PhD

Plus Award, addressing each point of the Researcher Excellence Framework, giving evidence how the past two and a half years have contributed to my personal and my career development. 1. Knowledge and Intellectual abilities a. Knowledge base Throughout my PhD I have been able to attend a number of courses organised by the QUB postgraduate centre, which allowed me to further my knowledge and gain valuable skills within my PhD and beyond it, thus increasing my employability. These include for example ‘Leading your PhD’, ‘Better power point presentations’, ‘Applying your research into policy’, ‘Introduction to project management’, ‘Introduction to thematic analysis’ and…

The University of Chicago's Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Ph.D. Program is an exceptional and prestigious program that will provide me the opportunity to broaden my skills and intellect within biochemical research fields. This top-ranked program is an ideal fit for me as it contains the biological chemistry and biophysical that I aspire to focus on during my graduate studies. I am greatly interested in biochemical pathway elucidation and structure-based drug design by understanding the…

Dr. Allen, I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! I know one of the topics we will discuss tomorrow is my research topic and datasets. To make sure all the important points are covered during our meeting I wrote them down for you. I would like to talk with you about the current state of my research. I hope that I can have your support to move forward and deepen the current study. Here are some of my reasons: 1. The reason that I pursuing my Ph.D study is that I am…

You ready for the show and tell?, “ he exclaimed. “Nope, but hopefully things will run smoothly. What did you bring?.” “Aye, I brought my dad’s PHD degree,” “PHD?” Was it an acronym for “Pretentious Humiliating Dick”? “A PHD is a doctored degree only awarded to the brightest of people” “Ah, so your dad works at a hospital,” I naively assumed. “No, he’s a professor at the University of Georgia. He teaches and researches cool things for a living,” “So, kinda like Miss Thompson,” “Not…

Of course, I’ll try to keep it brief though I could likely speak at length about why I want to get a PHD in geography. It’s certainly not a decision I take lightly considering the amount of resources that go into preparing applications and the sacrifices that PHD students make in terms of time and finance. I think the most important reason I am planning to pursue my doctoral degree may be my passion for geography and learning in general. I feel that learning is central to my identity and I am…

active member in attending conferences and lectures. It is also at this time I worked in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit for eighteen months dealing with patients, who were mainly adults with various cardiothoracic ailments. The two years I spent working at the Tripoli Medical Center proved to be the core for my yearning to partake in clinical research in cardiothoracic surgery. However, as much as I learned how to administer medication to handle various cardiac and thoracic…

Introduction Over the past several weeks, I had the opportunity to experience the first step towards my PhD. During this time I was introduce to the “Culture of inquiry”. This concept went far beyond simply being handed the tools to research different business topics of my interest. Rather, this idea gave me the tools I needed to go deep within myself to discover things about me that I may not have otherwise known. As a result, this essay will cover my strengths and the areas that I want…

Personal Statement I am applying for the Ph.D. program in Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing and I will state the skills that I have and will make me a valuable candidate. Also, I will state how this program will help me to achieve my goals. After finishing my high school, I been admitted to one of the leading universities in the area, King Faisal University. I enrolled in the Diploma program and specialized in Marketing, and after graduating with high GPA; I received a…

the field of software engineering. Finally, I took my final project course in the subject of encryption algorithms in network security assessment and wrote a C# program for Rijndael Managed Encryption under the supervision of Mr. Arshin Rezazadeh and got A+ mark in this course, and completed my final university semester with a GPA of 16.79 out of 20. After graduation in 2015, I preferred to stop my education for 1 year and make a big decision for the rest of my professional life accordingly, I…

However, a move towards ensuring that health care and social care are on a horizontal continuum, is providing a greater opportunity for PHDs to be involved in contributing to improved health outcomes (Maeseneer et al., 2008). PHDs role in promoting the overall wellbeing of people through providing knowledge and information about diet, nutrition and lifestyle is an important element in health outcomes, particularly given the finding that most people with a long-term condition will suffer from…