Manchester GRADschool: that’s really on my mind! I’m off to Manchester tomorrow, and you can follow news and updates on it by following the hashtag #MancGrads12. I’m leading on two of the sessions in the first two days, and I’ll get some pictures to show how things go with them.

Viva Survivors Podcast: I recorded my second interview for this project on Friday! Very exciting, and I’ll be recording number three today. After this week I’ll start to edit the interviews, and towards the end of the month I will be launching a separate website to host them. If anyone wants to contribute their viva and PhD story to the podcast please get in touch! And if you’re a PGR and have any questions that you want me to ask people or cover in the series, drop me a line.