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 […]
My first student
We often get undergraduate students coming into the lab to complete their final year projects. These students are assigned to an academic supervisor who then in turn will assign one of their PhD students or post-docs to be the students supervisor in the lab. Now that I’m in my second year I’ve been assigned my […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m going to be a Brilliant Club tutor!
This has been a week filled with extra activities, on top of my normal working week I’ve had two trips to A&E (not for me!), one assessment centre, one careers in journalism event (a separate post coming soon) and one very busy Saturday buying crutches and knee braces while also preparing a course for year […]
GENIE outreach
Through my demonstrating I’ve got to know a lot more people within the department of genetics, both PhD students and academics, and this means that I come across more opportunities. Working on BS1005 and then BS1008 (blog post coming your way shortly) with Dr Cas Kramer I learnt that he is part of GENIE, GENIE is Leicester’s […]
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