{"id":2422,"date":"2017-03-20T16:54:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2017-09-27T18:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:12:05","slug":"organising-a-conference-is-hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2017\/03\/20\/organising-a-conference-is-hard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Organising a conference is hard work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March arrives and it&#8217;s time for the annual Natural History Museum (NHM) Student Conference! I am on the student committee and so help with the organisation. There&#8217;s a lot to do organising a conference but we learnt from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2016\/03\/29\/the-natural-history-museum-student-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a> and with new members on the team it seemed a lot less stressful this year! Despite the stress and extra work being part of a committee and helping organising a conference is a great opportunity to learn useful skills and make contacts, so I highly recommend getting involved with one if you can.<\/p>\n<p>Talks are compulsory for 3rd year PhD students like me so although I had spoken at the two previous years&#8217; conferences (I need the practice :\\ ) I was yet again up on stage.\u00a0It was quite fun actually as last year I talked about developing my citizen science project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwormwatch.org\">Earthworm Watch <\/a>which was just about to launch, now it has been running a year so I was able to give the first results from the project. I was also able to talk about some of the amazing media and outreach opportunities it has given me, including getting a grant to attend the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2016\/06\/30\/earthworm-watch-at-the-bristol-festival-of-nature\/\"> Bristol Festival of Nature<\/a>, winning an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishecologicalsociety.org\/membership-community\/honours-awards-and-prizes\/public-engagement-awards\/\">award<\/a> for public engagement and being interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08m98qb\">Radio Four&#8217;s Gardeners&#8217; Question Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2423\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2423\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2017\/09\/Capture-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Burton talking about Earthworm Watch at the NHM Student Conference\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Burton talking about Earthworm Watch at the NHM Student Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/cobbers_ocean\/natural-history-museum-11th-student-conference-201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storify<\/a> for more of the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March arrives and it&#8217;s time for the annual Natural History Museum (NHM) Student Conference! I am on the student committee and so help with the organisation. There&#8217;s a lot to do organising a conference but we learnt from last year and with new members on the team it seemed a lot less stressful this year! 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