In this episode of PhD Pending, we chat to Dr Robert Lloyd about his decision to change his full-time PhD to a part-time PhD. We talk about how a part-time PhD is different to a full-time programme, and his experience with productivity, teaching, and conferences during his part-time research. We also touch on the mental and financial impact of changing to part-time, and how it can have a positive impact on your work-life-balance.
Dr Robert Lloyd completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Cardiff University, and was awarded his PhD in January of this year. In his PhD thesis, Rob analysed metaphorical representations of ghostliness across Shirley Jackson’s writing. In addition to Jackson Studies and spectrality, his research interests include twentieth-century Gothic writing, contemporary women’s writing, and Horror in its literary and cinematic forms. He is currently working on expanding his thesis into a monograph, and is editing a collection of essays on Shirley Jackson’s short fiction with Dr Joan Passey.
Find Rob on Twitter: @roblloyd91
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