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Universities are failing PhD students and early-career researchers. Not because people don’t care, but because the system is set up in a way that makes it weirdly hard to do the one thing everyone claims to value: good research.

A practical playbook for supervisors and PhD students to manage the use of AI in academic projects.

Managing papers across email, Slack, and random folders is painful, especially when you’re working in a team. ResearchDock’s project-specific reference manager gives each project its own shared library of papers, comments, and reading lists.

Doing a PhD is often described as running a marathon, but unlike a race, there’s rarely a clear roadmap. Between managing experiments, writing papers, collaborating with supervisors, and juggling administrative tasks, it’s no surprise that many PhD students struggle to stay organised. That’s where project management software for PhD students comes in.

What makes a PhD truly fulfilling? It’s not just funding, lab equipment, or even publications. According to *Nature*’s 2025 global survey of more than 3,700 doctoral students, the biggest driver of happiness and success is surprisingly simple, good supervision.