To PhD or not to PhD? That is the question

Umaymah and Charlotte

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Undergraduate student Umaymah Ahmad finds out what it’s like to go into academic research 

Last summer, I attended a postgraduate research symposium, and hearing about the world of research at an academic level led me to start thinking about my next steps. I am currently in my final year of my BSc and hoping to complete an MSc soon after. After that, there are a fair amount of question marks and tentative ‘maybes’.