I'm Hira Javaid, an Oncology PhD student at the University of Oxford. I share videos on academic content such as PhD advice, application tips, cancer biology and bioinformatics tutorials, and all things Oxford-related.
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This is a wonderful film. Thank you so much, I have now activated my OneNote on my Mac and MacBook Air, synchronised and ready to go. Delighted with it, all that paper was getting me down. Beautiful scarf too. Best wishes, Miffy xxx
Hey Hira, Just wanted to ask you if a gap after your masters for like 2 years with a small research training experience makes you eligible...like is it necessary that you had to make full use of that time gap..... please if you have time can you give a reply. Thank you
In what order would you do these tips? I'm a bit confused between the Excel sheet organisation and the one-note organisation. Would you store everything on one note and then make an Excel sheet based on what you are going to use. Great video by the way ! :)
Whenever I find a paper I find anything interesting in I add a little row to Excel. And some papers I take detailed notes for in One Note. Not really an order always but just remember to add a row whenever you read a paper it helps you find what you've read and where the info is. Good luck and thank you!
hey Hira😊 first of all thankyou so much for all this information. I am already expecting an oxford Dphil interview and wanted to prepare ahead of time. I am having trouble understanding this 5 minutes presentation time: would they give me a topic and I have 5 mins to prepare or this 5 min is the presentation time? My other question is: How would I select the project or topic for this 5 min presentation? would I be presenting my previous projects from masters or bachelors or something related to the project I am applying to?
Hi! You will have to present in 5 minutes and you should prepare the slides etc before the interview. The topic should be your research project from masters or bachelors.
Thank you so much ❤️ you are really lovely ❤ I loved hearing to you while preparing myself for my interview ❤ mine it’s in 4 days, so I will return to this message to tell you how it went 😜
Dear Hira, This is Amiya Sur from India, I would like to thank you first for making an in-depth video on Interview presentation (a crucial aspect of phd interviews) However, I also got confused as I followed along the video, if my school have asked me to present on a project proposal, how can I already have results to share with them ? How do I show the graphs and all prior to beginning my phd ?
Hira, your short video on how you use OneNote has helped me immensly with writing difficult articles. I have ADHD-like symptoms that makes learning - and eventually, writing - difficult subjects. I've been working on an article on the Vagus nerve, trying to take notes from white papers, medical journals, reports ... and can't focus or organize anything. Your video really helped me. Unfortunately I didn't know what program you were using ... you never mentioned it. I eventually figured it out. Thanks so much for posting this. You ARE saving lives. - Roger
Hi Roger, I'm so happy to hear this system works for you! Sorry it wasn't in the video, I put it in the title and thumbnail. It's Microsoft OneNote, hope that's what you found too! I also have another video on OneNote on my channel if that is useful and will make more!
Your suggestions for the Oxford interviews were very helpful. Surprisingly, I faced many questions that you already guessed in this video. I spent a lot of time preparing myself based on your advice, and it definitely paid off. I am thrilled to let you know that I received my desired master's offer to join Oxford this September. Thank you so much for your guidance and it would be wonderful to thank you in person when I will be on campus.
Hey .. Hira I hope you are doing well … hira I have been planning to apply for my phd program in Oxford and I have bioinformatics background…. I’ll really appreciate if you could give me your email or insta where I can have a chat with you it will be great if you help me in this regard.
Hi Hira. I applied to the PhD programs but didn’t email the professors. I thought of doing this but it came it me that maybe that’ll come across as jumping ahead. At this stage do you recommend emailing the professor now before not knowing if I have been chosen for panel interview next week? Many thanks. 🙏 Sorry another tiny question, my current masters professors were extremely occupied so I gave my laboratory head reference would that impact the selection? Even though I have first class honours and lots of laboratory experience. Thanks again :)
Hey I think you can still contact them and say I've applied and would like to discuss the projects if you're available! If they say no that's fine :) Lab head reference is fine, I usually give those as they've worked with you and supervised your research!
@@oxford_phd I’m waiting for their response if I’ll be chosen for interview next week, so this Monday I’ll send email to show how my research interest aligns with their research work. If I send my email template would you be able to give me a real quick feedback please, just even one sentence, this will be super helpful. Thank youuuu!
Hello, this video was very useful thank you. Can I ask when you mentioned ability to learn, what information they give you and ask questions based on that? Because this is my weak point to reply and think instantly on the spot and I’m working on this.
It depends on the field, but for STEM subjects it can be some data like a graph and they ask you to interpret the figure and what the graph shows, and what you can deduce from the data :) You can practice by reading some papers and looking at figures to see how the graphs/figures show the data and what the authors deduced from the figures :)
Thanks a lot Hira. The video was in great help. I always knew for PhD position email Professor first but recently I heard about( from some mate apply for PhD in USA) in Biological Science there is no need to cold email first. You have to directly apply through the application. Is it true? Will you please clear that for me?
This is different from cold emailing and asking if they can take on a PhD student although that also works sometimes if you have your own funding or a very strong CV/research portfolio. What I'm talking about here is emailing the professor if they have a PhD project advertised and meeting them before applying.
Hello Hira, thank you for the video. I do not quite get the differenc ebetween point 1 and 3 in your video. First you say that you rewrite the useful paragraphs straight away. In the third section you say that you just copy paste and rewrite it later only if it is useful your the thesis. Can you please clarify on that?
It depends on the purpose. If you're reading to write e.g. an essay or your thesis intro, then I write as I read. But if you're reading to understand a topic, browse the literature, or make notes I just copy paste. And if I need to write from it later then I can use that info and paraphrase without having to reread articles. Hope that makes sense!
Hi it was so long ago that I applied for the visa and they've changed it a lot so I think I'm not the best person for this now! But if I have time I could do some research on it for a video
