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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 Amy Wooldridge | In a follow-up to her previous post about conference networking, Amy Wooldridge returns to tell us how to use coffee and tea as networking tools No matter how many times my fellow scientists deny it, based… Continue Reading →
By Laura Harrison | Every spring, legions of pale, marking-weary academics step blinking into the sunshine and congregate in the magical tradition that is a conference. Due to the nature of the academic year, there is a disproportionate number of conferences… Continue Reading →
By Fraser Raeburn | As we all know, a PhD is fuelled as much by caffeine as it is by intellect or research skills. Glancing around the shelves of the PhD office space at Edinburgh now, only books outnumber the various… Continue Reading →
By Laura Harrison | With June just around the corner, most of the new crop of PhD students have received their acceptances, funding (hopefully) and are starting to make plans for September. For international students, this means applying for your… Continue Reading →
By Felicity Loughlin | Being a PhD student can sometimes feel like a continual exercise in multi-tasking. Researching and writing up a thesis is often interrupted, thankfully, by attending or organising conferences, research trips, and giving papers. For me, one… Continue Reading →
By Gary D. Hutchison| ‘Wake up at 7.20am, travel into the office, sit down at the same desk every day. Lunch at 12.45 (30-35 mins), two tea breaks, set off for home at 5pm on the dot.’ A typical working… Continue Reading →
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