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 […]
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 […]
PhD events
I thought I’d take the chance to let you all know about some of the upcoming events at Leicester for Post-Grads: 1. PhDepictions – a competition where you sum up your research in a single image, along with an abstract. Unfortunately the deadline for submissions has passed but have a look at the PhDepictions website to see […]
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 […]
The Brilliant Club Update
I’ve written about the Brilliant Club before in a couple of different posts, you can find them here and here, so I thought I would post an update now that the spring placements have arrived. My first placement with the Brilliant Club, working with Yr12 students last summer, was daunting but massively rewarding, and I knew that I was […]
Abstract submission
This week I submitted my first ever abstract to a conference. I’m hoping to present a poster at the Society for General Microbiology’s (SGM) conference in March/April, obviously submitting an abstract doesn’t mean anything really, I need to wait until Feb to find out if it’s been accepted or not. It still feels like a […]
Jobs for life
Dear Royal Society, I recently read the THE article covering your report that discusses how we PhD students believe we’re walking into “a job for life” by gaining a PhD. I can only personally speak for my discipline, biological sciences, however judging by comments on Twitter and on the article itself I think I’m being […]
Standing up for Science Media Workshop
Last Friday I attended the Sense about Science (@SenseaboutSci) and Voice of Young Science (@Voiceofyoungsci) media workshop. Sense about Science is a charity that promotes good science and VoYS is their branch designed for people like you and I – Young Scientists, they want to teach us how to stand up and have a voice, […]
Germany
So after last weeks post about not working weekends I actually flew off on Saturday evening to Germany for a 2 day, Sunday-Monday, conference in Göttingen. I think this is a little different to the kind of work I discussed in my last post though, this is a exception not the rule. I think my boyfriend […]
Life is terrifying
OK so that probably sounds a tad dramatic but at the moment I feel like I’m always doing something to terrify myself. This isn’t a bad thing, and it’s definitely something I’m getting better at. The reason things are terrifying is because the are new/unknown, and personally I find the unknown petrifying (I imagine most […]
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