Your thesis is sitting there, finished or nearly finished, and someone has probably told you to turn it into journal articles. Great advice. Completely useless without specifics. Turning your thesis into journal articles is not the same as copying chapters and hitting send. However, if you approach it properly, that dissertation you bled over can…
Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of those things everyone tells you to do and almost nobody tells you how to do. You finish your dissertation, you’re exhausted, and then someone cheerfully says, "You should publish that." Great. Wonderful. Where do you even begin? The honest answer is that most postgraduate students sit…
Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of those tasks that feels enormous until someone shows you the seam. Then it feels obvious. Your thesis is not one thing that needs to be shrunk down. It’s several things stitched together, and each of those things has a life of its own. The problem is…
Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of those tasks that postgrads are told to do but rarely shown how to do. Your supervisor waves a hand and says something like "you should really get that published," and then disappears. You stare at 80,000 words and wonder where on earth to begin. However, the…
You’ve submitted your thesis. Maybe you’ve even passed your viva. And now someone — your supervisor, a conference contact, a well-meaning relative who doesn’t fully understand what you do — has said, "So when are you publishing?" Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of the most useful things you can do for your…
Turning your thesis into journal articles feels, at first glance, like doing the whole thing again but smaller. It isn’t. The research is done. The thinking is done. What you’re actually doing now is repackaging something dense and sprawling into something sharp and publishable. That distinction matters enormously, because it changes what you’re looking for…
You’ve spent years on your dissertation. You’ve defended it, survived the viva, and quietly promised yourself you’d turn it into journal articles. Then six months pass. Then a year. Then you find the file and feel vaguely guilty. Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of those tasks that feels obvious in theory and…
Turning your thesis into journal articles is one of those things everyone tells you to do and almost nobody tells you how to do. You finish the dissertation, you survive the viva, and then someone cheerfully says "you should really publish that." Thanks. Very helpful. The gap between a completed thesis and a peer-reviewed publication…
