Written by Jaydeep Bhadra & Alex Christiansen Hello everyone! We celebrated the Loughborough University PhD Awards 2022 on 29th of July 2022 to recognize the achievements and contributions of Doctoral Researchers (DRs) and staff to the University’s DR community. Following a bit of restitution, it is long due for us to reflect on the event. […]
SDCA – Wenyan Luo Hi everyone. I am Wenyan Luo and I am the lead representative for the school of Design and Creative Arts. This is the first year of my PhD. I am looking forward to working with the DR Reps from SDCA and collaborating with all the Lead Reps to improve the DR […]
Written by Alex Christiansen Merry half-ways-to-holidays, everyone! It’s finally time for an update! We have been generally quiet on here and on the blog for a while now, but a bunch of things have been going on in the background. We have quite a bit to go through, so without further ado Teaching Opportunities In […]
Hi, everybody! Another year dawns, and with it a new presidential team is taking over the recurring presidential team blog. I want to begin as one should begin all important and timely endeavours, by apologising for being late. We originally wanted to introduce ourselves much earlier but as tends to happen in academia, things took […]
Written by Dr Katryna Kalawsky During University Graduation ceremonies it’s easy to make a visual distinction between a graduating Doctoral Researcher (DR), a Postgraduate Taught student (aka a Masters Student) and an Undergraduate just by looking at their attire…but purple floppy hat aside, there are a LOT of differences between DRs and taught students than […]
Written by Nathan Ritchie As I approach the end of my tenure as Doctoral Researcher President, I want to write my final blog for Doctoral College and reflect on the past academic year and say some words of thanks. Being a representative, an active one that is, is full of peaks and pits, but I […]
Written by Nathan Ritchie and Callie Merrick Hi there! It’s been a while! I am excited to write this blog to tell you all about our activities the last couple of months. This blog will be highlight some key developments from the past few months and get you up to date with some of our […]
During this year’s Doctoral Wellbeing Fortnight, we asked Doctoral Researchers to contribute towards our PHooD blog series (PhD + Food = PHooD!) by sharing their ‘go-to’ recipes that are tasty and either quick to make and/or nutritious and/or cheap and/or comforting… enjoy! Banana Pancakes – Recipe by Tunmike Olowe For more of Tunmike’s delicious recipes check […]
During this year’s Doctoral Wellbeing Fortnight, we asked Doctoral Researchers to contribute towards our PHooD blog series (PhD + Food = PHooD!) by sharing their ‘go-to’ recipes that are tasty and either quick to make and/or nutritious and/or cheap and/or comforting… enjoy! Chocolate Fondant/Lava Cake – Recipe by Katrina Duncumb The nutritiousness of these could definitely […]
During this year’s Doctoral Wellbeing Fortnight, we asked Doctoral Researchers to contribute towards our PHooD blog series (PhD + Food = PHooD!) by sharing their ‘go-to’ recipes that are tasty and either quick to make and/or nutritious and/or cheap and/or comforting… enjoy! Fish Sauce and Pasta – Recipe by Tunmike Olowe For more of Tunmike’s delicious […]