Reading Time: 5 minutes …by Mia / from the USA / studied Palaeontology and Geobiology / graduated 2023 Last month, I appeared in an episode of the BBC’s The Sky At Night about the search for alien life. Being on TV talking about my astrobiology research literally felt out of this world. How did I get here? As a […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Audrey / from Belgium / studying MSc Environmental Sustainability / graduated 2021 It’s that exciting and nerve-wracking period before your start at University, and you’re asking yourself so many questions, trying to piece together what your life might look like in a few weeks’ time: where am I going to live? Who am I […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute …by Ellie / from Birmingham / studied Business Management / graduated 2019 It’s finally here, the week my dissertation is due. Watch my student vlog to see the ups and downs of submitting a dissertation at the University of Edinburgh and the post hand in celebrations.  

Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Ida / from Scotland / MSc Clinical Trials (online) / Graduate As I progressed through my surgical training in Otorhinolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat), I found that I have a lot of clinical questions like the outcome of particular surgical techniques, reliability of certain screening methods and many more, that I cannot simply find […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Georgia / from Scotland / studied MBChB Medicine / graduated early in 2020 I am Georgia, a newly qualified doctor having just graduated from the University of Edinburgh. I went to school in Edinburgh and attended various Reach events before applying to medicine. You may have seen me helping at Reach events over the […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Stuart / from Scotland / studied MBChB Medicine / graduated early in 2020 My name is Stuart and I am one of the newly qualified junior doctors! I am from Edinburgh originally, going to Boroughmuir High School, and was involved in the Reach programme both as a school student and throughout medical school. I […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Lila / History of Art & English Literature Student / 2015-2019 In June 2018, I started an internship with ISG as an ‘Academic Blogging Intern’. Despite my work being primarily centred around writing help resources and testing our blogging service, reactions to my job title were usually led by an inquisitive ‘ooooo, so you […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes by Chiara / from Austria / PhD Neuroscience 2016-2019