Completing a doctorate in any discipline is a major undertaking. This short article offers real-world advice on some of the qualities that are essential. Based on our lived experiences we offer guidance on the issues any potential candidate, considering a doctoral programme in a UK university should probably consider before enrolling. Whilst the advice is generic and broadly relevant to the majority of doctorates, it is most germane to the Social Sciences.
Gupta et al. (Tue,) studied this question.