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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.

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Kai Arulkumaran

Kai is a PhD student at Imperial College London. His research centres around sample efficiency, transfer...

Elmira Vagapova

Elmira is in the third year of her PhD program at the Moscow Institute of Physics...

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Raluca Gaina

Raluca is a final year PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. Her research is...

Charlene N. Rivera Bonet

Charlene is a 5th year PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies depression and...

Rebecca Hall

Rebecca recently finished her PhD at the University of York. Her research investigated the adaptations that...

Nidhi Menon

Nidhi is a PhD student at Virginia Tech, focused on developing an engineered platform to study...

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Daniel Hernandez

Daniel is a third year PhD student at the University of York. His research is based...

Gabrielle Huizinga

Gabrielle's a 2nd year Immunology PhD student at the University of Michigan. Her research focus on...

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Chris Sampson

Chris is making minor corrections to his PhD thesis post-viva at the University of Nottingham. His...

Ellie Hurer Profile

Ellie Hurer

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

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Writing Habits That Work

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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