos, five years on YouTube, one completed PhD, one published novel, and you can watch the whole thing in twelve minutes. I began my doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2016 and turned on the camera in 2017; seventy-five videos since have documented my journey from Miss to Doctor, from Earth to Mars, from writer to author, and from dark hair to, in 2022, definitely greying! My name is Lucy Kissick, I have a PhD in Martian geology, I’m a scientist in the nuclear industry, I’m the author of the science fiction novel Plutoshine, and thank you for watching five years of The PhDiaries. It’s been grand. - Would you like to read Plutoshine? I really hope so! Blackwell’s: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781... Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plutoshine-L... - Would you like to see more of my PhD journey? The gist of a PhD in a playlist:    • The PhDiaries | An Introduction   Every video playlist:    • The PhDiaries | An Introduction   A bit of… First year:    • Imposter Syndrome   Second year:    • PhD Survival Tip: Pretend It's a Video Game   Third year:    • When Motivation Runs Out | PhD student   Fourth year:    • Writing My Thesis Introduction With Evernote   After!    • The Goldilocks Job Between Industry & Acad...   The really cool bits: Making a piece of Mars:    • Make Your Own Piece of Mars   Out in the field:    • Teaching Undergraduates For The First Time   Chemistry marathon:    • How to Make a Martian Lake   European Space Agency summer school:    • Designing a Space Mission in Ten Days   Day in the life:    • Day in the Life of an Oxford PhD Student   Oxford being beautiful:    • Living In Oxford For Your Postgraduate   Got a job!    • Things I'm Really Glad I Did Before My Int...   Submitted my thesis!    • I Submitted My Thesis.   My viva!    • The Run-up to (and Immediately After) My Viva   Novel cover reveal!    • Cover Reveal for Plutoshine (Gollancz, Mar...   - Music is Incandenza by the Oxford-based post-rockers Waking Aida, used with permission, and I would really recommend their gorgeous alum Eschaton. - With thanks to my college, St Edmund Hall, and my department, Earth Sciences, and my happy place, the Oxford University Parks. Thank you for watching, thank you for sticking with me, and now it’s onwards to hiking, wild-swimming, and sea glass collecting.