Tag: academia

• The People Factor: Embracing different work personalities in the lab

  

  I find that the most challenging aspect of being a PhD research candidate is not just the research work itself, but also the people who you work with.

  Pei Qin Sabrina Ng

  November 26, 2020

  workplace

  academia, blog, colleagues, dealing with stress, human resources, inspiration, management, mental health, open communication, personalities, phD, phdlife, research, self-awareness, sharing experience, stressful workplace, team, teamwork, thoughts, workplace

• Being interdisciplinary: good or bad? Exploring my research identity in my PhD

  

  The longer I am in the PhD programme, the more I am exploring research identity. So, who am I?

  Pei Qin Sabrina Ng

  February 8, 2020

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  academia, bioinformatics, gradschool, identity, phD, postgrad, research, scicomm, thoughts, university

• A memoir on publishing my first paper

  

  I was told there is a similar group working on the same project as us while I was still analysing the data, and the group was close to publishing their work.

  Pei Qin Sabrina Ng

  January 2, 2020

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  academia, bioinformatics, gradschool, open science, peer review, phD, publication, research

• 5 lessons I have learnt about academia: a postgraduate student’s perspective (so far)

  

  I think that feeling of being thrown into the deep end and doing something you never thought you would accomplish is really powerful. Reshma Saujani

  Pei Qin Sabrina Ng

  March 16, 2019

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  academia, challenges, endurance, growth, mentalhealth, optimism, research, scicomm, science