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 […]
The elusive work/life balance
I’ve spoken about work life balance before and how I have to work hard to maintain it. Recently the issue of overworking in research science (and by all researchers, STEM or otherwise) has been brought up due to a recently published article on the Science website called “Getting noticed is half the battle”, it was […]
Sports membership update
Great news everyone, following on from my blog a few weeks back about the lack of gym membership options for PhD students (and other post-grads) I’ve got an update. Sports and Rec have agreed to introduce a membership that runs from 1st Jan-31st Aug each year, as it runs for 2/3’s of the time of a […]
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 […]
Danielle Brown Sports Centre
Update: After posting my blog on twitter (@megandsc) the SU (@LeicesterUnion) tweeted it to the Sports and Rec team (@UoLSports_Rec) who quickly got in touch. The issue has been raised within their senior team and hopefully I’ll get a full response after their next meeting. Time to worship the power of twitter 🙂 , thanks for the […]
Can Post-Grads vote in the Union Elections?
The Union elections are rapidly approaching, banners and students campaigning have sprung up all over campus, and as I was walking into the union earlier this week I was stopped by a very nice girl, our conversation went along the lines of: Campaigner: “Are you planning to vote in the student elections” Me: “Sorry I’m a Post-Grad” […]
While the Undergrads are away…
So today is the last day of term for the undergrads but University life goes on for the rest of us, admittedly much more quietly, but still we’re here working away. I’ll be here for another week and then I’ve booked off 2 weeks for Christmas. I’m only actually using 2 days of annual leave (of the 24/year […]
Training courses
We all have our demons, and one of mine is stats. Stat’s is not my strong point and I was criticised for the lack of statitical analysis included in my probation report at the end of my first year. I actually think this is quite a good thing, I wasn’t criticised for any of the fundamental […]
My first student
We often get undergraduate students coming into the lab to complete their final year projects. These students are assigned to an academic supervisor who then in turn will assign one of their PhD students or post-docs to be the students supervisor in the lab. Now that I’m in my second year I’ve been assigned my […]
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