Last year I read seven PhD Thesisiseeses (well, you tell me the plural of thesis!). Yes, that is too many to read in one year, no, I did not plan it that way. The task was made far more manageable by the fact that each student understood the need to support their thesis reader through…
Recently, Catherine worked with final year medical student, Caitlin Riach, on a project exploring what visting and staying in hospital is like for autistic children, and what parents think should be done to improve this. Caitlin has written the following blog about her research, and has made an infographic to share the key messages. …
At a couple of events in the near future, my colleague Natalie Jenkins and I will be speaking about supporting autistic people studying and working in Universities. Our qualifications for this? Natalie is an autistic person studying and working in a University. And I am her mentor. Natalie is brilliant at her job, but sometimes…
This is the latest in the blog series co-authored by myself and the extraordinary Duncan Astle. After a brief hiatus we are back with our latest post – how to put together a great poster. Designing an attractive and informative poster is an incredibly useful skill, especially for early-career researchers. For any non-academic readers –…
Rather than attempt a single blog covering all aspects of grant-writing, Duncan Astle and I are continuing our blog series of advice to newly-fledged researchers by focusing on the challenges of costing a new grant. Costing a grant means working out exactly where money will be spent, and being realistic about what it is going…
Back in 2014 I wrote this blog post about managing your supervisor. The post was a way to consolidate some thoughts about my preferred supervision style. Since then I have shared the link with every new student who comes to work with me and it has been hugely useful. Now, three years on, and with a lot…
This has been a great couple of months as two studies – not huge, but important to me – have recently yielded really super results. And I don’t mean results in the usual sense (for scientists) – significant differences between groups, correlational relationships… I mean results as in, outputs that people can actually use (or…
As my current ‘tenure-track’ post evolves, I am taking on more and more student supervision at undergraduate, taught Masters and PhD level. I am also doing quite a lot of interdisciplinary supervision which gives me a chance to work with a range of more experienced supervisors who are also from different backgrounds.
I am absolutely delighted to say that our commercial partners, Interface 3, have recently released the full version of the Click-East project app on iTunes, in the form of an update to the original app.