{"id":8321,"date":"2019-10-29T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:36:47","slug":"supporting-a-nuffield-research-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8321","title":{"rendered":"Supporting a Nuffield Research Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8322\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-alexander-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie Alexander, The Open University.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-alexander-photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-alexander-photo.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophie Alexander, The Open University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the summer, I mentored a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuffieldfoundation.org\/nuffield-research-placements\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuffield Research Student<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I was originally interested in getting involved in the scheme to gain experience in teaching and mentorship. <\/p>\n<p>The student, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8308\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zaibaa<\/a>, worked to complete a pilot study, the results of which are now actively informing my PhD research direction. <\/p>\n<p>My time mentoring Zaibaa was really valuable; it challenged me to teach the scientific method of hypothesis testing to someone else. <\/p>\n<p>Further to this, I gained experience in project management and how to give feedback \u2013 which was harder than I thought! <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d highly recommend other PhD students consider designing and mentoring a Nuffield student in the future, particularly if you\u2019re interested in gaining experience of supervising projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/science\/environment-earth-ecosystems\/people\/pa2398\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Pallavi Anand<\/a> (project providers) supported my work as my PhD supervisor. I&#8217;m grateful for the the opportunity and funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuffieldfoundation.org\/nuffield-research-placements\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuffield Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer, I mentored a Nuffield Research Student. I was originally interested in getting involved in the scheme to gain experience in teaching and mentorship. The student, Zaibaa, worked to complete a pilot study, the results of which are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,48,8],"tags":[24,41,149,75,23,59],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","category-school-university-engagement","category-training","tag-engaging-opportunities","tag-engaging-with-school-students","tag-nuffield-research-bursary","tag-postgraduate-research","tag-supi","tag-women-and-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}