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In photos: Gaffa Tape Sandy at The Bodega, with Really Big Really Clever and Airport Dad

Pubhd Nottingham Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mri) Special

Church Girls and Really Big Really Clever

PubhD Preview: An Interview with Vivyan Lisewski-Hobson

PubhD's November event is a tree special - we had a chat with one of the speakers, Vivyan Lisewski-Hobson, to learn about how she's been getting ready for this tree-mendous event

PubhD Preview: An Interview with Michelle Strickland

PubhD is back at The Vat & Fiddle on Tuesday - we sat down with one of the speakers, Michelle Strickland, to learn about how she has been preparing

PubhD Preview: An Interview with Simon Tarr

PubhD is back at The Vat & Fiddle on Wednesday - we sat down with one of the speakers, Simon Tarr, to learn about how he has been preparing

Talking Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Pub

PubhD. The evening that combines research with... pints. With the Lavender Language and Linguistics conference taking place in Nottingham, PubhD put on a special event, inviting some of the conference attendees to speak. The theme of the conference was Language, Gender and Identity, and each of the talks fitted into this theme...

PubhD at The Vat and Fiddle: Deafness and Blindness, Carbon Capture, and Global Studies

Spring has sprung, science is in the air. Three more researchers came down to PubhD to tell us all about their work over a pint or two, and our Gav Squires was there to gather up the good stuff…

PubhD #35: Electronics, Engineering and Chemistry

PubhD returns the evening after Valentine's Day, bringing with it a whole lotta love. Of science...

PubhD Down The Vat: Antibiotics, Roman Phoenician Coins, and Macroecology

PubhD powers into the new year, celebrating its third birthday. The format hasn't changed in those three years – three local researchers each have ten minutes to talk about their work, followed by a twenty-minute question and answer session..

PubhD at The Vat and Fiddle: Psychiatric Hospitals, Mathematical Networks, and Human Geography

Clever clogseses come from near (University of Nottingham) and far (Nottingham Trent University) to talk about their research in front of a pub full of interested punters. It must be PubhD

PubhD at The Vat and Fiddle: Cultural Astronomy, Osteoarthritis and Kindertransport

Every month, some of the city’s cleverest clogs meet up in the pub to share, in layman’s terms, what they’ve been researching for their PhD. The next one is on Wednesday 16 November at The Vat and Fiddle if you fancy getting down to learn a thing or two…

PubhD #31: Russian Heavy Metal Music, The Roman Empire and Trees, Education in Cuba

Time for three local researchers to decamp to PubhD at The Vat & Fiddle to talk about their work  

PubhD #30: Anti-Bacterial Resistance, Wetlands and Sustainable Chemistry

At each PubhD event, three researchers from any subject area explain their work to an audience in a pub in exchange for a drink or two. The talks are at a "pub level"

PubhD #29: Classics, Chemistry, and History

PubhD bursts into summer in a very warm Vat & Fiddle

PubhD #28: Astronomy Special

It's all about science at the owd Vat and Fiddle

The Clever Clogs of PubhD

"Three local researchers have ten minutes to explain their work. There's no PowerPoint presentation, but speakers are allowed to bring props, and have to talk at a 'man in pub' level"

PubhD #27: Politics, Palaeontology and 'Pies vs Parson'

"There is nothing alive today that is like them, which makes looking at their biology very difficult"

PubhD #26: History, Physics and Chemistry at The Vat and Fiddle

How will local researchers cope with only having ten minutes to talk about their work?

PubhD #25: Literature, Mathematical Physics and Microbiology

Did you know there's about 30,000 useful chemicals in crude oil? Or that you can model a black hole in a bath tub? Us neither

PubhD #21: Chemistry, History and Mathematics

Get the lowdown on what the boffins are getting stuck into for their PhDs, but in plain speak

PubhD #20: Chemistry, Mathematical Physics, Biomedicine

Can three researchers explain their research to pub goers in just 10 minutes with only a whiteboard to help?

PubhD #19: Theoretical Physics, Politics, Security Studies

Three local researchers each have ten minutes to do a "pub level" talk about their research with only a whiteboard to present with