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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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“3 person babies”
All opinions here are my own, I respect that other’s may have differing views. As this is a genetics blog I thought I would write about MP’s voting overwhelmingly in favour of what the media have named three-person babies, this was despite opposition from some in the Church. While the Church, among other groups, has branded the procedure unethical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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