A reflection by Vanessa Cumper, PGR in FASS International Week of Deaf People has happened every year since 1958, though I guess it just passes silently by most people. Another event I am sure you have never heard of is the Deaflympics, held every four years since 1924 (Paris). A little known fact; Deaflympics is […]
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Careers and employability support available for PGRs and ECRs through the Doctoral College Congratulations if you are nearing completion! As you work on the last pages of your thesis, you may have a job already set up, or perhaps the need to find work is playing on your mind…? Looking for a job can be […]
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When I first walked through the University of Surrey’s campus in February 2022 to begin my new role, I was delighted to see that the powers that be had themed the student-support centre around honeybees. In case the building’s name of ‘MySurrey Hive’ and the cartoon images of buzzing bees on the outside did not […]
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The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically […]
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As things quieten down at the University over the summer, here are some suggestions of places to visit if you are a researcher looking for ideas of local spaces to stimulate your intellectual mind or escape to in between experiments and data crunching! All hard-working researchers need a break and some fun to sustain themselves… […]
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The next in our series of conversations with staff and PGRs from minority groups is with two female PGRs from the Department of Mathematics, Jessica Furber and Laura Jones. Do you feel you are treated differently, or have a different experience, as a woman doing a STEM subject? Laura: I don’t think I have been […]
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