James Hibbert is a University of Manchester alumni and a current FOTENIX team member. He is currently an Electronics Engineer and for the third part of this spotlight series, he’s taken the time to tell us more about his academic and professional journey. Electronics Engineer James Hibbert BEng (Hons) PhD Electronics Engineer FOTENIX (2020 –…
In this four-part blog series, we are shining the spotlight on the start-up FOTENIX, a company founded by Charles Veys, a University of Manchester alumni. We will profile Charles, as well as three of his team members Melisande, James, and Joshua – who themselves are UoM alumni, in the following three blogs. Founder Charles Veys…
We catch up with Chenjie Yu, an exceptional PhD student who has been recognised for his eye-catching and impactful research output – including work on cloud behaviour.
This is the second video in a short series of reflections from our international students at their graduation ceremony in December. This video focuses on employability and they ways in which they feel their degree from Manchester has bolstered their job prospects.
This article was originally written in 2017. Crefeda has now graduated from the PhD; you can find out more in this post. I have devoted a few blogs to my first experiences as a PhD student attending summer schools and conferences, which is interesting by itself of course. I thought, as these sorts of things…
The year 2020 is here where we find ourselves with a reinvigorated sense of hope and expectations for the year ahead of us. I have a similar feeling as well not only because it is a new year but also because I successfully completed the last step of my PhD journey last month, that is,…
Joshua Dawes is 25 years old, from the UK and a final-year PhD student in Computer Science. Although Joshua is studying his PhD with The University of Manchester, for the entire period of the programme he’s actually based at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland on CERN’s Doctoral Student programme. Here we find out more about Joshua’s…
Aerospace Engineering graduate Tom gives us an insight into the challenges, benefits and rewards of pursing a PhD in the Department of MACE.
Meet Roy Conway, a 72-year-old PhD student in the School of Materials and advocate for studying in later life. As he tells The Hub, he’s not ready for his pipe and slippers just yet…
