It’s Not Over, Until I Win — Dr Oli Delgaram-Nejad

Podcast

It’s Not Over, Until I Win

A companion to doctoral study

This podcast is a long-form companion to the PhD experience. It focuses on supervision, loneliness, integrity, confidence, and the endurance required by prolonged uncertainty. The intention is not to instruct, but to accompany: to name what is often lived privately and to make it speakable.

“The aim is not to instruct… but to accompany.”
Format: long-form episodes (audio + video)
Focus: doctoral life, supervision, integrity, endurance
Use: reference-friendly listening

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What you’ll find here

Episodes focus on what doctoral study does to a person: how standards become ambiguous, how approval becomes scarce, and how self-trust can erode under long stretches of uncertainty. The work is reflective rather than instructional, and aims to preserve psychological realism.

This is not a productivity system and it’s not a set of universal rules. It’s an attempt to give words to common pressures—so that students and supervisors can think and speak more carefully about what the process demands.

Boundaries

  • This podcast does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice.
  • It does not offer personalised supervision, mentoring, or individualised guidance.
  • It is descriptive and reflective rather than prescriptive.