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Funding Applications and Good News

Heidi Gardner - May 20, 2016

A few months ago I submitted my first ever grant application (as a Co-Applicant with my main Supervisor as Principal Applicant and my second Supervisor as another Co). The funding…

Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.

Emily Garside - October 21, 2015

I’ll let you all into a secret, as much as I am passionate about my PhD as something I wanted and needed to write, I’m not that excited about academic…

Life after a PhD

Emma Monaghan - July 23, 2015

Hi, I’m Emma and I’m a PhD survivor! It’s crazy to think that I submitted my PhD thesis nearly 10 months ago now. Let me take you through my post-PhD…

What To Do Whilst Waiting

Irena Larking - July 31, 2014

  I’m travelling home to Brisbane from Auckland and I’m sitting in a cramped plane seat, waiting for the next 3 hours and 20 minutes to pass by as quickly…

New Year, PhD?

Heather Doran - January 10, 2011

At New Year people take time to reflect and start to plan for the year ahead. I imagine some people will be exploring the possibility of starting a PhD so…

The Power of Graphs

Haris Aziz - February 27, 2009

Graphs are mathematical structures that model pairwise relations between objects.  They are represented by vertices and edges where the edges may be directed or undirected. Whenever I am working on…

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Grant Applications

Haris Aziz - January 2, 2009

My university recently arranged a grant writing guidance session. The following were some of the lessons I came away with.

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Funding For Travel

Haris Aziz - August 28, 2008

Concerns about funding for conferences and workshops have been a ongoing theme in my conversations with other graduate students. This is especially the case in the UK where doctoral students…

Vitae

Haris Aziz - August 21, 2008

The following is an excerpt from a press release on the UK GRAD Programme website. It is the launch of a national organization to support doctoral students and researchers. It…

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EPSRC Funding Applications

Haris Aziz - July 9, 2008

I was recently at a university which prides itself on maintaining links with the industry and getting funding for hot research projects from the research councils. I managed to attend…

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