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 […]
Training courses
We all have our demons, and one of mine is stats. Stat’s is not my strong point and I was criticised for the lack of statitical analysis included in my probation report at the end of my first year. I actually think this is quite a good thing, I wasn’t criticised for any of the fundamental […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today I’m Harry Potter
So apparently today I’m “magic” although probably more like Hermione Granger than Harry Potter (being a PhD student you identify with the book smart one). This is what we call it when you have a day where everything goes right – it’s a rare day and should be taken advantage of, as a PhD student […]
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