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Meet the PhDs

Meet the PhDs

By: Vicky Loras
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Welcome to Meet the PhDs! This is a podcast where I talk with amazing scholars who are doing a PhD, have finished their PhD, or are thinking of doing one. We share our backgrounds, working and studying, what a PhD is like in each country, and so much more!Vicky Loras
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  • Meet the PhDs Episode 15 - Erin McGrattan
    Mar 13 2025

    For Episode 15, my guest is Erin McGrattan, from County Down in Northern Ireland. She did her undergraduate degree in Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in Food Quality, Safety and Nutrition and completed a Master’s degree in Ulster University in Human Nutrition, which qualifies her as a nutritionist by the Association for Nutrition.

    She completed a summer studentship at QUB in the Centre for Public Health, and following continuing working there part-time, she was offered to do a PhD. Her title is Identifying characteristics of asymptomatic oesophageal cancer and Barrett’s oesophagus patients to inform novel prevention and early detection opportunities.

    Erin and I discuss PhDing, mental health and so much more!

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    34 mins
  • Meet The PhDs Episode 14 - Dr Allen Roda and Dr Lauren Saunders
    Mar 13 2025

    May I introduce you to two AMAZING academics in Episode 14!

    Dr Lauren Saunders and Dr Allen Roda, Vice President of Editing and Research, and CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Dissertation Editor respectively; and authors of the fantastic book PhDone, which I was given an ARC for and throughly enjoyed and found useful. It is a #2 Wall Street Journal best-seller!

    Enjoy this episode!

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    44 mins
  • Meet the PhDs Episode 13 - Dr Yuliya Samofalova
    Mar 13 2025

    In Episode 13 of Meet the PhDs my guest has a very interesting and multicultural background. Yuliya Samofalova is a third-year PhD candidate in Information and Communication at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Her thesis is focused on analyzing climate change communication on social media in order to understand obstacles and barriers to pro-environmental behavior. Yuliya has a multicultural and interdisciplinary background. She got her Bachelor of Education Sciences in Kazakhstan, her first Masters degree in Linguistics in Russia, second Masters degree in Arts, Humanities, Civilizations in France. Besides her research work, she's passionate about teaching languages and digital communication, and learning more about art and how to do it. I met Yuliya on Instagram, and I started by asking her about her wonderful multicultural background.

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    29 mins

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