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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cafe Research
Cafe research is an event put on by the graduate school for research students to socialise and informally present their work, there’s also free pizza and wine to help get us in the door! The most recent one was the first I’ve been to and I’ll admit the main reason I went was because I […]
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