We are delighted to announce that we have a new-look website for our White Rose DTP in Mechanistic Biology. Please can our students take the time to review their project pages and send updated bios/project info to Clare Green at c.j.green@leeds.ac.uk. We would welcome feedback and your suggestions, please send this to Clare Green.
Advice on how to transition from PhD to Senior Lecturer
See the following link for advice from Helen Coleman, who is a senior lecturer in cancer epidemiology at the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast.
Career advice for students considering a career in academia
While you are on the Times Higher Education website, it is worth browsing as you will find plenty of advice, blogs etc of relevance. You will need to register before you can read any articles.
Issue 2 of our student-run DTP Newsletter
Our DTP students have produced the second issue of the DTP newsletter. Many thanks to the editorial board and all our student contributors for all their hard work. Please take the time to read this, on the last page there is info about how to get involved and submit your own contributions for future issues.
Read it here:
Dragon’s Den Winning Teams
Our second year students worked together in cross-institutional teams to develop business ideas, which they presented to a panel of expert innovation and industry ‘Dragons’ at the Fera Training Day. There were moments of sheer brilliance, fun and a little bit of terror when faced with the Dragon’s questions. The Dragons were impressed with the students’ research into the commercial aspects of their business idea and it was difficult to choose a winner but after much discussion the Dragons were able to select the winning and runner-up teams.
Here are the teams receiving their prize from our External Advisory Board member Rose Maciewicz, VP Strategy Respiratory and Inflammation iMed at AstraZeneca:
Philip Kirk, Leeds
Sarah Flannery, Sheffield
Paul Bond, York
Oliver Prosser, Leeds
Matt Chadwick, Leeds
Marcus Holt, Leeds
Jenny Hayes, York
Tom Burns, Sheffield
Oliver Herd, York
Sarah Good, Leeds
Prizes galore at our DTP Research Symposium in York
The White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of York on 15th Dec 2017 and showcased the work of our third year and final year students. This was organised by a committee of our DTP students, led by York student Lewis White, and was a great success.
We would like to congratulate all the students for their high quality presentations and posters, which were very well received by the symposium delegates. The winners of the presentation and poster competitions were very well deserved and had to fight off stiff competition from their fellow students.
Here are all the winners receiving their prize from our External Advisory Board member Rose Maciewicz, VP Strategy Respiratory and Inflammation iMed at AstraZeneca:
Giovanna Pesante, York
Jordan Talbot, Sheffield
Joseph Ward, Leeds
Caitlin McQueen, York
Emma Stewart, York
Job advice from Sarah Blackford
See Sarah’s post on the importance of your personal network when looking for a job:
She regularly adds new posts here:
All our third year DTP students have the opportunity to attend a career planning session with Sarah Blackford at the Fera Training Day on 20th Nov 2017. Sarah is an academic career consultant with a background in bioscience research and scientific publishing. Qualified with a master’s degree in career education and guidance, Sarah has over 15 years’ experience of delivering specialised career support to PhD students and early career researchers in the form of career development workshops and one-to-one coaching. Her workshops, which are based on her book, “Career planning for research bioscientists”, include career issues such as self-awareness, how to make informed career choices, the job market and finding opportunities outside of academia, networking and communication, CV writing and successful interview technique. Sarah believes that effective personal career development lies at the heart of a successful and fulfilling career.
DTP Newsletter – run by students for our students
Our DTP students have formed an editorial team to produce a DTP Newsletter as a way of improving the communication and networking between our three universities. The Editor in Chief Caitlin McQueen says:
‘We hope that this newsletter will help build friendships throughout the three universities to achieve a real sense of support and involvement outside of the arranged sessions we attend during the year.
The really exciting part about this newsletter is that it is completely student run- this means that if you have something that you want to talk about, or a suggestion for a future section/recurring article, you have the ability to do so! I really think this newsletter has the potential to get us all helping each other in labs, sharing techniques and woes, but also to get everyone involved in our “other lives” not quite so freely shared with each other- so if you’re fundraising for charity, wanting some support for your band, or your sports team, please use this opportunity to get us all supporting you!
In our first issue we will be talking to some PIPs survivors to get some advice and inspiration for potential placements, we will have some scientific features articles from the cohort and a feature on the recent second year visit to the Research Complex at Harwell in Oxford. We will also be saying goodbye to our first round of PhD students and will be catching up with a few to see what they have lined up post thesis submission’
You can read the first issue of the Newsletter here:
The second issue of the Newsletter is currently in production. Please look out for requests from the Editorial Team – all help gratefully received!
Research Symposium 2016
The second White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of Leeds on 16th Dec 2016. This research-focused event gave our final year students the opportunity to present their findings to over 160 DTP students and supervisors. There was a great variety of research on display, with excellent talks and posters from students from Leeds, Sheffield and York.
There was a prize for best oral presentation and best poster, many congratulations to our prize-winning students:
Best presentation: Alex Evans, Leeds (supervised by Graham Askew and Ning Qin)
Best poster: Bryony Cotterell, Sheffield (supervised by Simon Foster and Simon Foster)
Here are the winners receiving their prizes from the DTP Academic Lead, Prof Alan Berry:
New DTP Newsletter – Run by students for students
A new student-led DTP Newsletter will be launched shortly. Please look out for invitations from the editorial team to submit your own news items. The Newsletter will contain useful information directly relevant to yourselves including scientific features, interviews, information about PIPS and future careers as well as news items from your fellow DTP students.
Prize winning DTP Students
The White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of Leeds on 15th Dec 2015 and showcased the work of our final year students.
We would like to congratulate all the students for their high quality 3 min thesis presentations and posters. The winners of the 3MT and poster competitions were very well deserved and had to fight off stiff competition from their fellow students. Here are all the winners receiving their prize from Robert Hardwick, BBSRC:
