I’ve started my own podcast! I’ll be breaking down academic research papers and explaining things in an accessible way. Here’s a short preview of episode 1 to give you an idea of what you might expect. In the first episode … Continue reading Research in Plain English – A New Science Podcast
The First Few Months: My experience as a New PhD Starter Congratulations, you have been offered a place on this PhD program. Please sign your life away below on the dotted line. And so, following the final few assignments from my masters degree, I was set to be a PhD candidate – certainly never something I would have ever imagined being a reality when I first started university! The Initial Excitement…and Apprehension First day at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia in the Norwich Research Park, this feels incredibly surreal. Being surrounded by such talented people … Continue reading The Start of My PhD Journey
This blog marks the end of the #365DaysOfScience challenge on Twitter. This involves tweeting about my research, PhD life or other science which I find interesting every single day for an entire year.
As of today, I have officially tweeted day 365 of 365! Continue reading #365DaysOfScience: A Year in the Life of a PhD Student
Hi there! Welcome to The Postgrad’s Perspective. Who’s the postgrad? Well, that’ll be me! This is my blog about my life as a postgraduate PhD student and (…wait for it) my perspective on science. So who am I? My name is Danny Ward. I am a PhD researcher at the John Innes Centre/University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. This is me below! I work on human and bacterial pathogens (a fancy word for diseases) by carrying out molecular biology, microbiology and biochemistry-based laboratory research. I started in October 2017 so I am still quite new! Before my position at … Continue reading My First Post – Who am I?
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