Building upon TEDxUoN

First, thank you to everyone who took the time to look at some of my other posts whilst reading about the awesome TEDxUoN Breaking Boundaries event last weekend! I'd love to keep up this great run of awesome things to talk about, but with exams and dissertation deadlines looming, I'm anticipating being fairly busy in the next few months! So I thought I'd take this opportunity to do something I had always been meaning to, transfer my posts from my old blog!

I should put up a disclaimer that this was at the start of university, when I was much more focussed on fitness. Since then, a lot of things have gotten in the way, especially as my degree has gotten a lot harder since first year (unsurprisingly). I don't necessarily stick to all of these tips, but that doesn't mean it isn't still good advice. I like to think that my advice will help you to create sustainable healthy habits that will lead to long term health and hopefully a more enriched life experience that doesn't punish the odd slip up or two, rather than a focus on absolute gains. You'll find that kind of information elsewhere.

I'll try and go through and edit them to make me sound a little less naive but I'll inevitably miss something, so be gentle! I hope you enjoy!

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Medical Writing: Do you need a PhD?

When I was looking into becoming a medical writer, I was just at the end of my MSc and trying to decide whether to try and get a job in medical communications or to do a PhD and then move into Med Comms later. The short answer is no you don't necessarily need a PhD to be a medical writer, but some employers think you do and it certainly seems to be the ideal. After looking around on the internet I found a few forum posts asking about the same thing, "should I do a PhD to get into Med Comms?”. Most people said no not necessarily. But as far as I could tell, all of them did have PhD’s and were just telling people well maybe yes and maybe no. Since getting a job as an associate medical writer without a PhD, I've heard a lot more of this conversation occurring within the industry and especially at careers fairs. A lot of people do have PhD’s and quite often post-doctoral experience. But that is normally because they started out in academia and then discovered medical w

#ThanksToVideoGames shows Twitter gaming community has a sincere side

National Video Games Day was Thursday 7th July, 2020. A day where people in the gaming community can reflect on what video games mean to them. For me, video games are a way of staying in touch with friends I no longer live close to and provides an escape from the everyday stresses of the world. It's clear that I'm not the only one, with #ThanksToVideoGames making waves on Twitter, people from all over the world shared their own reasons to be grateful for having video games in their lives. My curiosity got the better of me; I wanted to find out more about why people were grateful for video games and I wanted to show people that (shockingly) gamers can also be very sincere online. I created this visualisation of the most common words that appeared in tweets with #ThanksToVideoGames to show the different themes coming through in discussions on Twitter. Make sure you hit the full screen icon to show the full picture; you c

A Moment of Clarity for Solar Power

There's something about solar energy that I just find fascinating. Maybe it's the because it could be our saviour and the key to practically endless free energy, or it could be that it's the mission to mimic one of life's most complex and fundamental biological processes (photosynthesis). Whatever it is, it's got me hooked! That said, I am no physicist and I do not pretend to be one! What I am, though, is someone who is very interested in watching the technical advances in solar technology and who takes pleasure in telling the story of solar energy. This article sparked from a conversation with one of my housemates about solar energy. We talked about how solar energy could power california 5 times over without using up any additional space and then went onto the possibility of "paint-on solar power" . Then we got to talking about how cool it would be if we could have transparent solar cells, so you could replace your windows with "solar w

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