After four years of PhD training, Ana and Cristian publicly defended their doctoral theses a few weeks ago. With only three months of difference on their starting dates, they had a common passion for Marketing communications and their role in nowadays’ digital brand communications. Nevertheless, they also shared supervisors, an office, and the difficulties and joys of a long-lasting doctoral endeavor. Here, they discuss some of their thoughts about the implications of coming to Belgium for a PhD, the language challenge, and the need to develop a strong collaboration team.
