Publishing papers is part of what being an academic is about, but it's an achingly slow, often convoluted progress. To keep your spirits up, and to remind yourself that you are progressing - however slowly - these five milestones can be checked off as you go along: from the first draft right through to seeing your work in press.

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New video every other Wednesday (ish), please comment if you have a topic you’d like to see covered. Credits music with permission from the incredibly talented post-rockers Silent Island. The song is ‘Dolphin Rush’ and you can find it here on Bandcamp from their album Fall of Oceans: https://silentisland.bandcamp.com/alb...

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My name is Lucy Kissick, and I’m a fourth and final year PhD student at the University of Oxford.