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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90 and Thriving: Dr Bronwyn Herbert’s Later-in-Life PhD Kept Her Feeling Younger

At ninety years old, Dr Bronwyn Herbert has completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. The PhD Place had the pleasure of interviewing her across the globe to share her inspiring story with our readers! Drawing on her extensive career in social work and her wealth of life experience, Bronwyn promotes the joy of lifelong learning and showcases the power of resilience that every PhD student can seek to emulate.

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