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So I have been asked to do a bit of a take over on the School Blog to document my upcoming travels to Australia.

For those that don't know me I'm Katie Wilde and I'm the Digital Research Services Manager who heads up the Digital Research part of Digital and…

When you go food shopping, do you have a list of items you need, or do you get attracted to the offers or reductions in-store? Or are you like me, doing your weekly shop online and usually stick to your favourite items. Although it is convenient to get my groceries…

Microscopy plays an important part in everyday research. The University’s Microscopy and Histology Facility provides researchers on both campuses with access to advanced technologies.

Originally established in 2004 as two separate facilities (Histology & Electron Microscopy and Imaging), the two were merged in 2010 to form the service that exists…

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…