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Alison John | A few weeks ago, I volunteered at Professor Eleanor Dickey’s Ancient Schoolroom (at the University of Reading) where I had the rare opportunity to see my research come to life. I wanted to participate in the Schoolroom because… Continue Reading →
Samantha Snyder | Having my name on the cover of a book was not something I expected to accomplish by the age of 26. Publishing a book was something I had always wanted to do, but I figured it was… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | Organising a conference is one of the many things that PhD students do to boost their experience, promote their research, and enhance their CVs. Earlier this year, I arranged a conference with a couple of fellow… Continue Reading →
By Sibyl Adam | Public engagement, or its more convoluted brethren, impact, has always seemed a bit obvious to me. Why wouldn’t you be interested in institutions and groups outside of academia, and why wouldn’t they be interested in you? Clearly… Continue Reading →
By Maurice Casey | A couple of months ago, I was enjoying post-seminar drinks in the Oxford Kings Arms. Nearby were a couple with a golden retriever, whose name I learned was Dougie. At one point, Dougie was seated at the… Continue Reading →
By Eleanor Hardy | It’s no secret that writing a PhD can be a lonely and insular experience. It’s also no secret that the PhD itself can start to feel pretty esoteric and obscure. Even if you work on a well-known… Continue Reading →
by Elke Close | In the past, there have been many posts using analogies to explain our PhD journey. It has been compared to many things: Game of Thrones, an intimate relationship, a video game… The list seems endless. Yet… Continue Reading →
By Alina Kozlovski | I spent a lot of time in museums. I study ancient Roman history so that might seem like a given, but my thesis does not directly relate to any particular object or collection. You can find… Continue Reading →
by Diya Gupta | Organising an external speaker series at King’s College London descended on me rather serendipitously. I was setting up a reading group for postcolonial theory at the time (which, in the end, never quite took off), and… Continue Reading →
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