Hi I’m Sarah and research assistant at the University of New South Wales. My research focuses on adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) in a model of B cell lymphoma. ACT is when T cells (normally cytotoxic T cells) are taken from the patient’s body and expanded in culture, to generate more T cells and they are then injected back into […]
Abigail is a PhD student in Psychology researching statistics anxiety. Click here for for instagram. See what a typical day looks like below.
Hi, I’m Megan and I’m a third year PhD students in Education at Edge Hill University (UK) (@megan_loveys on Twitter and @thatphdgirl_ on Instagram). I’m researching the assistive technology use by visually impaired students in one further education college. I’m interested in finding out the individuals experiences and perceptions of assistive technology and how they may experience challenges due to […]
“Maybe I will just read through my entire thesis 54786 more times before I submit it” “I am unsure if I have ever been this tired before?” “WHY are my tables ruining my document?” “It feels like Christmas did when I was 5 years old” “Is this really happening?” “Let me check that I have uploaded the correct document, again” […]
It has been a week since I submitted my thesis, and honestly it still feels surreal. Submitting a thesis is something that you envision since the very first day of your PhD, and the journey from that very first day until submission is long, hard, exhausting, and stressful. But also unique, interesting, and inspiring. The last few months have been […]
Hello all! I am a 2nd-year PhD candidate from the Queensland University of Technology based at the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. I have a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (BBiomSci) and an Honours in Biomedical Sciences (BBiomSci Hons). My research focuses on finding ways to prevent or delay disease relapse in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have been […]
Hey there! My name is Breann and I’m a 5th year PhD candidate in Nutritional Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (minor). This semester, I’m both working on my research and teaching a food science course as a first-time instructor! This means that my days are all over the map – a combination of wet lab work and bioinformatics alongside teaching labs, […]
Time to fix last minute edits- Formatting a thesis is so incredibly frustrating, and there is some formatting that cannot be done until the very last minute as everything continually changes. Set time aside to anticipate those final formatting issues Coffee- DUH Some ‘mindful minutes’- submitting a PhD is a big deal and a weird experience. It is something not […]
Sending an email is an integral part of many of our jobs and while it seems so simple (and often it is) the email etiquette can make the whole thing very confusing. How does one address the person they are emailing? Use formalities (Dr., Professor, Mrs, Mr ?), go with a full name? When is it okay to start using […]
Hey, I’m Kate (click here for instagram), recently PhinisheD grad student in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. I studied the recovery of an endangered marine snail, black ablane, from a disease outbreak in the 1980s, and looked at where we find them years later on the Channel Islands of California. I knew that sea otters, a threatened […]
