Podcast on the Graduate School VLE

Michael Flavin and I do our first Graduate School pod-cast.  On my first attempt I spoke for some 4 hours on many fascinating aspects of my life and times. Michael suggested a briefer treatement might be appreciated more by the students. He is so weird! Consequently the first broadcast will come in at about 6 minutes – a mere scratching of the surface, a smear of anchovy paste on a Tuc cracker instead of the banquet I had envisaged. I confidently predict an overwhelming demand for the original 4 hour address, bootleg tapes, the involvement of shady characters, illegal downloads. Oh yes.

Wolfson Centre for Age-related Disease

Was asked by a student  – Christoforos – to do a talk about careers at their regular Friday afternoon meeting.  C said to bring a few figure on what happens to King’s Biomedical and Health Sciences PhD’s which I did. I also put a quote or two from the new concordat about career support for researchers in Universities.

30 miinutes of talk then they brought in boxes of hot pizza and a crate of cold beer. Now THATS what I call Graduate Skills Development.

Quite pleased today as I got my first confirmation of a speaker at my Autumn employer presentation programme. Sally Leevers who manages the post-docs at Cancer Research UK’s labs. She has agree to come and talk on December the 9th.