Guest Blog Post from Iain Davidson: Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Consultant www.iaindavidson.com Why should you show your research work in three minutes to a live audience of complete strangers? Are you crazy? Why should you even attend a training course? All that unfinished research, all those half written papers, …
This semester we have two international guest speakers delivering workshops for the IAD PhD programme: Seven Secrets of a Highly Successful Research Student 4/3/16 Hugh Kearns, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia What do research higher degree (RHD) students do to finish on time, to overcome isolation, doubt and writer’s block, and …
Edinburgh Local Gradschool 2016. 18th – 20th May 2016 The Edinburgh GRADschool is an experiential 3-day non-residential learning course, designed for doctoral researchers in the last 18 months of their PhD, aiming to raise participants’ awareness of their personal and professional transferable skills. The course uses small facilitated groups to …
Are you interested in contributing to Equal Bite, a crowd-sourced ‘recipe’ book focusing on gender equality in higher education? The aim of the project is to draw on the experiences and insights of our staff and students and share practical actions we can take (individually and as an institution) which …
Do you have an idea for a project or event that could support your development as well as the development of others? The University recognises the importance of researchers having a choice in how they develop their transferable skills and the Researcher-Led Initiative Fund supports this. So what is it? …
We run the following statistics courses for PhD Students: Introductory Statistics for Life Scientists – Level 1 This is a 5 week course delivered entirely on-line within Learn (the University’s virtual learning environment, VLE). It will introduce students to the basic principles of statistical thinking (statistical inference) and one or …
Tickets are now available for the University of Edinburgh 3 Minute Thesis Final on 20th June! If you would like to come along and support the finalists you can register for a free ticket here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/3-minute-thesis-2014-university-final-tickets-11615786129 This event will also be live web streamed and details on how you can to …
Many PhD researchers spend up to a year conducting fieldwork, and frequently this is overseas. The fieldwork experience can often be one of the most enriching parts of your research but it can also be challenging. The IAD has run several workshops on fieldwork and here are some of the …
Guest Blog Post from Dr Mike Capaldi, Commercialisation Director – Edinburgh BioQuarter Scotland has always been at the forefront of life science innovation with Edinburgh having played a key role, from Lister’s discovery of antiseptic, Simpson’s discovery of chloroform and the creation of the first genetically engineered vaccine (for hepatitis …
Guest blog post from Dr Joanna Young, Director of The Scientific Editing Company Every now and again a researcher needs to escape from their daily stomping ground to reflect. The second half of a Ph.D. has a tendency to be all consuming: you have battled through the insecurity of your …
