Contact PhDGrind

PhDGrind is a small, independent, ad-supported site — there is no support desk standing by, but a real person reads everything that comes in to support@phdgrind.com.

A few things this address is genuinely useful for: a calculator that gave you a result you think is wrong (say which tool — the stipend vs cost-of-living calculator, funding runway calculator, dissertation writing-pace planner, time-to-defense countdown, conference budget calculator, or citation & h-index estimator — and the figures you entered); a tool you wish existed on the site; an out-of-date fact or broken link in the blog, learn section, or the museum; or a bug in how a page looks or behaves on your device.

There’s no fixed response time to promise, and no ticket number or live chat — email is read and handled as it comes in. If your question is really about your own funding package, your candidacy, or a specific program requirement, your department, your graduate school, your funding office, or your advisor will have a more authoritative answer than this site can: PhDGrind’s tools produce general estimates, not financial or academic determinations, and the site isn’t affiliated with any university, funder, or journal.

Before writing in about a tool result, it’s worth double-checking the numbers you entered — a stipend amount, a monthly cost, a deadline, or a citation count is the most common source of a surprising answer. If it still looks off after that, that’s exactly the kind of message worth sending.