A day in the life of a PhD student. The SciComm Edition.
I talk about science ALOT – if you haven’t noticed! And I like sharing insights into what I do in day to day life as a scientist – so I started this ‘A day in the life of a PhD student’ series on my blog. Now – I rant and rave about how different every […]
A day in the life of a PhD student. Chapter 5.
As a PhD student, I often get asked the question ‘So what do you do?’ A simple enough question. A simple enough answer of ‘I research embryonic stem cells and how they use oxygen concentration and glycolysis, a type of metabolism, to stay as stem cells’. But sometimes I then get asked ‘No! I mean […]
A day in the life of a PhD student. Chapter 4.
Hello and welcome to yet another insight into my daily life as a PhD student in a stem cell lab! After a slow January with cells and experiments, February is here and the incubator is overflowing with cells – mainly for my experiments actually so I thought it was time to update you with another […]
‘You don’t look like a scientist!’
I am SO annoyed and angry today – and for once it is nothing to do with anything in the lab! I did have a completely different blog to publish today, but my journey home made me realise I had to write about this as it has irritated me so much – so apologies for […]
A day in the life of a PhD student. Chapter 3.
Christmas is over and now it’s time to head back to studying, researching and working! That daunting early morning alarm that you haven’t heard for weeks, cold and wet mornings combined with spending too much time on my first day back in the freezers is not something I want to be doing to try and […]
A day in the life of a PhD student. Chapter 2.
It’s most definitely been a while since I showed you what a typical day for me as a PhD student is like. So, since Chapter 1. I have finished all the experiments I needed for my transfer thesis, written that in full and had my transfer viva date set. Scary! One of the main reasons […]
A day in the life of a PhD student. Chapter 1.
Since my I won my first science prize!!! …. well sort of! blog post all the way back in February, I’ve actually won a science prize! It was another three minute thesis competition – but it was the actual university- wide competition where I won the audience prize within my Faculty’s heat- so I must […]