Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Caitlin / from the UK / studying Public Health / 3rd year I started the MPH at the University of Edinburgh because I wanted a change. I had spent 10 years as a laboratory scientist in the infectious diseases field; when the pandemic hit and my lab was closed, like so many others I […]

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: 2 minutes …by Sarah / from Indonesia / studying Veterinary Medicine / 1st year Hello everyone! It’s Sarah, a first year student on the 5-year BVM&S course. Easter holidays are now over and we’re back on campus after a long break that was joyously filled with lambing. This was my first lambing EMS placement, where I assisted […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Scarlett / from the USA / studying MA (Hons) History and Politics / 4th year It’s Wednesday, February 2nd… 8.00am – Typically when I wake up and the first thing to do is grab a cup of tea and breakfast. I can’t say that I’m always waking up this time or getting up right […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Aurelia / from the UK / studying MSc International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law / Postgraduate Online Learner Whether you study full time or part time, face to face or online, at undergraduate or postgraduate level, balancing your studies around the rest of your life is a challenge. But, overcoming this challenge is key […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Andrew / from London / studying Biodiversity, Wildlife & Ecosystem Health (MSc) / Postgraduate Online Learning Programme I am in the third year of my programme of online study with the University of Edinburgh, and it is very easy to notice that this final instalment of my MSc journey feels rather ‘different’. The first […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Hannah / from the UK / studying History / 3rd year When starting my History degree, I was interested in taking courses outside of my subject area to both investigate possible career options and to build upon skills I had learnt in school. I was excited by the possibility of taking on subjects I […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Theoklitos / from Greece / studying PhD Precision Medicine / 3rd Year In this short essay, I would like to talk about the way in which stoicism is both a skill required to thrive (and survive) during a PhD project, but also a mindset which naturally evolves through all the hardships you face in […]