Lab Stuff
Lab Management
Lab Handbook - document setting out the lab culture with various bits of useful info.
PhD Supervisor Accreditation - UK Council for Graduate Education guide to PhD supervison, you can apply for accreditation, like Fellowship to the HEA.
Supervisor expectations: sheet 1, sheet 2 and sheet 3 - worksheets to use with new PhD students to establish expectations.
Postdoc inclusive hiring - blog post dicussing how to hire a postdoc in a fair and inclusive way
Bioinformatics and Data Analysis
Beginner's guide to R - full walkthrough from installation, data handling and graphs to simple models.
Stats cheat sheet for R - absolubtly amazing guide to choosing the right stats for your data and even the code for how to do it!
Introduction to GitHub and why you need it.
Guide to ALICE - this is the UoL high performance computing system.
Publishing
Micropublications and Journal of Young Investigators - two different outlets for publishing small projects, such as undergraduate research.
Overleaf - this is the platform that the lab generally uses for collaborative paper writing, it involves knowing a bit of LaTeX.
Summer Students
Accomodation options:
- Merlin Herights: apparently ~£85pw during the summer.
- St George's Tower: apparently ~£158pw during the summer.
- University halls: Usually the halls on campus aren't available until mid July, but if you email and ask they may have something. This option is for Uni of Leicester students only.
- Nixon Court: University halls, £40 per night, all year.