For PhDs who want stop losing weeks (or months) to PhD resistance - €97
CONQUER PHD
AVOIDANCE
THE PHD ACADEMY
3 courses that show you how to overcome PhD avoidance so you engage with your project consistently, build effective daily work practices, and re-start faster, without overwhelm, guilt and panic.
Your supervisor can't get your PhD back on track. But this can.
IT'S NOT A DISCIPLINE PROBLEM, IT'S A STRUCTURE PROBLEM
The stop–start cycle of PhD avoidance is exhausting: stalling, restarting, panicking, binge working, and falling behind again.
PhD students fall into patterns of avoidance because of:
• cognitive overload
• task ambiguity
• perfectionism
• emotional avoidance
• constant background guilt
It's not a personal failing. It's the lack of structure that makes the PhD feel like an insurmountable task.
You might think your supervisor can give you motivation (through deadlines, guilt and pressure), but overcoming your avoidance is not your supervisors job. Short term tactics like guilt only increase your PhD unhappiness.
Avoidance grows...confidence drops...momentum disappears.
LEARN THE 3 STEPS TO OVERCOMING PHD AVOIDANCE
What you need is momentum, and momentum requires 3 interventions to stop avoidance setting in.
STEP 1: OVERCOME YOUR HIDDEN RESISTANCE
We don't always really know WHY we are avoiding the PhD. Diagnose the invisible patterns disrupting consistency and confidence in your PhD working practice.
If you don't know them, you can't fix them.
STEP 2: BUILD A DAILY WORKFLOW
Building a daily PhD workflow means you can make steady progress every single day on your PhD without experiencing the friction that triggers avoidance spirals.
Understand the simple work practices that you can implement to get working consistently.
It's not about more motivation, it's about reducing friction.
STEP 3: RE-START FASTER
When interruptions occur, we need practices that enable us to recover fast after difficult weeks. PhD momentum relies on being able to restart without panic, guilt and overwhelm, and regain consistency without relying on motivation.
This course teaches you the key practices that enable fast re-starts so you can make consistent progress on your PhD. It's not about removing procrastination entirely (we all do it!), but to interrupt it before it spirals into paralysis.
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IMAGINE WAKING UP KNOWING EXACTLY HOW TO RESTART
No more losing entire weeks or months to avoidance.
No more turning one disrupted day into a month of guilt.
No more sitting at your desk exhausted before you even begin.
Instead you'll experience:
•clear next steps
•calm writing sessions
•fast recovery after disruption
•realistic planning
•sustainable progress
and a greater trust in your ability to continue the next day.
Not through pressure. Through better systems.
WHAT STUDENTS OFTEN REALISE
ARE YOU READY TO START WORKING ON YOUR PHD DAILY?
These 3 courses are not just about sharing practical strategies that work.
I've combined my 17 years of experience as an university professor and 7 years of working with over 400 PhD students to bring you the exact strategies I have seen put in place that get students from stuck to working daily on their PhDs in a way that makes meaningful progress.
•No more wondering why you can't get moving and entering into a cycle of damaging self criticism
• No more waiting around for things to change (your circumstances, your supervisor, your life)
• No more feeling like you are always 'behind'
I'M DR. MELANIE SMITH...
Former tenured Associate Professor with 17 years of academic experience and 7 years coaching academic faculty (800+) and doctoral researchers globally, published EU Law scholar, author, and consultant to the European Parliament.
Over the last 7 years, I have helped 400+ PhDs and supervised 40+ to successful PhD completion. All that training is inside the PhD Academy Courses.
I help researchers develop sustainable writing systems, overcome stop–start research patterns, and produce stronger work more consistently — without burnout, panic cycles, or productivity theatre.
My work combines academic experience with research-informed approaches to writing psychology, workflow design, and long-term scholarly development.
BUILD A PHD WORKFLOW YOU CAN ACTUALLY SUSTAIN
PhD's are not fast projects. It's a 3-5 year commitment, and that means life often gets in the way of consistent engagement.
It can feel impossible to stay on track without:
• understanding your practical work habits and the emotions driving them
• creating working practices that you can rely on without anyone else setting the agenda
• working sustainably at a pace you can keep long term
This bundle helps you to implement strategies straight away so you can
• re-enter your PhD sustainably
• regain your momentum
• understand, audit and intervene in the friction between you and consistent engagement
STOP TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH RESISTANCE
Pressure works briefly.
Then the cycle starts again.
Build systems that make progress easier to sustain instead.
