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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Category: Career stage
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When to give up
This is an anonymous article from a PhD student at a UK University. Doing a PhD is rarely a linear process. The people who finish
Moving Abroad For Higher Education
This is a guest post by Soumya Singh , , who is a fourth-year undergraduate in Computer Science at Durham University, UK and an
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My university experience as black woman in physics.
This is a guest post by Karel Green who set up POCSquared (a site which showcases the achievements of People of Colour in STEM –
Researcher mental health: A personal perspective
This is a guest post from Dr Joanna Waldie, Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and STEM Gamechanger. I’m a postdoctoral
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A life outside science
This is a guest post from Nathan O’Brien who works at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. “Are you up to much over the weekend?” I (perhaps naïvely)