It's not a secret that I like listening to music while writing. I have a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, that I swear by. nothing distracts me as much as people who are talking around me, so often, my headphones are…
I recently came across the results of a survey by Pearson on the use of social media by faculty members, for teaching and learning. You can find the full report here. Since the report is heavy on graphs and data…
Today I have the pleasure of inviting Nivedita to discuss her daily schedule with us. Nivedita is a PhD student at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Her research is on automated forensic analysis of handwriting. She received a bachelor…
Today, I am inviting Laura Shum (@lauracshum) to write about her academic schedule. Laura is a graduate student in the Translational Biomedical Sciences PhD program at the University of Rochester. She works on translating bench science to clinicians, the value…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Some weeks ago, I laid my hands on my copy of "53 interesting ways to communicate your research". This book is a collection of essays on communicating your research, covering a wide range of strategies for science communication."53 interesting ways…
Today in our series of academic schedules, I'm inviting Jennifer Upchurch. Jennifer is an Australian Sociology PhD Candidate. Her PhD research is on young people and their experiences of civic participation in groups. She tweets at @jamandcrumpets. I started my…
It's time for a (long overdue) Q&A again! Some time ago (I'm sorry it took so long for me to write this post!), I received the following email (I left out some details that could point to the identity of…
It's with pleasure and pride that I announce today that we have published a paper in the Magazine of Concrete Research. It's already available ahead of print on the MoCR website.This paper is based on a part of the second…
For IABSE 2014, I published the first paper about the theoretical work about the Modified Bond Model from my dissertation. The abstract of the paper is: The shear problem is typically studied by testing small, heavily reinforced, slender beams subjected…
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