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The student voice is important. Students are the lifeblood of the university, and ensuring that our postgraduate voices are represented out there is a critical part of the PGSA’s mission (even if we are sometimes ignored).

Imagine you are asked to recall the happiest moments of your life: what would this look like for you? Think about it; embrace that sweet nostalgia.

My name is Leo and I am the newest member of the PGSA executive team. Looking back at editorials from earlier this year, there is a theme of ‘coping’ or ‘dealing’ with your postgraduate studies. I would like to head into unchartered water and talk about conferences!

As a PhD student in my final year of research (yes final, no one say it too loud thanks), I’ve recently found myself taking a quiet moment among the waves of stress to think about what I’d do differently if I were to embark on a PhD journey again.

Ever get the feeling you shouldn’t be a postgraduate? Surely you’re just one meeting away from being found out and asked to leave forever. How come everyone else knows what they’re doing but you don’t?

Whether you’ve metamorphosed into an IT nerd, a lab expert or a library hermit, ‘writing’ has become an indispensable practice of our graduate and post-graduate lives.

Loneliness and isolation are now often referred to as an ‘epidemic’ in the media and in academia. Earlier this year, the UK appointed its first ‘Minister for Loneliness’, in an attempt to address what PM Theresa May described as the “sad reality of modern life”.

I recently saw an Instagram story in which Will Smith proclaimed, “Fail early, fail often, fail forward”. Somehow, this idea connected with me, and I decided to write about it.