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  • Aug 14 / 2015
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Academia, PhD Experience, Ruth Agbakoba

…it’s nice to see you, to see you nice! How to get the best out of a world congress

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Photo by Korean Culture and Information Service © 2010. UNESCO WCAE. From Wikimedia Commons.

By Ruth Agbakoba

You may be thinking that this week’s blog post is a tribute to Sir Bruce Forsyth or a reminder of the classic TV show ‘play your cards right’! I know!! L “Come on down” Unfortunately and I’m sorry to disappoint you but it is not entirely. Hopefully I have succeeded in getting your attention though! In my previous post I talked about my ‘five top tips for writing a conference paper’. Now your paper has been accepted (congratulations!) and you are due to attend this amazing conference! What do you do next? Well the purpose of this post is to really highlight and capture how best to participate and gain the most value from a research conference in particular a World Congress. Continue Reading

  • Jan 14 / 2015
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Academia, Ruth Agbakoba

Five top tips for writing a conference paper

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By Ruth Agbakoba

This is my first ever blog post for IHAWKES and I feel that it is quite a fitting time for me to reflect and share some of my personal experiences as a doctoral student.  I am a final year MRC DTP (Medical Research Council, Doctoral Training Programme) funded PhD Student evaluating the implementation of the Living It Up project (a digital health and wellbeing service) which is part of a £37 million UK wide programme called DALLAS. I am particularly interested in a) how innovative digital technologies and services can be used to enhance health and wellbeing and b) how such interventions can be routinized into people’s daily lives. The project is supported by NHS 24, Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare (SCTT), the Scottish Government and Innovate UK (Department of Health). Continue Reading

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