**In Collaboration** In this post, we are going to provide information on one of the most popular types of green tea today: Matcha green tea. Organic green tea is popular for a whole host of reasons, and of these reasons is the fact that it contains catechins. This is why green tea is used in so many health products. Catechins […]
7.50am- Up, showered, and dressed- ready to tackle the busy Monday ahead 8.04am- No coffee can be had today because my beloved machine is not working (I am in the process of getting it fixed). Surely I can get an extension on my PhD due to lack of caffeine? 9.08am- At work looking at my deceptively small to-do list. The […]
Trust me, I was anticipating that finishing my PhD was going to be hard. I never expected that it was going to be margaritas on a sailing-boat. But, so many unexpected hard aspects have popped up in the last (maybe) six months before PhD submission. Job hunting stress- I always knew that something needs to come after a PhD but […]
It has been a crazy few months since my last PhD update and I just feel like I haven’t stopped at all! Study one was desk rejected from the first journal I submitted to but the journal suggested a different place to send it. It then got sent to that journal and the editor requested changes. My primary supervisor and […]
I normally post blog posts for my series ‘operation gtfo’ which are all aimed around me trying to finish my PhD. But the truth is, I am not always productive and ticking things off my to do list. So this is this first post in the NON ‘operation gtfo’ series- my favourite ways to procrastinate…. Gardening– My non-green thumbs love […]
Hi, I’m Philippa a second year PhD student in Geography and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University (UK) (@philippa_carter on Instagram and Twitter). I’m researching landscape and intergenerational memory in North East England, working with the Land of Oak & Iron heritage project as my collaborative partner. I’m interested in the ways in which people understand and engage with their local landscapes and […]
~A PhD is a learning experience- you are a student and therefore expect to have to re-do things (and account for these in your timelines) ~Your thesis won’t keep you warm at night- make the time and take the effort to see your friends and family (even though your social life will be a little less eventful near the end […]
Writing discussions is perhaps my least favourite part of the scientific writing process. Actually, it is probably a tie between the discussion and the abstract. I love reading discussions but when it comes to writing my own, I get terrible writer’s block. Writing my discussion for study 2 has been particularly tedious due to having to re-run all my statistics […]
I am happy to report that I have been productive since my last PhD update post. After a bit more editing I finally submitted my first study to a journal! I am just really hoping that it gets to the reviewer stage. So many hours went into the media analysis so sending it off was a huge relief- I celebrated […]
Click here for what I learnt during my second year of a PhD. That finishing a PhD in 3 years is (nearly) impossible- When I started my PhD, like many other PhD students at my uni, we anticipate, and plan to finish our thesis in three years. Barely any of us achieve that. Thinking about what comes after a PhD […]
