We have invited two professors for a brutally honest Ask-Me-Anything.
Susanna Tosca, Professor at HUM and Anders Drachen, Professor at TEK.

Lunch and coffee included :)

Bring your own questions, if you need inspiration here are some examples provided by Anders and Susana.

• Is it normal to doubt your research or your decision to do a PhD? What should I do when I feel like quitting?
• Why am i doing this at all? How to keep the motivation up?
• How do you handle a supervisor who seems too busy to meet or doesn’t prioritize your project?
• In a world where the dissertation is no longer enough to secure a job, how to juggle all the competences one has to develop; publish, teach, present at conferences, dissemination, and so on?
• Daily life at the university, how to interact and be part of the department together with the permanent staff?
• What should I do if I feel like my research is going nowhere after years of work?
• How do you find focus and clarity when there are so many competing demands on your time?
• What if my project is not getting the funding I need? How can I still move forward?
• How do you network effectively as a PhD student, especially if you’re introverted?
• How can I prepare for life after the PhD? Should I start planning for post-PhD careers early?
• I have a poster at a conference but nobody is interested. What do I do?
• Nobody cares about my research/my research seems irrelevant. What do I do?

Susanna Tosca, Professor Media Studies, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science: My research area has been the reception of digital media since I defended my doctoral dissertation on digital literature in 2001. Other objects of study throughout the years have been hypertext, digital art, computer games, and transmedial worlds, with a special interest in Japanese popular culture products.

Anders Drachen, Professor, Head of SDU Metaverse Lab, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Honorary Professor at University of York: 
Every day, billions of people interact with creative technologies such as games and social media, and yet we have very little data available about the trillions of hours we spend yearly with such technologies. This is a great roadblock towards protecting users, emphasizing the positive effects of our interaction with creative technologies, and also towards informing public policy in this space. Professor Drachen is leading cross-disciplinary, international efforts towards establishing the evidence needed to make decisions about our future relationship with creative technologies, and how to harness their societal potential.