Research Education and DevelopmentPhD experiences

How to be a good conference goer (Tseen Khoo)

Photo by Evan Forester(Creative Commons 2.0) Many years ago, when I had to give my...

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Reading, Writing, Supporting (Anthony Condon)

They say a PhD is a lonely road. It’s all too easy to spend all day behind the...

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Get your butt off the lawn (Lucie Semenec and Jen Wood)

Some areas of our campus are still beautifully undamaged by our waste. Let’s make...

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Isolation (Nicholas Anthony)

Photo by Erlend Ekseth | unsplash.com “I work with lasers.” These four simple...

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Can you actually enjoy a PhD? Notes from someone who did (Merryn Sherwood)

Photo by 301+ Kim | unsplash.com The PhD roller coaster – it’s a much-used...

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What you need to do before you go to a conference (Jo Byrne)

Photo by Calum MacAulay | unsplash.com Conferences can be awesome! You get to listen...

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Why you need a triple backup strategy (Merran Williams)

Image credit: Perspecsys Photos A couple of weeks ago, a bushfire went through the...

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Notes to my grad researcher self (Erika Duan)

Image/doodle by Erika Duan They say that hindsight is always 20/20. So, this is the...

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A little help from my friends (Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere)

Photo by Anoir Chafik | unsplash.com As researchers, we spend our lives thinking,...

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