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In a PhD Slump? 5 Tips to Help You Stay Motivated and Get Your Mojo Back
Doing a PhD provides the opportunity to work at the frontiers of scientific innovation by contributing to ground breaking research. As...
Gillian O'Neill
Jul 24, 20185 min read
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Supervising industrial PhD students: On the edge of practice and theory
Nothing is quite so practical as a good theory Kurt Lewin, psychologist and social scientist (1890-1947) Is research really of any...
Kristin B. Munksgaard
Jun 4, 20183 min read
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In the trenches with a PhD
In a nutshell, the life of a PhD researcher involves around: 1) learning your area, 2) learning how to carry out research 3) presenting...
Dominic O'Connor
May 29, 20182 min read
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Steps and tools to reach a well-researched early prototype of a patient-centred mobile health app
At Salumedia I’ve had the opportunity to enter in the world of digital health and, among many things, understand and participate in the...
Francisco Guerra
May 14, 20183 min read
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Literature Reviews: Valuable Tools
The importance of a good literature review Performing a good literature review is not an easy task, but it is a task that most of us,...
Majbritt Rostgaard Evald
May 3, 20183 min read
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Moving from Clinical Work to Academia: a Researcher Physiotherapist’s Experience
I hung up my uniform, put away my stethoscope, and said farewell to the on-call pager – the time had come for me to move from working as...
Louise Brennan
Apr 17, 20184 min read
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Catch up about CATCH
Nyhavn, the most famous canal in Copenhagen (Denmark) Many people in my professional and personal environment ask me with a real...
Mercè Bonjorn Dalmau
Apr 2, 20184 min read
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Do I have time for Innovation?
Time is a key factor in innovation, mainly for two reasons concerning success in commercialization: To be the first one into market gives...
Juan Miguel Muñoz Peñas
Mar 20, 20183 min read
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The Mobile Researcher - From merging disciplines to crossing professional sectors and geographical
It has now been a year since I packed up my car and moved to Dublin to start a PhD with CATCH. However this was only the start of the...
Gillian O'Neill
Mar 6, 20183 min read
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Health & Medical Scientific Ethics
Prior to any research with humans and especially with patients, research methods should be taken to a committee that will judge whether...
Gabriel Signorelli
Feb 28, 20183 min read
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"What's the craic?" - Moving to Dublin
On my previous blog post I wrote about the start of my secondment at Oncoavanze – the oncologic clinic in Seville. I was there for 2...
Francisco Guerra
Jan 29, 20183 min read
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Chapter 2 - My PhD secondment in Ireland: the start of another adventure
I have relocated a lot, but none of my previous relocation has been as challenging as my relocation here in Dublin. I’ll come there in a...
Ornela Bardhi
Jan 25, 20183 min read
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Why should researchers use Social Media?
When one does an academic, scientific or research work, what they are primarily seeking is to learn, deepen and focus on a specific...
Mercè Bonjorn Dalmau
Dec 13, 20173 min read
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Public Dissemination of Science - why is it so important?
As researchers, we are judged on our ability to publish high quality research in peer reviewed academic journals. For the researcher,...
Dominic O'Connor
Nov 28, 20173 min read
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Working FOR & WITH patients: thoughts about the upcoming secondment @Oncoavanze
A year has flown by since the beginning of my industrial doctorate in the European project CATCH. A time spent at Salumedia, a digital...
Francisco Guerra
Nov 15, 20173 min read
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If you are thinking of selling, value is the key!
One of the central ideas in the previous blog post of mine was how important it is to think about commercialization at early stages of...
Juan Miguel Muñoz Peñas
Sep 28, 20173 min read
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Attending Conferences: The Joy of Combining Work and Travel!
I sometimes feel the need to be careful when speaking about travelling internationally for work. I get asked ‘how was your holiday’ and...
Louise Brennan
Jul 3, 20173 min read
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“I’ll tell me Ma when I go home” – sharing insights from the CATCH Orientation Conference 2017
CATCH’s first conference was held in Ireland last week at University College Dublin, and while the weather may not have always been on...
Gillian O'Neill
Jun 15, 20173 min read
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Let's catch up!
“Let’s catch up” was the first expression my friend Antonio told me before I started to tell him the news. “Hey, that's exactly what I...
Juan Miguel Muñoz Peñas
Jun 8, 20174 min read
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eHealth research on cancer brings together academics and health professionals in Dublin
The University College Dublin will host the CATCH Orientation Conference from 6th to 9th June 2017, presenting their research on...
Päivi Salminen
May 31, 20173 min read
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