Dr Emma Yhnell

Teachers’ Day Appreciation Post

Over the past few weeks I have been involved in an outreach activity called I’m a Scientist Get Me Out of Here! It is a brilliant initiative where school children chat to scientists in an online space, and they can ask us scientists absolutely anything (although it is moderated to avoid any silliness which might…

As I write this blog, we are rapidly hurtling towards the end of 2020. It can’t come quickly enough for me and it seems many others have the same feelings. Well, who can blame us? As I was Zooming my friends the other day (a phrase that I didn’t even know existed 9 months ago),…

Tis the season… well almost anyway! With less than a week to go until the big day your Christmas plans might still be very much up in the air. But, the big question still remains; what do you buy the person who has everything: your annoyingly perfect older brother? Many companies are now marketing commercial…

Yes, that’s right, it is nearly Halloween! It looks like there won’t be any trick or treating this year. But that’s ok, because I’m still recovering from the fact that I was never allowed to go trick or treating as a kid! Last week, as I was walking around my local supermarket eyeing up all…

“What’s it like to be a triplet?”, a question I’m often asked. After all, siblings and families are often topics that come up in polite conversation and people are often shocked when I say “I’m actually one of triplets.” To many people this seems like a complete and utter revelation, there are gasps, shocked faces…

Publications are often seen as the ‘bread and butter’ of academic life. Personally, I think that there is a lot more to academic life than publishing research, but nonetheless, I was delighted to find out that the results of my most recent study had been accepted for publication in Pilot and Feasibility Studies. For a…

Publishing academic research is often seen as the ‘bread and butter’ of academic life. Many academics are judged on their research output by the articles that they publish and the journals that they publish their work in. In this post, by articles I mean research articles which are original pieces of research and by journals…

The rise in the availability and accessibility of ‘Commercial Genetic testing’ (genetic tests offered by commercial organisations that are often completed at home and then sent back to the company) has sparked a lot of debate recently. After reading a BBC New Story – Genetic tests: Experts urge caution over home testing. I wanted to…