Online communities for PhD students
Being a PhD student can sometimes feel a little isolating, although those of us based in the lab are lucky enough to have an built in community, that doesn’t mean we can’t also look outside of the lab, our departments and our institutions for people to talk to and discuss PhD life with. For humanities and […]
Festival of Post Graduate Research
This week I took part in the university’s 11th Annual Festival of Post Graduate Research. This is an event when 50 PhD students present their work to the public by producing posters. We’re judged by a wide range of invited judges and each student has about 4 judges attend their poster. I have to say it […]
He for She
Have you heard for the Gender Equality movement from the UN called HeforShe? It was originally kicked off by Emma Watson and just in case you haven’t heard about it I’ll provide a little background. It’s a campaign to promote and celebrate men (as well as women) supporting gender equality and involves a simple pledge […]
Media Training Day
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to head to London for a media training day put on by the Science Council. I have to say watching myself back on camera (especially the first time) was painful but I learnt so much that it was worth it. So why did I even get the […]
The girl with the interactive poster
In March my lab bench gathered a lot of dust, it was a busy month between teaching 2 brilliant club placements, demonstrating for an undergraduate unit, moving house and attending the Society for General Microbiology’s (SGM) annual conference. With my lab bench gathering dust it’s also meant my blog has gathered a little dust, it’s […]
So I’m probably not going to be a journalist
In December an event was organised by the Leicester Learning Institute giving PGR’s the opportunity to have a session with an experienced journalist. Journalism has always intrigued me so I signed up straight away and was lucky enough to get one of the limited spaces. All the spaces were taken very quickly so there’s clearly a demand from […]
Careers in journalism event
I mentioned in my Brilliant club post that I recently went to an event put on by the Academic Practice Unit about careers in journalism. There are lots of different careers events put on but this is the first I’ve attended, partly because I’m still only in the first year of my PhD and partly because none […]
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