Blog
The Babraham Institute works to deliver impact by translating our science and understanding of fundamental biology to promote lifelong health and wellbeing. Our blogs offer scientists, staff and guests the chance to share their individual views and experiences on the Institute's efforts to deliver research impacts and to build a welcoming and diverse community.
13/03/2024
Into industry and back again, how I navigated the next steps after my PhD
Adam Bendall, postdoctoral researcher, reflects on his career so far.
10/01/2024
Listening and learning – a scientist’s experience of participating in a public dialogue
Amy Wilkinson writes about her experience participating in a public dialogue focussed on embryo research
07/06/2023
EnterpriseTECH – learning from expert entrepreneurs and mentoring the next generation
An all round insight into the Cambridge Judge Business School EnterpriseTECH programme.
31/05/2023
Supporting Muslim scientists today
Following on from our blog celebrating the rich history of Islamic science Arqum writes about the experience of Muslim scientists in the UK today.
10/05/2023
Public Engagement: A PIPS perspective
Miriam describes her placement in the Public Engagement team.
05/04/2023
My scientific conference experience
Danny Collins describes his experience presenting at the Dynamic Phospholipids in Health and Disease Conference in Florida.
05/10/2022
Top tips for new PhD students
As our new PhD students arrive at the Institute, Laura reflects on her experience so far
24/08/2022
Mentorship – working across the Babraham Research Campus to nurture scientific careers
How the Babraham Research Campus Mentorship Scheme is sharing perspectives between academic and commercial researchers to support career explorations, knowledge exchange and network building.
14/07/2022
Having a PIPS at something new: From the lab to Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation
Jaspreet Bansal, a PhD student from Aston University undertook a Professional Internship for PhD students (PIPS) project with the Institute's Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation team and describes her experiences of being part of the Institute professionally and personally.
18/05/2022
From Zimbabwe to Cambridge: my global scientific journey
One of our PhD students Tombi shares how her passion for science and helping others has taken her around the world and offered a range of exciting opportunities.
20/04/2022
Learning to grow human skin in a petri dish
PhD student Tiffany recently spent six weeks on placement at the University of Edinburgh to learn a new technique and bring that expertise back to the Institute. In this blog, she shares more about how that opportunity came about and how this will support her research.
26/01/2022
Building entrepreneurial skills during your PhD
Neesha, a PhD student in the Houseley lab, shares her experience of winning the prestigious Biotech YES competition and why she would recommend others explore gaining entrepreneurship knowledge and skills during their PhDs in the future.
13/10/2021
Seven pieces of advice for new PhD students
We asked our current PhD students to share some advice and tips on what they wish they had known at the beginning of their PhDs to share with new first year students.
15/07/2019
Escape Room: A researcher's view of Public Engagement
Richard, a PhD student in the Cook lab, summarises why he feels we need to pause and re-think public engagement, elevating it from a nice side hobby to the critical essence of why we do research.
12/07/2019
Escape Room: The science behind the scenes
Piot Jung, a PhD Student in the Stephens/Hawkins group and Chiara Pantarelli, a PhD student in the Welch group, explained how their PhD projects helped them to develop their award-winning public engagement activity
09/07/2019
Escape Room: Project development
Elizabeth Hampson explains her part in the development of the Institute’s pop-up escape room and how her PhD research in the Welch group was a key to its success.
29/01/2019
My time as a Public Engagement intern at Babraham: Recommendations to prospective students
Samir Morsli describe his experiences at the Babraham Institute during his ‘Professional Internship for PhD Students’ (PIPS) internship
31/01/2018
The excitement of science communication
In November, as part of 360 Science, we invited science author and broadcaster Kat Arney to visit the Institute to talk about her career and offer tips on getting started in communications. Here PhD student Christina Courreges reflects on Kat’s presentation and what she took away from it.
03/01/2018
Learning to talk about my research
Chiara Pantarelli, a 3rd year PhD student in Heidi Welch's group at the Babraham Institute took part in a recent Media Training day to help her to build her skills in talking to a wide audience about her research.
09/11/2017
From Barcelona to Babraham
In our third and final Innovative Training Network (ITN) KEC Blog series, we hear from visiting PhD student Piotr Kobiałka on his recent knowledge exchange visit to the Babraham Institute. Piotr is a PhD student in Dr Mariona Graupera’s lab in IDIBELL (Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge) in Barcelona. He tells us why this visit helped his research and why researcher mobility is so important to advance scientific programmes:
24/05/2017
Treading the Path to Independent Research
Laura Woods, a final year PhD student in the Hemberger group, is considering the next steps in her career.