The public needs you! Why public engagement is so important for science and what you can do as a scientist

Also available as a podcast here. The problem I’m not from a particularly academic family. Neither of my parents went to university and whilst my dad was a very practical, hands-on person, my mum is much more interested in words than ‘facts’. Having said this, my grandfather studied Physics at Imperial College in London and

Plain language summary: A pandemic within a pandemic? Admission to COVID-19 wards in hospitals is associated with increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in two African settings

Also available as an audio podcast here. This is a plain language summary of a paper we (myself and colleagues from the Centre for Clinical Microbiology at UCL, and colleagues from HerpeZ in Lusaka, Zambia and the Institute for Endemic Diseases (IEND) in Khartoum, Sudan) wrote about how well prepared countries in sub-Saharan Africa are

Learning to embrace the blips: the highs and lows of running workshops and how problems are lessons in themselves

Also available as a podcast here. I’ve been in my current postdoc position for about four and a half years now (that’s considered a long time in academia!) and I’ve run countless workshops: both lab-based and virtual, in the UK and abroad, and there’s always something to keep you on your toes, that you’ve never come

Online training: how sitting at home in your pyjamas is changing the face of global health

Listen to the podcast version of this article Thanks to COVID-19, apart from my time spent working in the lab on clinical trials, most of my interactions with other people were held hostage by the internet. Before adopting a dog forced me to leave the house twice a day, I could occasionally be found still