Tess is a PhD student in Computing at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Tess’ PhD is entitled ‘Improving Healthcare AI-Support Systems for Visually Detectable Diseases: A Mixed Learning Approach on the Edge’ and explores the ways in which diagnostic tools can be made accessible to those in remote and low-connectivity areas. She has also published research in machine translation, demonstrating the importance of interpreting low-resource languages. Twitter: @TessWOfficial

How to Handle the Jump Straight from Undergrad to PhD 

Are you considering going straight from an undergraduate degree to a PhD, skipping the master’s? At 22 years old, Tess shares her experience of this and provides some valuable insights about how she prepared and applied for her PhD in Computing without doing a master’s degree.

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Full-Circle Journey of a Doctoral Student: Applications, Interviews, and Mentoring Others 

This article takes the reader on a journey of a doctoral student, from applications, interviews, and building a relationship with supervisors, to coming full circle by mentoring other students starting out and facing challenges. The writer shares their advice and their own personal experience of each stage, including their fulfilling mentoring work promoting awareness of mental wellbeing among PhD students.

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