Postgraduate research

  • Spotlight on: FOTENIX, James Hibbert. PART 3

    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 –…

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  • MSc course reflections : Employability

    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.

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  • A Typical Week as a PhD Student – Crefeda

    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…

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  • Studying a PhD whilst at CERN, with Joshua Dawes.

    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…

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