Still really excited that I am featured in the latest edition of ‘Voice’ magazine! My time as an observer on the RSC’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee really has made such a difference to my goals and outlook on my future career.
Me: being a grumpy, writing gremlin.
One of @MOFsoton’s students: gets me lemon iced tea 🥰 summer students @UoSChem_ChemEng@unisouthampton are the sweetest!
One of the best things I have done to help alleviate some of the crippling imposter syndrome I have. PhDs are a hard journey and there is ZERO point in suffering in silence. I really recommend any higher education people embrace this! 👩🏽🔬 #WomeninSTEM@unisouthampton@SoCoBioDtp
@ZJAyres@sotonbiosci@sotonbsps Thanks so much! I think it’s hard in an academic setting (I don’t have enough experience elsewhere to comment) to engage openness and attendance on mental well-being activities, so I really hope engaging with smaller activities will help build up support networks 🤞🏼
@sotonbiosci PGRs: there’s a coffee morning this Friday! Come meet and chat with your peers and have a warm beverage 😊 if you’re feeling ‘it’s all good’ when you’re feeling anything but, it really does help to have others around you to talk to for your mental well-being 😌
@DrCBrew Tbf he does look like he’d be a strong asset in your future leaders endeavours. I’d vote him in no questions asked, I’m sure your feeding time keeping would have been a great reference. Best of luck to you 🤞🏼
@MOFSoton Agreed. The number of people I know who use academia (and I quote) ‘necessary evil stepping stone’ to get to industry. It’s a shame it’s that way but industry does seem shiny and nice
So proud to have been a part of this! It’s important to talk and to build a supportive network during your PhD: round 2 of mine has certainly been more successful because of it. Hopefully this can become a widespread practice everywhere @unisouthampton@UoSDocCollege 👀 👩🏽🔬🧪🧬
Delighted to announce @SoCoBioDtp's new reflexivity initiative to support PhD student wellbeing is published in eLife. Read more here https://t.co/kM0mNtwYS9 and the our ambitions to embed reflexivity into post-graduate research programmes both nationally and internationally.
Really recommend any PGRs who will be presenting at some point to practice here- I’m horribly anxious and it helps to have constructive feedback from people who aren’t your peers. Plus the team are so lovely 🥰 still think I need to work on my presentation face…