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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Abstract submission
This week I submitted my first ever abstract to a conference. I’m hoping to present a poster at the Society for General Microbiology’s (SGM) conference in March/April, obviously submitting an abstract doesn’t mean anything really, I need to wait until Feb to find out if it’s been accepted or not. It still feels like a […]
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 […]
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