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The First Year of My PhD: Advice For New Starts
A few weeks ago I was asked to give a short talk at one of the University of Aberdeen’s Postgraduate Research Student Induction sessions entitled ‘The First Year of My PhD’. It’s a short session for new postgraduate researcher students across all disciplines within the university, with the aim of demonstrating how varied PhD experiences…
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5 Science Books Everyone Should Read
Popular science books are one of my favourite things to read – probably because they give me a break from reading research papers which are often dry and difficult to follow, but they still give me the feeling of productivity. This category of scientific research in an easily-readable form that allows non-scientists to get to…
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A Trip to Oslo, Norway – February 2017
Travelling is something that I’ve always loved; I get itchy when I don’t have a trip booked – whether that’s to a new city, country or continent. I enjoy exploring new places and new cultures, and I knew that I’d like to take as many opportunities to travel from the day I started my PhD.…
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#365papers January Update
In my first post on this blog, I set myself 3 PhD-related goals for 2017. One of those goals was to read more widely, and more frequently, and I decided that doing the #365papers challenge would be a good way to do that. Here’s my first update, covering the month of January. Overall, I’ve found…
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Why Early Career Researchers Should do Public Engagement
Public involvement is a process that involves people with research, not as subjects or participants of that work, but as partners who work with researchers to plan, manage and carry out research. Involving the public is something that we’re seeing more and more of; often grant applications have a designated section for public involvement and…
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Academic Self-Care for PhD Students: Why & How?
January is always a weird month for me; everyone’s trying to get back into a routine with work, attempting to maintain resolutions to go to the gym regularly and eat healthily, and the weather is dark and gloomy – especially in Aberdeen. This week has been particularly tough for me, I’m lacking in motivation and…
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Doing a PhD in Health Services Research
As last week’s post explained, my PhD is in the field of Health Services Research and looks at the process of participant recruitment to clinical trials. My undergraduate degree was based in lab science, and as far as I know I’m the only person from my graduating cohort to leave the lab but remain in…
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Healthcare’s Dirty Little Secret: Results From Many Clinical Trials Remain Unreliable
I wrote this article along with my PhD Supervisors, Prof Shaun Treweek and Dr Katie Gillies at the University of Aberdeen. We originally published this work on The Conversation in October 2016, and I’ve republished it here under Creative Commons licence 4.0 as I think it gives a good background to the topics and issues…
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Hello 2017: Setting New Goals
2016 was a strange year for me, and I’m looking forward to making 2017 a success story. Here are my 3 PhD-related goals for the year ahead.
Heidi R. Green 