Jorge Chan visits Barts and The London. Jorge is the author of Piled High and Deeper, the comic strip about life as a PhD student.
Beer and curry night, Whitechapel.
Graduate studies events and competitions
The are several events for Graduate students each year.
Every summer the student staff committee holds a barbecue on the lawn at Charterhouse Square and in the New Year we have a beer and curry night in Whitechapel.
Junk the Jargon 2011
Our competition challenges PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to present their research in an interesting and engaging way in just three minutes.
The final of this year’s competition was on Thursday 17th Feb in People’s Palace Lecture Theatre 1. All 12 finalists did a fantastic job of engaging, entertaining and educating the audience – there were creative analogies, humour, a huge variety of props and even the odd explosion!
First and second place were awarded to entrants from the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The winners
1st place: Myrto Chioni (and her two lovely assistants), from Barts Cancer Institute, for her description of “The secret life of Mr FGFR”.
2nd Place: Jamie Upton, from the Blizard Institute of Cell & Molecular Science, for his poem about baldness and his research on hair follicles.
For more information and videos of the presentations visit the Queen Mary Learning Institute web site.