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
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Tips for studying with a disability
This is a guest post by Rhiannon Lunney, a PhD student in theoretical physics at Cardiff University. She is studying at an 80% rate to
Leaving academia is sometimes the right thing to do
This is a summary of a blog written by Charles Danforth, formerly a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Colorado (cdan4th) at the
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Respect is platinum: making conferences better
This is an anonymous piece about making conferences better for autistic people, and is part of a series we are working on about kinder conferences.
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