In this blog, our research communicator and PhD student Gemma Bridge shares three challenges of doing an internship alongside a PhD. This is the second of three posts about Gemma’s experience of doing an internship alongside her PhD. Together the three posts…
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In this blog, our research communicator and PhD student Gemma Bridge shares her experience of finding an internship whilst doing a PhD. Gemma previously contributed to our blog talking about the juggling act of a PhD student, managing personal and professional…
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In this blog I share four ways in which publishers were challenged in rethinking on the impact in academic publishing. Impact has become a buzzword in academia. It is key to the UK Research Excellence Framework and it’s regarded as…
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In this blog post, we share three reasons why presenting research in theatre is powerful. The inspiration for this blog came from watching the play ‘SHE’ at stage@leeds at the University of Leeds. The play depicted the lives of several women…
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In this blog post I share my experience of speaking at the research seminar series at Swansea University, School of Management. The topic of my seminar was communicating research beyond academia. This was a collaboration with Dr Cigdem Gedikli, Lecturer…
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In this blog post, we share our experience of organising our first meetup on communicating research. Although this was the first time we organised an event like this, based on the feedback we received from the participants, it was very…
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In this blog post we share an exciting update about celebrating our two year anniversary. To mark the event, we launched two exciting products and a fundraiser for Getaway Girls.
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This month I delivered an interactive workshop at the Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI). This was our flagship workshop on ‘Communicating research beyond academia’. To make this workshop happen, we collaborated with Katie Barclay, LSSI Communications and Events Coordinator. The…
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Our internship programme began on the 6th of September 2019. Our interns, Nida and Grace are taking the time to reflect on their half way journey. In this blog post, we get to know their challenges and learning opportunities and what…
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In this post we share three tips on the importance of failure for researchers. We’ll also touch on how failure can be turned into future successes for you and your work. These tips are inspired by the ‘Power of Failure’…
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