So excited to be part of this project where we have a real opportunity to have the voices of OU WELS PGRs heard. Sign up to join us now - there’s a new recruitment channel on the WELS PGR Community team to register
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19. Support crew
It’s good to have a support crew. But you have to put time into developing your support crew. You can’t just expect people to turn up when you need them, if you haven’t put the work in first. From: 52 Ways to Stay Well: buff.ly/2S21zQq

First paper! We discuss urban woodland structure and its impact on #butterflies . Thanks to Phil Wheeler Yoseph Araya as co-authors & Blanca Huertas for the proof read and support + everyone else who listened to me go on about this for the past year! link.springer.com/article/10.100… OUGradSchool

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week 2024. This is important for us all, as we all have mental health 🧠......

A great resource to help that can be used freely -design patterns for mental health 🙂

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So, last Tuesday I successfully defended my PhD thesis and am embarking on two year post-doc with AstrobiologyOU!! 🥳 Can't wait continue working with this incredible group! A huge thanks to my supervisors, parents, family, and friends. Without you, I'd have been lost.

#StayWellinResearch
18. Guilt
I can usually spot a researcher or research student about 20 metres away. The way I recognise them is by the big black cloud of guilt that hovers just over their heads. They always feel guilty. From: 52 Ways to Stay Well. buff.ly/2S21zQq

Walton Hall getting spruced up ⁦The Open University⁩

Congratulations Savana Woodley for making an impact Peter Fawdon Matt Balme OUGradSchool

Well it’s been a rollercoaster of a week for service co-design week-notes 54. Now for planning an important week. Have a good one OUGradSchool #phdlife #designresearch #designleadership #servicedesign #codesign #servicetransformation #designjustice

Congratulations to Panos on coming 2nd in the poster competition at the RSC Organic Chemistry Community South & East Region Meeting 2024 last week. Faculty of STEM, The Open University OUGradSchool

Thank you Pat Nevin for you kind words about last week’s Mercury episode of BBC Radio 4 In Our Time in this week’s POTW. I heard you at Edinburgh Sci Fest a few years ago (3rd player to receive the ball must shoot at goal!) & it means a lot coming from you. Bepi will be gr8.

The PhD Pony is a willful and bumpy bareback ride but I seem to have successfully crossed the finish line. Excited to share that I passed my viva today - with NO corrections!!! A little saddle-sore, but nothing a day or two of decompression therapy won't fix: 💤🍫🍹🍃🪷🥾 #PhDone

Soggy afternoon of woodland fieldwork with Holly Woo but we were rewarded with some gorgeous early purple orchids 🪻🍃 #phdlife OU: Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences

Hoping the trains will be kind tomorrow evening for my journey to #HAConf24 , my talk is (I think...) finally ready, and now looking forward to being in Birmingham for a few days

A guest of honour at today’s ceremony!
Looking amazing in his gown 🙌

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PhD essentials - cat, chocolate & a stats book. #phdlife OUGradSchool OU Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies