In this post, Dr Mike Esbester, Senior Lecturer in History, thinks about how we help PhD students and Early Career Researchers as they immerse themselves in the academic research community. Mike’s research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, particularly on the cultural history of safety, risk and accident prevention, and on the history of mobility. He has been working on the ‘Railway, Life & Death‘ project in conjunction with the National Railway Museum. A database that details the stories of nearly 4,000 individuals who were killed or injured at work, is available online. There’s been some discussion recently on Twitter about how established academics treat our up-and-coming colleagues – particularly PhD students and […]
