Reading Time: 5 minutesOur graduates share candid reflections on balancing full-time work, building critical appraisal and leadership skills, and joining a truly global cohort – plus how the dissertation year and supportive tutors helped translate learning into career momentum.

Reading Time: 3 minutesAreej Almutairi is pursuing a PhD to improve the early identification of stroke during emergency calls. We spoke to her about why she chose Edinburgh, how she balances PhD life, and her advice for future students considering the journey.

Reading Time: 4 minutesFinal year online Master of Public Health student Georgie Willoughby explains what she learned doing her ‘Student-Led Individually Created Course’.

Reading Time: 6 minutesYvonne Kerr reflects on her time as a part-time online learning student, balancing family life and a full-time career.

Reading Time: 3 minutesMaster of Public Health student Amal reflects on conducting a project on the health implications of abortion bans in the United States.

Reading Time: 4 minutesPhD researcher Dominic discusses his research journey from an undergraduate focus on immunology to a PhD using network analysis and bioinformatics.

Reading Time: 6 minutesGrace Lewis, a graduate of our Master of Public Health programme, shares her experience of writing a journal article from her masters dissertation.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe emergence of a global pandemic has led to a newfound interest in epidemiology. But what is epidemiology? Who can study it? What sort of jobs do epidemiology graduates do?