Sitting is the new smoking: a researcher’s guide to a less sedentary lifestyle

Nikki Bonett, a researcher in BioSciences asks “how much of your day do you spend sitting down?” As a researcher, much of your time—whether spent reading journal articles, writing papers, or analysing data—is likely done sitting. Is it really a problem? Why does time spent sitting matter? Since the since the advent of the computer, …

Black PhD Collective: the first nationwide network for Black PhD students of any discipline

Meléa Sinclair is a BBSRC-funded PhD researcher in the School of Life Sciences. She shares her experiences of stepping into the unknown. If you had told me at 20 that I’d be doing a PhD, I wouldn’t have believed you, mostly because I didn’t actually know what a PhD was. That is the reality for …