{"id":9,"date":"2019-09-24T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ihspgr\/?p=9"},"modified":"2019-09-25T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:33:14","slug":"welcome-to-our-pgr-community-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/2019\/09\/24\/welcome-to-our-pgr-community-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our Postgraduate Blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
In time for the new academic year, we bring to you our new blog! This blog is<\/span>\u00a0envisioned to be<\/span> a resource for us as postgraduate students to share experiences, interact with each other and share knowledge about conferences or events. We want you to actively contribute to this, so please send us ideas, your research interests or <\/span>any other topic that you would like to write about.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Frequently, we will also share advice and tips on the PhD process and how to make the PhD experience more enjoyable. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
If you\u2019re interested in being a part of the blog team, please send an email to Elaine McColl<\/span> (<\/span>elaine.mccoll@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
We hope that this blog will become a valuable resource for our PhD community and a way to connect to each other.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

But first: Who are we?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Eftychia Kotro<\/span><\/strong>nia (e.kotronia2@ncl.ac.uk)<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/span>I\u2019m from Greece, I\u2019m a 2nd year PhD student and rep for 2nd year PhD students of IH&S. For my PhD project, I study the associations of poor oral health with age-related health outcomes<\/span> (e.g.<\/span> disability, inflammation, nutrition) in older people in the UK and USA. I\u2019m part of the Public Health, and Ageing themes. I\u2019m also a dietician and I have a Master\u2019s degree on Epidemiology and Public Health from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. I\u2019m interested in translating research for policy making.\u00a0<\/span>I like yoga and barre, and going on roadtrips!\u00a0<\/span>In the process of improving my twitting skills.\u00a0<\/span>Twitter: @ekotronia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Arlind Reuter<\/span> (a.reuter2@ncl.ac.uk)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
I\u2019m from Berlin, Germany and I\u2019m now coming to the end of my first year of the PhD. Throughout the year, I volunteered to be an IH&S Postgraduate Rep together with Zo\u00eb. Being such an active part of our PhD community brought a lot of great interactions and I feel very lucky to be involved. For my PhD, I am based cross-disciplinary in Open Lab, a Human-Computer-Int<\/span>eraction lab in the school of Computing. I look at digital and community media as a pathway to civic participation in later life, working with communities of older people who create a lot of interesting content. Before that, I did the M.Sc. in Clinical and Health Psychology at Newcastle and an M.Res in Digital Civics.<\/div>\n
Twitter: @arreut<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Nadege Sandrine Uwamohoro<\/span> (N.S.Uwamahoro2@ncl.ac.uk)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
I\u2019m a native Rwandan and a Danish national who grew up in Zambia. I\u2019m a 3<\/span>rd<\/sup><\/span> year PhD student, 3<\/span>rd<\/sup><\/span> year EDI rep, rep for international students and secretary of the Youth Stop AIDS student society which I founded in February 2019. The society won the best new society award at NUSU\u2019s Cerebrating Success Awards under my presidency, which was exciting, especially because the society was only three months old. \u00a0My PhD is focused on exploring barriers and facilitators to health services access by young people living with and at risk of contracting HIV in Malawi\u2019s Thyolo District. I have a master\u2019s degree in Public Health from Aarhus University in Denmark. My main research interest is applied health systems research, particularly in sub-Saharan and related to HIV.\u00a0<\/span>If I am not working on the PhD, you\u2019ll find me at dance lessons or attending\/hosting dinners for my hygge club.<\/span><\/div>\n
Twitter: @nadege_sandrine<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In time for the new academic year, we bring to you our new blog! This blog is\u00a0envisioned to be a resource for us as postgraduate students to share experiences, interact with each other and share knowledge about conferences or events. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/NUPHSIpgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}