Oh geez, I haven’t updated my blog since June. The reason is that I’ve been really busy finishing my PhD. It’s a rather drawn-out process which confused many of my friends and family. After I handed in at the end of September lots of people were excitedly asking if I’d finished. Then I had to […]
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I’m really excited to have been selected to present a poster at the University of Manchester Postgraduate Summer Research Showcase again. It’s such a special event because it brings together postgraduates from all disciplines to share their work. As a PhD student, it’s easy to forget about the breath of research being done at the
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Just before Christmas, I was fortunate to be awarded an Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) public engagement grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop some new activities to help explain my lab’s stroke research. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working really hard to get everything ready for our first event in June.
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In a break from convention, here’s a more personal post about why I think volunteering has had a positive impact on my PhD life. In my spare time, I’m an assistant cub scout at 23rd Manchester Scout Group and have been since April 2016. I was involved in scouting as a child for almost 10
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Happy New Year! I know it’s a little late but I did have the flu. For my first post of 2018, here’s a quick round up of my favourite regenerative medicine stories from the past year: Stem Cells Were Sent into Space! How cool is that? Starting out with a literal highlight (cue sarcastic laughing),
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Here’s a couple of questions I’m often asked when I tell people I’m a regenerative medicine PhD student. What is regenerative medicine? Regenerative medicine is a really exciting and fast moving field of research that aims to develop therapies to repair or replace tissues and organs damaged by disease or injury. There are a number
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