{"id":654,"date":"2015-08-12T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/?p=654"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:55:50","slug":"whats-it-like-doing-an-environmental-science-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2015\/08\/12\/whats-it-like-doing-an-environmental-science-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s it like doing an environmental science PhD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former LEC PhD student <a href=\"http:\/\/eic.nerc.ac.uk\/staffwebpages\/drbenlangford.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Langford<\/a> describes his PhD research in the Amazon and Borneo in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvinephotography.com\/?p=336\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on his site. This is an excellent introduction on what PhD research &#8211; and science in general &#8211; is like, and definitely worth checking out if you&#8217;re considering this route.<\/p>\n<p>Ben now works for the <a href=\"http:\/\/eic.nerc.ac.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Ecology and Hydrology<\/a> just outside Edinburgh, continuing the work he started during his PhD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Former LEC PhD student Ben Langford describes his PhD research in the Amazon and Borneo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[11,63,7],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","tag-postgraduate","tag-research","tag-undergraduate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/02\/BenLangford.png?fit=300%2C200","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rD16-ay","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}