Sliding Serendipity
Last June I applied for a Research Support Award (RSA). It was granted and the only condition attached was to contribute a piece to this blog. In my three years at Manchester Met I’ve received an average of one…
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The Platelet Summer School: Attending training events for PhD students
Organised by the Platelet Society, the European Platelet Summer School is a three-day programme of seminars, open group discussions and practical workshops provided by leading international experts in platelet biology. The objective of this event is to introduce PhD…
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Endings and Beginnings
This year is the fourth year of what should have been a six-year part-time PhD by Practice in Creative Writing. Instead, it will probably be my last. While many researchers have been severely adversely impacted by the pandemic, I…
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How hard can it be to read?
I am Jeremy, a first-year MPhil student supervised by Dr Matthew Shardlow, and I am working on natural language processing, which is a cross-subject of computer science and linguistics. I believe anyone interested in sci-fiction must be familiar with…
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International Gothic Association Conference 2022: An Invaluable Opportunity for Disseminating Research, Networking, and Exploring Ireland’s Gothic Heritage
My first conference experience happened in 2018 when the International Gothic Association held their annual conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. After a conference the following year in Chicago and a two-year delay due to COVID-19, I was delighted to…
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Field update from the Tambopata Research Centre, Peru
Research Background: I study primate conservation ecology in the Peruvian Amazon. I am interested in the effect of habitat disturbance on Amazonian primate communities comprising of spider monkeys, howler monkeys, capuchins, titi monkeys, squirrel monkeys and tamarins. Understanding these…
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Professionalisation begins again!
I started my PhD journey unconventionally, certainly because it commenced in late 2020, when we were all locked down due to the on-going chaos caused by the unknown virus of unspecified origin, we all know as Covid. I went…
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Attending the BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference
In June 2022, I applied for the Research Support Award as I had applied to present at the Annual Developmental Psychology Section Research Conference with the BPS. I was thrilled when I was accepted to present at the event…
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Traditional Knowledge & Policy for Adaptation to Climate Change Impact
Though climate change is well documented in global, national, and regional scales, the understanding of how on local scales adaptation are carried out is not very well understood as climate change impact is said to differ from micro-ecology to…
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Heritage Language Maintenance through Family Language Investigation: a comparative study of four multilingual families in Manchester
I am currently researching heritage language maintenance through family language investigation: a comparative study of four multilingual families in Manchester. This study focuses on how the experience of multilinguals portrays their patterns, practices and instances of linguistic behaviour that…
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