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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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Prof Debby Cotton

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

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Hannah Lewis

Hannah is a 1st year PhD student at Cardiff Metropolitan University. The aim of her research...

Dr Chris Pattison

Dr Pattison gained his PhD in Cosmology from the University of Portsmouth. He is now finishing...

Guy Cameron

Guy is in the 3rd and final year of his PhD in Immunology and Microbiology at...

Henry Powell-Davies

Henry is in the first year of his PhD in the Cronin Group at the University...

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Maria Sharif

Maria is a 1st year PhD student at the University of Birmingham, researching how to employ...

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Carina Nicu

Carina is a PhD student at The University of Manchester who has just defended her viva....

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Fabian van den Berg

Fabian's in the final year of his PhD research at Maastricht University. His project is about...

Emma Strand

Emma is a third year PhD student at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses...

Dr Michael Norman

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

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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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