Alex Fitzpatrick (www.twitter.com/archaeologyfitz) is an almost-finished-PhD candidate and zooarchaeologist. When she’s not complaining online, she is the host of the ArchaeoAnimals Podcast on the Archaeology
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Why is the current BLM movement important for all minority groups?
Manny Singh (LinkedIn: ) is a B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science student. Having returned to higher education after almost two decades of travelling, working, and the
A view from an Engineering picket line
This is the third post in our series about the UCU Strike, and is a guest post from Eleanor Blair. Eleanor is a Computer Officer
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Two Faces of the Same Coin – How We Combated Burn-Out
About the authors Cristina Balaban (Twitter: @cristina_blbn) is an MSci Geography graduate at Durham University. Born and raised in the mountain foothills of Romania, she
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Learning to Program
This post is contributed by Lucy Mitchell, who taught at a coding bootcamp before working as a developer in health tech (). She also occasionally
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How to be a PhD student
This is a guest post by Michael Asghar, a post-doc at the University of Nottingham who is currently using high-field fMRI to study changes in