Articles | Earlham Institute

25 February 2019

FEATURE | 5 min READ

My obscure route into science: Neil Shearer

Neil Shearer went from a pig farm to potato picking and gravedigging before getting a PhD. It’s not always a straightforward route into science!

05 February 2019

FEATURE | 5 min READ

Year of the pig: Flu, you swine!

To usher in the Year of the Pig - a peek into one of Earlham Institute’s research areas: swine flu.

01 October 2018

Learning PhD Blog

FEATURE | 5 min READ

PhD by experience

We speak to Dr Darren Heavens, who after over 30 years’ experience in genomics research; from pig breeding to improving wheat yield, went down an alternative PhD route.

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