This year I have 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…
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.
