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In mid April 2019, I was travelling to Iraq as part of a charity organisation made up of doctors, pharmacists and surgeons from around the world. The group included people from Canada, America, Tanzania, Madagascar, Iraq, London and Paris. The aim of this visit was to provide medical aid, as…

Being an Engaged Research is exciting: it is about communicating research with the public in a fun and creative way. This process can improve research by making it more relevant and useful. We, as researchers, have a duty to disseminate the benefits and knowledge from higher education because we are…

It’s ok not to know everything

With the nature of this course, it can feel like you are fighting an uphill battle. The workload is big -  there is no way to sugar coat it -  but do not panic! No one expects you to know everything. It is not…

Flow cytometry is a very powerful quantitative cellular analysis technique for the complex characterization of cells and cell populations on single cell level. Data collected by flow cytometry allows statistical analysis of cellular populations as well as quantitative assessment of various features of acquired objects. Flow cytometry is widely used…

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about my North American adventures in creative science communication, and I’m back this week to tell you all about the second leg of my Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship travels. Since I last wrote, I’ve spent a weekend in Berlin, and…

Earlier this month I was in London where I joined a hall full of other undergraduate…

In a Brave New World, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley imagined eggs and sperm kept in ‘racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes’ and babies grown in rows of flasks, provided with nutrients and hormones. While the birth of Louise Brown, forty years ago last year, must have seemed to some…

I’m writing this blog post in between unpacking and repacking my suitcase; it’s the first time I’ve been back to Aberdeen since the end of December and the fact it’s now February is more than a little disconcerting. Time appears to have advanced at such a pace because I’ve been…

Though it has only been 2 weeks since University has started, my experience has been entirely different to college. There are enormous lecture theatres which house hundreds of students, lectures last an hour and are recorded so you will never miss a thing but despite this lots of information can…

My first couple of days in Aberdeen were spent exploring this beautiful city. I took several hours walking and looking at the buildings though, in my experience, I wouldn’t recommend eating outside as the seagulls will mug you for a couple of carbs. However, my exploration took me to a…