The PhD experience is a series of wild oscillations between feeling gloriously competent and wildly out of your depth. These oscillations occur on a semi-hourly basis when you begin, lengthen out to months somewhere in the middle, then rapidly shrink back to hourly, if not half-hourly, as you reach the Read more…
This month we’ve had a range of different topics covered in our weekly blog posts, from lab-snacking to the joy of science. First, I looked back on the last 6 months since becoming a Doctor, reflecting on how some things in life have changed, and how some haven’t. Next, Matthew Read more…
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…
