Research Fest 2025 - Halloween Edition - The Horror of Research
Event description
The Horror of Research
Sometimes, research goes sideways. Experiments collapse. The stats betray you. Deadlines haunt your dreams. And just when you think you’ve got it all together… the data ghosts you.
Welcome to Research Fest 2025 – two days of stories, solutions, and spooktacular fails from HDRs and experts alike.
Join us for:
Candid HDR presentations about research methods, mishaps, and learning the hard way (Meet my Methods – Gone Wrong!)
Expert Scary Situation sessions from the Researcher Development team
Fun competitions like PhD as Haiku and Tattoo Your PhD
Pizza-fuelled problem solving with a wizard/fortune teller
Costume prizes, corridor decorations, and Halloween vibes throughout
You’ll laugh. You’ll learn. You might even scream.
Expert Session Highlights:
🧠 It’s alive… but no one understands it (Research communication)
🧵 Franken-thesis (Thesis by publication)
⏳ The deadline was coming from inside the house… (Project management)
📉 The terrifying tale of standard deviations (Stats)
🧭 The curse of the unplanned career (Career planning)
📚 Tales from the editorial crypt (Publishing)
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