https://medium.com/p/a0ff5f7a4686/edit (Warning: this is long..... not unlike my PhD.) @The Flying Chipmunk Tired eyes White liesTime fliesMy soul cries.Catching up with newsNo time to loseNot even to hit snoozeCertain to confuseMy exhausted mindNot the efficient kindConcentration hard to findForever falling behindNever-ending to-do listsFrustration in clenched fistsAwaiting magical twistsOr interventions of psychologists.Always thinking I can do … Continue reading PhD life
Category: PhD Experience
Teaching on Zoom: The new norm
By Tarnjit Sidhu For PhD students, teaching is a brilliant way of getting hands on experience of working with students and building your CV, especially if you’re wanting to progress within academia. There are many ways of getting involved with teaching opportunities at UoM, for example The Brilliant Club, Manchester Access Programme (MAP), and general … Continue reading Teaching on Zoom: The new norm
Hive Vibes (June 2021)
The June Bug Already it's been 6 months of 2021 and the summer sun has shone upon us. The smell of summer, taste of flies and feeling of casual optimism is slowly returning in abundance. Bringing with it warmer temperatures, June could not have come too soon. It’s the perfect month for al fresco dining, … Continue reading Hive Vibes (June 2021)
PhD-Overwhelmed? How to say Yes and No
By Jack Sharpen Currently whelmed Overwhelmed is a weird word. Etymologically, its derivative whelmen is the Middle English for capsizing/overturning, so prefixing with “over-” is reinforcing one point: you’re kind of doomed. Being overwhelmed isn’t a rare occurrence for us Hive readers: postgraduates, staff and all in-between academics have a higher proportion of teetering on … Continue reading PhD-Overwhelmed? How to say Yes and No
When your research is so good someone else does it first
Mashed Potatoes in a Bowl By Nadine Mirza During one of my regular perusals of updated literature in my area, I came across a paper published only a little while back. A well crafted study that was an enjoyable read and incredibly relevant to my own work. One might say too relevant. In fact, it … Continue reading When your research is so good someone else does it first
Celebrating International Women’s Day in the Division of Population Health
Melissa Surgey Staff and students from across the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care (and wider) came together in March to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) and Women’s History Month. I’ve written previously for Research Hive about why it’s important to mark these events, both as a way to celebrate the … Continue reading Celebrating International Women’s Day in the Division of Population Health
10 top tips for zapping Zoom fatigue
By Olivia Wong “I’ve Zoomed out” - if someone had uttered this phrase to us a year ago, we would have likely tilted our head slightly to one side with a flummoxed look on our face. Unless we were on our computer scaling down the resolution to see the bigger picture of an image too … Continue reading 10 top tips for zapping Zoom fatigue
Citizen Science: How your friends and family can get involved?
By Julieta O'Flaherty We tend to think of research as being carried out solely by scientists that have undergone 8+ years of training, working in experimental labs with dangerous chemicals and expensive equipment. Usually far beyond translation to the clinic. Whilst this is fundamental for research and science overall, there are many ways in which … Continue reading Citizen Science: How your friends and family can get involved?
International Women’s Day: Our Favourite Female Reads
Melissa Surgey International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked around the world on Monday 8th March. It is both a global day of celebration of the achievements and contributions of women in all aspects of society, and a call to action to accelerate gender equality. Celebrations this year are noticeably different as many of us are … Continue reading International Women’s Day: Our Favourite Female Reads
Optimising Sleep and Managing Stress
By Jason Chu This February the MRC DTP Keynote Seminar team invited Dr Marc Milstein to the University of Manchester to talk about sleep and stress. After earning his PhD in Biological Chemistry from UCLA, he continued his research in a range of topics from genetics, cancer, neuroscience and infectious disease. Since then he’s used … Continue reading Optimising Sleep and Managing Stress
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