Dr Katie Bouman. If you have been on the internet and looked at any science content this week you will know that name. Dr Bouman played a critical part in developing the algorithm that enabled us to successfully obtain an image of a black hole for the first time by Read more…
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It was 6th October last year when I finally received the email from my Graduate School saying that my examiners were happy with my thesis amendments and I was officially all done and dusted. 6 months on, I’ve had time to reflect on the PhD, my experiences during it and Read more…
Amongst the submissions to this request for PhD experiences was a lot of people talking about the day to day requirements about working all hours! To help make it clear how you should do a PhD I have prepared the following heatmap infographic on how PhD time should be spent.
So last week I put out a rare call for input from our readers. I asked for PhD stories and experiences and got… PhD stories and experiences, which was a big shock to us all. There’s a chance our readers are actually intelligent people that want to contribute constructively to Read more…
So this week I sat down to write an ErrantScience article all about the PhD experience. I’ve written plenty about PhDs before from various perspectives but the article I was writing gave me pause. I am keenly aware that my own PhD experience doesn’t exactly match up with my peers Read more…
