[By: Joanna Rutkowska]
As the MOTION ESRs, we are receiving the best training our PIs can provide for us. With the pandemic still going on, we have to resort to having our training schools online. Last months’ training school was organised by the University of London Birkbeck and took place mostly on Zoom.
[By: Joanna Rutkowska]
On the first day of February, I have gotten on my flight, happy to be going to Milan for a three-month long secondment. Little did I know that I would be back in the Netherlands long before the three-month period is over.
[By: Joanna Rutkowska]
As ESRs in MOTION, funded by the European Union, we have a duty to disseminate our research findings as much as possible. There are several ways of doing so, and different audiences that we can present to. Firstly, one can present the research to the lawmakers and politicians in hopes of influencing future policies and governmental plans. Unfortunately, only few of the scientists are ever invited to do so, and they are definitely not PhD candidates, but rather respectable professors! Secondly, one can present their research to the (wider) public – everyone from parents to children themselves. I believe this is the best way to get everyone interested in research and try to make a change on a societal level bottom-up.
[By: Joanna Rutkowska]
This month TMSi kindly ho sted our project check meeting and the third training school in Oldenzaal, the Netherlands.