All PGRs are invited to the premiere of Susie Self’s new opera, Quilt Song. The opera is part of Susie’s PhD work at BCU and offers a challenge to traditional operatic forms and styles. The opera takes place at The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th October, 7-8.50pm. Tickets […]
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About the experience (not the research) with Angela English In this series, we sit down with a current (or recent) PhD researcher and actively try not to talk about their research. Instead, we chat about their experience of doing a PhD, how they cope with the pressures and workload, and hopefully, find out something […]
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Have you ever felt that your brain is so full of research ideas that it is about to burst? Have you ever felt that your PhD thoughts are so disarranged and colourful that they resemble a bouquet of flowers? Have you ever felt that it would be a lot better if you could just get […]
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Before Easter, we took part in … PressED: a WordPress and Education, Pedagogy and Research Conference on Twitter. Armed with plenty of coffee at Yorks Bakery, we embarked on our first Twitter conference experience. It was a chaotic, fun, operationally complex (involving multiple laptops, people live tweeting simultaneously and timekeeping par excellence from Emily) and […]
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For those of you who haven’t heard of it, New Generation Thinkers (NGT) is a scheme for early career researchers and postdocs run by both the AHRC and the BBC. In the past two years, BCU has enjoyed some success in the competition, with Dr Islam Issa appointed as a New Generation Thinker in 2017 […]
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As an academic researcher, you’re probably comfortable with the idea of communicating your research at a conference or in a journal paper. But what about reaching a wider audience, can you pick out popular interest stories from your research, and does the prospect of being interviewed by a newspaper journalist (or on TV) make you […]
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