Episode 5: Owen Middleton, Final year PhD Student, University of Sussex

The life of a PhD student: trusting your gut whilst avoiding monkey poop to the face.
In this episode of the CBER Lunchbox Podcast, host Jess Williams chats to final year PhD student Owen Middleton. Owen shares how he fell in love with ecology (with the help of sangria), the best thing about doing a PhD, advice he wished he’d heard at the start of his PhD, and what he’d do with unlimited funding. He also reveals the one thing you should never go into the field without and some of his newfound hobbies resulting from the UK being in lockdown.
“The CBER Lunchbox Podcast aims to highlight what it's like to be a scientist. In each episode, we will sit down with a guest for an informal chat about how they got into science, what their day-to-day is like, and the ups and downs of being a scientist. Through this podcast, we want to learn more about the people behind the lab coats and PowerPoints, showcasing the diversity of people within science, of ways of getting (or falling) into science, and the lives we lead (both in- and outside our science jobs).” … CBER Lunchbox Podcast team