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COVID-19 Lessons learnt from a PhD thesis submission
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Academia The importance of sustainable public funding in academic research
During the first week of November 2020, I had the pleasure to participate at Hill Week next to amazing and inspiring colleagues…
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Early Career Research Community PhD training in the 21st century: is there something missing?
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, many universities and affiliated research centres tried to transfer all their events online. From online thesis…
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Early Career Research Community Academic collaborations: Friend or foe?
I started my PhD in my current lab in 2016 and since then I have participated in over 5 national and international…
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Early Career Research Community Combining business administration and STEM
“You will what?” was a very common reaction when I was announcing to my friends and colleagues that I was about to start…
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Early Career Research Community Diversity and equity in society and academia: An after-lab-hours chat
This article is different since it is not about sharing my personal experience. This time I did what I should have done…
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Early Career Research Community Planning for future job-hunting during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic found me at the end of my PhD, and even though my graduation plans will be delayed, I will…
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Early Career Research Community Undusting microscopes and warming up fingers to pipette after a month
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a lot of ECRs have been through a lot of ups and downs juggling between rearranging bench-based experiments and…