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 […]
PhD admin
With the new academic year just around the corner I thought I’d write a little about what’s expected of PhD students as we transition from one year to the next. Obviously for us this is a very different process to Undergraduate students. We don’t sit exams (although we are assessed) and we don’t receive marks […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Code of a Killer
This week ITV’s 2 part drama Code of a Killer concluded, it’s airing was pretty exciting for us here in the Genetics department as the story line focused on the first ever murder enquiry to use Prof. Sir Alec Jeffery’s DNA fingerprinting technique to identify the murderer. This is a technique he developed here in the […]
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