Lecture: Things I wish I knew as a PhD Student

In this lecture, Professor Diego Acosta will share some crucial ideas he wished he had learned when he started his PhD. His advice aims at making your journey more enjoyable and, in the process, making your research more useful and important. Rather than offering obvious advice (e.g. write good papers), Professor Acosta will present some of the most common traps that lead scholars to have their work not being read by anyone and to procrastination. Once those traps are identified, he will give some unconventional advice on how to face them and have a more enjoyable and fruitful career, or get a first academic job for those who are still in their doctoral studies.

The lecture is primarily aimed at doctoral students and junior researchers.

Diego Acosta is Professor in European Migration Law at the Law Department, University of Bristol. His work discusses Migration Law as a central aspect of globalisation and analyses various processes of inclusion and exclusion and their implications for the rule of law in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere. He has more than 50 publications and his work has been used by Parliaments, Governments, law firms and international organizations in various countries and regions.Diego Acosta is Professor in European Migration Law at the Law Department, University of Bristol. His work discusses Migration Law as a central aspect of globalisation and analyses various processes of inclusion and exclusion and their implications for the rule of law in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere.

Please send an email to rebecca.stern@jur.uu.se before 31 March if you plan to attend.