Supervision: In my experience
After reading this THE article posted by the graduate school on their facebook page I thought this post should be about supervision and what you should expect from your supervisor. First of all I think it’s important for you to know every supervisor is different, I think that article highlights this. A supervisors style varies based on many different […]
“No I don’t have a Masters”
It’s pretty normal to be asked as a PhD student where you did your Masters degree. I however didn’t do one, and this seems to come as a shock to most people (probably because a lot of the people asking are Master’s students), but no I didn’t do one. So how am I here in […]
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 […]
A really busy non-PhD week
This week I feel like I’ve done so much, but I don’t really have anything to show for it if we’re talking about lab results. Don’t worry I haven’t just caved in and given up on PhD work, I’ve just had A LOT of other work this week! So to give you a quick run […]
Genomes 2014
As I mentioned in my last post I attended my first large scientific conference last week. This was “Microbiology after the genomics revolution: Genomes 2014″ and was held at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. It was a big event with ~500 people attending and there was a lot to see, do and learn. We began our […]
Thesis forum
I have wet shoes, I have wet shoes because I’ve just come back from the library and the weather today is very British. So the library, it’s not a place I go often, but today there was a thesis forum. This is a little get together, normally arranged by the lovely Helen Steele from the […]
Perspective
You always here all sorts of stories about the mental health of PhD students, I don’t personally believe we’re all the jibbering wrecks we’re made out to be in newspaper articles but that doesn’t mean that a little perspective isn’t useful to us all sometimes. We are, after all, in the process of dedicating ourselves to one […]
Brilliant Club training weekend
Honestly, right now, I’m exhausted. Lab work is intense, my list of jobs to complete keeps growing, my first year seminar is less than a month away and I spent all of last weekend at a training event for the Brilliant Club (post about why here). I’m really excited about the Brilliant Club, although a little terrified about actually teaching […]
Hitting the ground running…
I think it’s fair to say I didn’t exactly hit the ground running when I got back to work on Wednesday. I spent a fair amount of the morning doing some of that productive procrastination i.e. looking at travel options for a conference I’m attending in June. Overall an important task, at some point I’ll need to […]
Should we give up on the selfish gene?
So this one is going to be a science opinion post not a life at Leicester post because at the weekend I read this article: http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/why-its-time-to-lay-the-selfish-gene-to-rest/ Thank you kindly to Josh and Chuck at HowStuffWorks.com for their weekly “The Best Stuff We’ve Read This Week” which appeared on my twitter at the weekend. For any budding […]
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