Is the advice you get about your PhD wrong?

This post is by Dr Matthew Evans who is currently a Teaching Fellow in Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK and Visiting Researcher in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Prior to this he completed his PhD at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, York, UK. His research focuses upon human rights, especially socioeconomic rights, transformative justice, and the roles of social movements, nongovernmental organisations and trade unions in advocacy networks. He has recently published “Structural Violence, Socioeconomic Rights and Transformative Justice” in the Journal of Human Rights and “Trade Unions as Human Rights Organizations” in the Journal of Human Rights Practice.