PhD in an Hour
Event Information
Description
One PhD student, one fascinating topic, one café, one hour. Enjoy a cup tea while a PhD student shares his/her interesting findings and groundbreaking ideas. With students from a wide range of subjects, there will be something to tempt everyone’s intellectual appetite. Make a PhD a piece of cake.
The aim is to demystify the PhD process and make it accessible to all. Every PhD, no matter how technical or academic it sounds, will be explained so complete beginners to the topic can enjoy learning about groundbreaking research and ideas.
Created in partnership with The Beltane Public Engagement Network - www.beltanenetwork.org
This month PhD student Thomas Suslak will be hosting.
Stretching the Truth: Mechanotransduction in Sensory Nerves
We explore a fundamental process - mechanotransduction, which no-one really understands. But it is crucial for all sorts of senses, like touch, balance and even hearing. Thomas uses a variety of techniques to try to get to the bottom of this mysterious bodily function from computers to fruit flies! What he is discovering now could be vital to disease treatment for such things as hypertension, deafness and PCD, amongst others.
Organiser Just Festival Edinburgh
Organiser of PhD in an Hour
Just Festival events aim to challenge perceptions, celebrate differences and promote respectful dialogue. The conversations, talks, exhibitions and performances which constitute Just’s annual programme are designed to engage with topical local, national and international questions of social justice, equality and identity, including prejudice against race, ethnicity, class and economic status. Just explores these issues by creating safe spaces for dialogue and exchange between affected groups and individuals, invited experts, practitioners, community based organisations, socially conscious performing arts groups and the general public. This multi-dimensional, multi-stakeholder approach encourages creative engagement with important societal questions from a variety of angles and perspectives with the aim of reducing religious, political and social intolerance.
