It’s been at least 18 months since I last blogged about starting a new contracting role at a young startup medical device company – a long time for me considering that I prefer to blog on a more frequent basis. However, the events that transpired since then have taken my full attention, and left me…
“Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired” – Lee Childs So it’s been quite a while since my last post on Transitioning out from a PhD to Industry (18 months ago); a post written at a point in time where I was beginning to write up my thesis (February 2014).…
Very recently, Dr Jonathan Rosen from Boston University was invited to Melbourne for the third time by the Bionics Institute, and gave a public lecture on “The Role of Societal Engineers in the Innovation Economy”. The event was well attended by many movers and shakers within the Melbourne scientific/biotechnology/medtech sector. Rosen spoke about how Boston…
A little while ago I wrote some articles on risk management in PhD’s, and on the importance of broad mentorship of early-career health and medical research scientists. The feedback I got on both articles (especially the former) was really heart-warming, knowing that they’d echoed the sentiments of a lot of PhD graduates and early-career scientists. However,…
So today, I had the privileged of hearing John Daly, CEO of the Grattan Institute, and Simon McKeon, Chair of the Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research – Better Health through Research speak at two different events about the current and future state of the Australian healthcare landscape. Without going into the specific details they…
It’s been a while since I last blogged – I guess you could say I’ve been focussing on the PhD rather than entertaining the random thoughts that float around in my head (probably a good thing!) I was recently asked to do a radio interview for a Sunday morning science show, and had been advised…
Over the last nine months, I have been given the opportunity to train fellow colleagues within my research team about the very unique experimental methodologies I’d developed as part of my research project. I’ll be clear: I didn’t really need to do this as part of my PhD candidature, and I know that some people…
Today, WordPress was very keen to remind me that it had been a year since I signed up and created this blog. It’s incredible how quickly time flies when you’re having fun. Things have come a fair way since April last year both within the health and medical industry, as well as the biotech sector;…
So a friend of mine in a university business development office has been chatting to me recently about starting a conversation between engineers and clinicians to foster a cross-discipline culture within the university, and perhaps more specifically, in the area of medical technology. And it got me thinking – why hasn’t this culture taken off…
Committing yourself to a PhD project is a serious undertaking – you are committing yourself to between three and six years in the pursuit of answering a question, or exploring and making sense of new ideas and new thinking. Inevitably, there will be roadblocks and obstacles that present themselves which can impede your path to…
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