We have now entered April, and as a masters student on a one year full time programme the realisation that your time here is winding down is a bitter – sweet one. For those of us with dissertations and similar project activities, we will not fully be done until September, but the ever present thought […]
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Going to conferences is one of the most exciting parts of being a researcher. It’s an opportunity to share your work with the wider research community, network with others, and get inspiration. One of my favourite parts of a conference is the poster session. I love the challenge of condensing research into a poster format […]
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Writing research papers is one of the most obvious research outputs of a PhD. As a physics PGR, it’s the norm for people in my field to publish 2 or 3 papers from their PhD research. Whether PhD students should be required to publish is a conversation for another day, but in this blog, I’ll share […]
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Welcome to Manor Park! Manor Park, one of the University of Surrey’s three campuses, consists of The Surrey Sports Park, The School of Veterinary Medicine, The Leggett Building and the majority of the Student Accommodation provided by the University. Located a fifteen minute walk or five minute bus ride to the main campus: Stag Hill, […]
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The confirmation viva is a short oral examination that you do at the end of your first year as a PhD student at Surrey. You will be asked to submit a report summarising the work you’ve done over the first year and a plan for the rest of your PhD project. Essentially, this process is […]
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When you are a disabled and/or neurodivergent PhD student, things can be a bit more challenging, to say the least. I’ve previously written about accessing disability and neurodiversity support as a postgraduate student on this blog (you can find that post here), but today I want to share some of the reasonable adjustments I have […]
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