Reading Time: < 1 minute …by Annet / from the Netherlands / studying MSc Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition / graduated 2019 This vlog was from August – the time of dissertation writing for University of Edinburgh Masters degree students. Annet provides an update on what she’s been doing for the last academic year, and what she has thought of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Amy / from Canada / PhD Population Health Sciences / 1st Year One day after a long day of work, I clicked on a short documentary on YouTube about single women in China. The main character featured in the video happened to be a female PhD student majoring in microbiology. Apparently, currently in Chinese […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Madalena / from Portugal / PhD Evolutionary and Developmental Biology / 2nd Year Se estás mal, muda-te – a portuguese saying You might be wondering why I wrote something in another language that by yourself you cannot understand. It is a Portuguese saying that in the essence means if you are not okay, change […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Catherine / from the United Kingdom / PhD Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society / 1st Year This is my fourth degree. Basically, I’m addicted to learning. It turns out I also love being on the other side of the lectern, which is just as well given how integral teaching is in an academic […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute …by Annet / from the Netherlands / studying MSc Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition / graduated 2019 In this video, Annet tells us how she went through the process of finding a masters and the application procedure at the University of Edinburgh for postgraduate taught applicants. Follow Annet’s adventures on her YouTube channel, Ferrentes: https://edin.ac/2vSJpaZ […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Joshua / from the United Kingdom / PhD Genetics and Molecular Medicine / 2nd Year I’ve written about my adventures in America and throughout the UK in previous posts (although there’s more to come!), so I thought this time I’d go into a bit more detail about day-to-day life at the Institute of Genetics […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Margret / from Estonia / Studying MSc Digital Society / 1st year When I got my acceptance letter in June I was absolutely thrilled, but there was only one problem – I had to wait two months until the start of uni, which seemed absolutely unbearable! I remember getting my first university email and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Bérengère / from France / PhD Psychiatry / 5th Year Last year I attended my 1st big international conference, INSAR, and it left me ever-so-slightly traumatised (read more about it here). Now brace yourself for INSAR 2, the return of INSAR, INSAR strikes back. Well the good news is, it gets better! Overall, I […]