Congratulations Dr Pink_fluff!!!

The seminar I went to was organised by Thames Restek. They are doing a few all over the UK. I know that one of my other suppliers, Phenomenex, also does a series of seminars on HPLC. It's worth checking them out, because they are also nice networking opportunities and a way to get discounts from your suppliers ;)

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I ran my calibration curve with a know amount of standard solution, made up of known amounts of pure compounds. Worked brilliantly! So using a mixture is no problem, as long as you know what's in there. And when in doubt you can always run a separate compound afterwards to confirm your conclusions.

On another note... I've been to a very good HPLC seminar in London last week... really helpful! Learned lots!

Yay Dr Chuff!!

Eating and sleeping in the PG Common room... I though I was being weird nearly living in my office, but I'm not sleeping there yet :D I'm at Essex/Writtle by the way, and so is Bendy :)

I'm looking forward to reading this! and everybody has a dark side... even ivory towery scientists ;)

Cakeman, I've seen things that make your dream sounds fairly normal... ;-)

Yay Dr Rick!! Congrats and well done!

Yep, same here, although I have plenty administrative and literature work to do instead though ;)

These spam thingies are actually quite hilarious... I don't think they even realise/bother to look what forum they post on!

Hi Sri,

I know that the Essex Business School (Uni of Essex) does a good MBA programme, and University of Essex also offers Health sciences, but I have no idea whether they do an MBA in Health Care (I am in Biological Sciences). Check out the website for more info: http://www.essex.ac.uk/coursefinder/?search=&pgt=&ft=&sa=BEMS

Uni of Essex is not too far from London...

Good luck!

I'm a GTA, so I get to teach during my PhD, and am also enrolled in a PG Cert HE, so hopefully when I finish my PhD I will also have my HE teaching qualification.

Thanks for that... sensitive subject I see...

To my opinion, making people write RAs does not prevent injury or death... proper training does. So I therefore think writing a RA for every little procedure you do, and then not following it up with a safety course, is not the most effective way of preventing accidents. Where I come from, laboratory safety training courses are mandatory, as are an annual refresher training and training with every major piece of equipment before you can use it of even enter a lab. And with "ridiculously complicated" I meant that writing a RA for proper use of scales or fridges is pushing it too far... dangerous stuff, fine, but every stupid knows that if you drop a glass beaker it will break and as such you should be careful.

Don't get me wrong here, I do believe H&S are very important! Lab work can be dangerous... I simply come from a country where things are done differently, and we don't have more accidents than the UK does, but our H&S implementation just seems less time consuming! Instead of sitting behind my computer for hours writing RAs, I can also do safety courses and equipment training in those hours... As for not being mature and able to do independent research... we'll see. Perhaps I'm not, but I do picked up the habit of being critical, questioning everything and trying to find better ways, that's a start isn't it?

My supervisor cam by with a little surprise today... I hae to write risk assessments for every lab procedure I am going to do (which up until now is about 30, but still counting). Did anybody else who does lab work go through the same thing? Did you "borrow" from other RAs? Did your department have them?

Way too much work... the only thing I found so far after moving to the UK is that the H&S regulations are ridiculously complicated and a lot of administrative work! I don't have time for all of this stuff ,-)

Congratulations Jojo! Well done. Get some deserved rest and time off, and start on your corrections with a fresh mind!