The Science PhD Survival Pack
Undertaking a science PhD is no easy feat. But help is at hand! Whether you are writing up your dissertation, struggling in the lab, or a new PhD student, we have lots of resources to support you on a whole range of PhD-related topics - everything you need to survive what may be one the toughest (and rewarding) periods in your life!
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Help with all things PhD!
Thanks to some amazing guest authors and a dedicated team at Hello Bio, we have some great resources to help, wherever you are in your PhD journey. New resources are being added all the time and you can see them all here. Take a look below at some of our most popular articles:
For New PhD Students
PhD Success & Productivity
- Taking Positive Steps Towards PhD Success
- The Recipe for Sweet PhD Success: Part 1
- The Recipe for Sweet PhD Success - Part 2
- Maintaining PhD Productivity: Tips for Mindset and Organisation
- The Most Common PhD Problems and How to Get Past Them
- Undertaking a PhD in an International Lab
Mental Health & Wellbeing During your PhD
- Under Pressure: Breaking Free from the Stress of Your PhD
- The Most Common PhD Problems and How to Get Past Them
- My PI & I: What Makes A Good Student-Supervisor Relationship?
- Your mental health and wellbeing
- 10 Tips for Balancing Parenthood on the Path to Your PhD
- Navigating the Mentor-Mentee Relationship
- The Importance of a Good Support System During Your PhD
Useful Skills for your PhD & Beyond...
- The Life Scientists' Guide to Presenting at Conferences
- The Life Scientists’ Guide to Writing Scientific Papers
- 6 Top Science Writing Tips from the Experts
- The Art of Writing Scientific Papers - Resources for Researchers
- The Life Scientist’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Work
- Check out the full series: The Life Scientists' Guides To...
Help From Your Peers
- Interviews with Scientists: advice from researchers
- LabLifeCon: a new annual virtual event to support early career scientists
Writing Up your Dissertation / Thesis
Defending your Dissertation (Viva)
- How to Excel in Your Doctoral Viva (Dissertation Defense)
- Surviving Your PhD Viva / Dissertation Defense
- Unprecedented: The Story of a Lockdown Viva (Dissertation Defense)
After Your Science PhD
- The Life Scientists' Guide to Applying for Postdocs
- Navigating the PhD to Postdoc Transition
- From PhD to Parliament: What I’ve Learned Since Finishing My Science PhD
- To Science, or Not To Science? Alternative Careers For PhDs
- The Life Scientists' Guide to Applying for Jobs In Industry
More General Support for Life Scientists
And if you are looking for more general help writing papers, presenting at conferences, networking or lots more, we have a huge range of articles covering lots of topics - just click below:
Apply for an Early Career Scientist Grant
Every month, we give away a $500 Early Career Scientist Grant (or the equivalent value depending on where you live) to a life scientist. This fund is available to any current life science post-graduate or post-doctoral researcher who has received their highest degree (BSc, MSc or PhD) within the past 10 years. The grant can be used for anything to help you further your scientific career and it's really quick and easy to apply - find out more here.
Our past winners have used the fund to attend conferences, purchase reagents and publish papers. What's more, every Early Career Scientist Grant winner has the opportunity to feature on our blog and social media channels if they want to!
Molarity Calculator
Molarities are easy to get into a muddle with. We’ve all been there. We created our molarity calculator to provide a fast and easy way to calculate the mass, volume, or concentration required for making a solution.
Dilution Calculator
Yep, we do love a calculator! Our dilution calculator is there to help you work out how to dilute stock solutions of known concentrations.
Finding That Perfect Product...
When you get to the stage of planning your experiments, don't forget that we offer a range of agonists, antagonists, inhibitors, activators, antibodies and fluorescent tools that are really low cost (yes - they really are around half the price of other suppliers!) You can use our Quick Multi-Search Tool to search for lots of products in one go, and the range includes:
- Enzyme inhibitors and activators
- Chemogenetic tools
- Ion channel modulators
- GPCR ligands
- Signaling tools
And finally, don't forget to check back in with our blog regularly for more PhD focused content! If there’s something you’d love to contribute to the community, whether that’s an interview or article, drop us a line at hello@hellobio.com
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