I was relatively young when the Bosnian war started, in 1992. When it became clear that something terrible was going to start, we moved to another place to live with my grandparents. Not a single bomb exploded there during the four-year war.
Explosions in the neighbouring city were violent enough to be heard in that place…
During the first six months of my PhD in Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces Centre of Doctoral Training (SOFI CDT), I and 20 other PhD students (Cohort 5 of SOFI) had the opportunity to act as “consultants” as part of our training of understanding soft matter science within an industrial and multidisciplinary context.
One coincidental meeting with a stranger means I’ll be graduating from university with far more than just a degree; we’ve created a global platform for students.
Durham University is a unique environment, merging people with a huge array of backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes into one small city in the North East.
This well-intended question is a persistent source of anxiety for PhD students (myself included). You can feel subjected to a disproportionate level of career-related questioning. The end of a PhD can feel like an ominous T-junction: do you take the academic route, or the non-academic route? I’ve found this binary approach…
Technology
COVID-19 hit the whole world by surprise. Without prior notice we all had to be locked down at home and expected to try and resume our normal tasks remotely. Working from home using technology is definitely not an easy task when your two kids and husband decide to all use Zoom at the same time and you will be…
On Thursday March 26th people across the UK leaned out their windows for the first time to applaud the NHS.At Ustinov College’s Sheraton Park, our porter Ray, captured the moment and it was posted on Ustinov’s social media, but students at Ustinov’s Brackenbury location took part as well.
Ustinov…
Eighteen months ago, I sat in my very first job interview. The job in question was the one I am grateful to be doing now: student intern in the Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Colleges. In short, I would be spending my working hours connecting with Durham’s Colleges, and the wealth of wonderful people who work within…
I came to Durham University to pursue a PhD
in Quantum Physics and Computing. The purpose of this blog is to show that
Quantum Physics (and computation!!) doesn’t really have to be as hard as what
Scientist are publishing!
Let’s just have a look at a famous
experiment called the Hong–Ou–Mandel optical effect and try…
Cover shot – The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope – with myself barely visible in front. Photo credit: Ugnė Dudzevičiūtė.
As a PhD student in astrophysics, an exciting possibility is being sent to a telescope in some exotic, faraway location for observing – making sure the telescope operates properly and…
During the Spring semester of 2019, I left Durham to participate in a three-month research and training visit to the United States as part of the Overseas Institutional Visit scheme for PhD students funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Workshop in Experimental Economics
My visit began at the
Graduate…
