• Question: I would love to hear about your proudest professional moment.

    Asked by anon-196637 to Sebastian, Paddy, Jennifer, Fiona on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Jennifer Harris

      Jennifer Harris answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I have two proudest professional moments:
      (1) Learning that my PhD thesis had been accepted by my examiners after edits and I could now graduate. It’s a big moment when experts in a field let you know that you’re work efforts for the past 4 years paid off.
      (2) Working on the Mental Health Act Review in 2018. This was a great patient focused bit of work that looked at how we can change legislation to support better healthcare for people with ill mental health. The easy read is here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762106/mha-recommendations-easy-read.pdf

    • Photo: Sebastian Cosgrove

      Sebastian Cosgrove answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      After my PhD I applied to get funding for my own project, and get a personal fellowship. This was an idea that I had come up with and written the whole proposal for the project myself and was lucky enough to get the funding! Overall the funding was worth around £45k, so a very proud moment for me!

    • Photo: Fiona Scott

      Fiona Scott answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      My moment happened just before Christmas. We had a visiting researcher who had done some of the foundational work that led to my project. I arranged to meet them for a coffee before they gave the lecture they had been invited for and he was pleased to see something that had been a small side project for him, had grown into a PhD project that I was carrying out. He even gave me a shoutout during his lecture which was a great feeling!

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