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PhD Student and Postdoc Experiences

Read our exclusive interviews with past and current PhD students to find out what it’s like to do a PhD.

Dr Omotayo Ilesanmi

Dr Ilesanmi has a PhD in Applied Biochemistry from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo...

Michele Ponzelli

Michele is a first-year PhD candidate in a double degree program between the University of Girona...

Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Abdullah recently finished his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His computer science research...

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Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi

Dr Aitsi-Selmi gained her social epidemiology PhD from UCL in 2013. She now runs a private...

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Ellie Hurer

Ellie is a final year PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire, investigating a protein which...

Dr Michael Norman

Dr Norman gained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of East Anglia...

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Prof Debby Cotton

Prof Cotton gained her DPhil in the school of education at Oxford University. She is now...

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Sam Rose

Sam is a new PhD student at Teesside University. Her research is focussed on better understanding...

Freya I. Addison

Freya's in the final year of her PhD at the University of Leeds. Her project is...

Priya Pollard

Priya's a 1st year PhD student University College Dublin. Her project involves investigating a novel seaweed-ensiling...

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Don’t Let Research Overwhelm You: Writing Habits that Work

There’s no doubt about it – writing can be difficult. Whether you’re writing the first sentence of a paper or a grant proposal, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of words. However, good writing is critical to academic success, so here are six habits for research...

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