Advice and tips from our current postgraduate researchers. If you would like to contribute advice, of it there’s a topic you would like us to cover, please contact us on gscommunications@mmu.ac.uk.
How to focus when you can’t – and other tips(!)
It’s always a pleasure to meet new research students at the beginning of your journey at my Managing your Research Project development session each year. However, I’m aware right now that there are lots of you (us!) having to…
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Study, stress and self-care: getting the right balance
My research is focused on how stress and alcohol (both individually and in combination) impact brain activity and cognitive performance, as prolonged stress exposure may be a potential pathway to alcohol and substance misuse. Since our brains are still…
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Finding your Own Style
Joseph Massey reflects on the pleasures and challenges of research through the lockdown.
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Partners, Pets, and PhDs
April 2020 A few weeks ago, when the world was different, I began to write my second entry to this blog. With all the changes that have happened since then, the blog felt miniscule, irrelevant. It is only as…
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Brilliant Research and Teaching
In this post, I wanted to share with you some work I’ve done with the Brilliant Club, a charity that puts PhD students into schools.
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Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2019
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a competition that challenges doctoral students to describe their research to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes, using only one slide and no other resources or props. Mary Lockwood (Manchester Met winner and…
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My learning goal for 2019: Asking better questions
I don’t really do new year resolutions, but in the past I have set myself what we might call ‘learning goals’ each year. Over the course of last year, for example, I wanted to become better at empathy. Whilst…
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