{"id":1782,"date":"2025-12-18T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/icpostgrad\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:16:12","slug":"ighi-phd-christmas-social-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/icpostgrad\/2025\/12\/18\/ighi-phd-christmas-social-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"IGHI PhD Christmas Social 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>by Tricia <!--StartFragment --><span class=\"cf0\">Tay, <!--StartFragment -->Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Surgery &amp; Cancer<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"cf0\"><!--EndFragment --><\/span><!--EndFragment -->We would like to thank Early Career Researcher Institute for funding our Christmas social. The original plan was to a research presentation where we provide updates of our PhDs in the morning to the group followed by lunch in a nearby caf\u00e9. We applied for funding for the lunch. However, our supervisor cancelled the research meeting after we had obtained funding.<\/p>\n<p>Our team went ahead with the lunch and shared informally updates of our PhDs and lives in 2025. Our team of 18 PhD and Clinical Research Fellows work across various campuses including White City, St Mary\u2019s and South Kensington. This is our first successful Christmas social lunch. We voted to eat at Bondi Green in Paddington. We shared life updates, highlights of our year, top tips for a successful PhD from final year students for first and second-year PhD candidates. 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