This page is meant to help you think about what you want to work on during your PhD and how it can fit together. Using databases for your research ideas and skills and notes from your discussions with mentors, you can narrow down into a

Thinking about projects and directions

Relevant research ideas

Research Ideas & Questions

Skills to work on

Research Skills

Other aspects/thoughts

• experiment/study types
• collaboration opportunities
• career goals

Narrowing it down: What maximizes your ideas, interests, skills you want to learn, and career goals?

Notes

Building your outline

Draft Thesis Title

Introduction

• Metaanalysis/review of literature 7-10 pages or so
• Conceptual diagram/figure

Chapter Title

• Relevance:
• Questions:
• Hypotheses: