They beat waiting for the university to provide a scholarship, or top-up a miserable stipend

Christopher Pepin-Neff (Uni Sydney) suggests the ways HERE.

He divides them into four categories, publishing, engagement, media, and money. The ideas range from the obvious to the optimistic but they are empowering, “while no one does their PhD alone, you are the CEO of your PhD,” he writes.

Worth a go. As a CMM friend once put it, “action ceases terror.”