Working on a PhD is a strange thing. You get paid to do research, work independently and with others as a team, have a supervisor and management structure, undertake professional development, but are still a ‘student’. I often came across this grey area when travelling during my PhD. Covered by staff insurance but not able …
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I feel like there are two pathways to getting that first post-doc after finishing your PhD. The first is to know the right people and be lucky, and the second is to have the right skills and be lucky. Note that there’s a substantial amount of luck involve in both these pathways – lucky that …
Perhaps this is naïve of me, but I always thought mound springs were small. Thinking of things like sand, gravel, and other rocks, my personal experience of things called ‘mound’ were that they generally stood less than 2 m tall. Therefore, in my mind, a mound spring would also stand 1-2 m tall. I discovered …
I’m a creature of knee high shrubbery. Grasslands, deserts, swamps, dunes. I’m not sure what it is about such landscapes, but I thoroughly enjoy them. (However, I have recently learnt while camping on the plains that the occasional 1-3m tall shrub is very useful for privately toileting.) An interesting feature of central Australia are gibber …
Anyone who has lived at the edge of one of Australia’s expanding cities knows that it isn’t the edge for long. According to one of my neighbours, the suburban block I live on was once (in the 50s) part of the southern suburban boundary with naught but agricultural land beyond. The inner suburban boundary is …
I can still count the number of reviews I’ve received at this point in my short career – although I admit I had to look up the specific numbers. Reviews associated with manuscripts that were rejected (five manuscripts; ten reviews) and reviews associated with manuscripts that were accepted (three manuscripts; nine reviews). I generally agree …
There are two types of work that you do during PhD: the type that pays the rent, and the type that gets you relevant experience which also the rent. While I appreciate that the first type is extremely important to some people, I was in the happy position of holding a scholarship for most of …
Erinne Stirling 