I got married during my PhD, after I had published my first paper and presented at conferences. I deliberated for years about what to do
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
I can’t get no sleep
Sleeping has never been my superpower. Unlike the Faithless song, though, I don’t generally spend my insomniac hours tearing off tights with my teeth –
Learning to Program
This post is contributed by Lucy Mitchell, who taught at a coding bootcamp before working as a developer in health tech (https://birdie.care/). She also occasionally
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
It’s hard to finish a PhD in your parents’ house, when your home town has changed and so have you
This is an article by an anonymous scientist. Your funding is over and right at the end of the PhD, you need all your energy
