The Surrey Postgrad Podcast: Recent Episodes
Surrey Postgrads
Each episode we interview a current Surrey postgrad about their life, work and postgrad experience. We also have other guests from across the university talking about what resources are available to postgrads during their time here.
In today's episode Lester chats to PGR Sue Terry and chair of the Rainbow Network Dr David Griffiths.
Sue is helping organise the Magickal Women's Conference, you can find the details on their website and Facebook below or get in touch with Sue by email s.d.terry@surrey.ac.uk.
Website: https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magickalwomen
David is the Chair of the LGBTQI Equality Group, now the Rainbow Network. Email the Network LGBT-NETWORK@LIST.SURREY.AC.UK to get involved.
In episode 12, Edeline chats to Sociology PGR, Thiago Bogossian Porto, about his PhD experience, and IP Commercialisation Officer, Ambi Batra, about the path she took to technology transfer and dealing with patenting research outputs.
Find out more about Thiago
on Twitter: @ThiagoBP0
via Email: t.bogossianporto@surrey.ac.uk
Or Visit thiagobogossian.wordpress.com to keep up to date with what Thiago is doing.
You can also find out more about the Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal on Twitter (@ERSjournal) and Instagram (@ERS.journal)
Find out more about what Ambi and the Tech Transfer Office at Uni of Surrey do:
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/business/enterprise-services/ip-and-licensing
Email them at: TechTransfer@surrey.ac.uk
Or you can find them on Twitter (@SurreyInnovate) and LinkedIn (University of Surrey Research and Innovation)
In episode 11, Edeline chats to Chronobiology PGR, Isaiah Ting, about his PhD experience, and Surrey Public Engagement Manager, Ross Kelway, about the importance of public engagement amongst other things.
Find out more about Ting on his Surrey researcher's profile: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/isaiah-joseph-ting
Instagram: @ijc_ting
Email: i.ting@surrey.ac.uk
Articles Ting has published in The Stag:
https://www.thestagsurrey.co.uk/everyday-racism/
https://www.thestagsurrey.co.uk/filipino/
Find out more about what Ross and the public engagement team at Uni of Surrey do:
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/community
Email them at: publicengagement@surrey.ac.uk
Or you can find them on Twitter and instagram: @uniofsurreycpe
In episode 8, Lester chats to Human Rights PGR Olga Frańczak and Surrey alumni and visiting lecturer Dr Moses Langat, who now spends his time between Surrey and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
Find out more about Olga on her Surrey researchers profile: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/olga-franczak
Find out more about Moses on his Kew profile: https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/people/moses-k-langat
In Episode 9 Mason interviews Malin Schulz, a final year PGR from the Soft Matter Physics group; and Dr Catia Costa, an Early Career Researcher and Surrey graduate working at the Surrey Ion Beam Centre.
Share your stories by emailing ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk or finding us on Instagram or Twitter @SurreyPostgrads.
In episode 8, Lester chats to former Surrey masters student and newly inducted PhD student Rosie Brett and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) Prof. David Sampson.
If you want to read more of David's blogs they can be found here: https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/vice-provost/
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In Episode 7, Edeline D'Souza interviews Matt Brunet, a final year PGR from the Nuclear Physics group, about his role as PGR representative and Co-Chair of the FEPS PGR Student Engagement Forum, and what it's like to travel for research; as well as Jade Asbury and Ayan Ahmed of the Surrey Peer Support Service.
To get in touch with Matt, you can email him at m.h.brunet@surrey.ac.uk
The Surrey Peer Support Service can be reached at SurreyPeerSupportService@surrey.ac.uk .
You can also contact them via social media.
Twitter: @UoSPeerSupport
Instagram: surreypeersupport
Facebook: Surrey Peer Support
The booking form can be found at https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/SurreyPeerSupportService@surrey.ac.uk/bookings/ and they are available 7 days a week from 7 - 9 pm.
Membership to the Postgrad society can be "bought" for FREE here https://ussu.co.uk/getinvolved/clubs/join , and you can contact us to share your stories by emailing ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk
In today's episode Lester chats to PhD Student Katie O'Brien and the Doctoral College's careers consultant Emma Francis.
Katie talks about her work as an immunology and chronobiology PhD student as well as her new role as the LGBT+ Society's postgrad rep. You can find Katie on Twitter @KatieOBrizzle.
Emma can be reached by emailing e.francis@surrey.ac.uk or rdp@surrey.ac.uk. you can also book appointments to discuss your career at https://pathfinder.surrey.ac.uk/student/login.html.
Membership to the Postgrad society can be "bought" for FREE here https://ussu.co.uk/getinvolved/clubs/join.
In Episode 5 Mason interviews Sapphire Lally, a 2nd year PGR from the Quantum Biology department who has recently set up the University of Surrey Researchers Anti-Racism Reading Group; and Dr Alex Harden, a Surrey Music PhD alumni who has previously been VP Voice (2017/18) and President (2018/19) at the USSU.
To get involved in, or to find out more about Sapphire's project, feel free to email her at m.lally@surrey.ac.uk.
Share your stories by emailing ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk or finding us on Instagram or Twitter @SurreyPostgrads.
In Episode 4 Lester interviews Gemma Connell, a PGR from the Guildford School of Acting, and Allan Kilner-Johnson, the Associate Dean (Doctoral College) for FASS.
To find out more about Gemma's project you can check out https://www.findmyfootsteps.com/.
Share your stories by emailing ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk or finding us on Instagram and Twitter @SurreyPostgrads.
In Episode 3 Mason Malloy interviews 2nd year PGR Diana Dakik, a Veterinary Medicine PhD student, and Lizzie Rodulson, the USSU President 2020/21. Following Lizzie Rodulson's interview, if you would like to get in contact with the Student's Union, please contact them at ussu.information@surrey.ac.uk.
Share your stories by emailing ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk or finding us on Instagram and Twitter @SurreyPostgrads.
In Episode 2 Lester interviews 2nd year PGR Edeline D'Souza who works in the quantum biology department and Alex Pavey who works in the RDP team at the Doctoral College.
Share your stories by emailing ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk or finding us on Instagram and Twitter @SurreyPostgrads.
Welcome to the first episode of the Surrey Postgrad Podcast. In our first episode we interview postgraduate researcher Solomon Melides and Head of the Doctoral College Dr Kate Gleeson. Get in touch with us at ussu.pgs@surrey.ac.uk or search for Surrey Postgrads on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.