Nour El Houda Benlakhdar is a third-year PhD student in educational linguistics at the University of Northampton, UK. Her project is fully funded by the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In her study, Nour aims to investigate the challenges and needs of Algerian PhD students in the sciences when writing scientific articles. Her areas of interest include EAP needs analysis, writing for publication, genre analysis, and qualitative inquiry.