Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – Hear from our Previous Entrants
We’re delighted to share blogs from doctoral students Kelly Curtis, the People’s Choice Award winner and David Jackson, the Judges’ Choice Award runner up from the 2024 Three Minute Thesis Competition, about their experiences and why they think our…
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Reflecting on the Doctoral Student Conference 2024
Owen Greenwood and Tobin O’Connor from the Doctoral Student Conference Committee 2024 share their experiences below. There is still time to sign up to join the 2025 committee! Please email doctoralconference@mmu.ac.uk to find out more and register your interest….
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Reflecting on the Doctoral College Launch
On Thursday 25 January, the Doctoral College was officially launched, celebrating a new home for our community to collaborate, enhance our research activities and build strong connections both within the University and with external partners. We had a jam-packed…
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Meet the Team series: The PGR Lifecycle Project
The first in the Graduate School’s ‘Meet the Team’ series, we’ve asked Justine Abbott, Graduate School Consultant leading on the PGR Lifecycle Project to tell us more about the project and what it means for PGRs. What is the…
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Doing a PhD with an energy-limiting illness
Before Long COVID many people were unaware of post-viral illnesses; I was too until I became ill a few years ago. I was diagnosed with ME/CFS (Myalgic encephalomyelitis), or chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition characterised by widespread pain, immune and nervous system dysfunction, and a whole host of other symptoms on top of bone-crushing…
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