{"id":899,"date":"2017-09-25T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/?p=899"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:36:24","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2017\/09\/25\/welcome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We would like to welcome all new postgraduates to Newcastle and of course welcome back everyone else!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are really excited to meet you all!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2017\/06\/DAQ6LvUWAAEgUHY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2017\/06\/DAQ6LvUWAAEgUHY-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"daq6lvuwaaeguhy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2017\/06\/DAQ6LvUWAAEgUHY-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2017\/06\/DAQ6LvUWAAEgUHY-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2017\/06\/DAQ6LvUWAAEgUHY-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2017\/06\/DAQ6LvUWAAEgUHY.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The committee has changed quite a bit this year and we have some great ideas for the coming months so watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>So what do we do? In a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seminar series<\/li>\n<li>Socials<\/li>\n<li>Christmas and end of year parties<\/li>\n<li>Journal<\/li>\n<li>Blogging and other social media<\/li>\n<li>Conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As we all know, doing your PhD or MA is hardly a walk in the park; everyone is isolated by the uniqueness of their research, which can make it seem like no one really understands what you are going through. We also know that it can be difficult for people to get involved if they don\u2019t live locally, if they work, or are doing their Postgraduate degree\u00a0part time. That is why, this year, we are making a concerted effort to match our lively presence within the School as well as\u00a0online &#8211; find us also on twitter \u00a0and facebook!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"660\" data-height=\"990\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewcastlePGF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by NewcastlePGF<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewcastlePGF<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/PGFNewcastle\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We aim to get to know each other better and share our research interests. \u00a0We will use this space to advertise our events and update you through our monthly newsletters. \u00a0In the next few days\u00a0we will collecting information for our postgraduate profiles, which we would like to post up on this site for you all to know who we are and what we do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There is lots going on, so\u00a0we hope to see you all at our events and perhaps even blogging for us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">The PGF committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to welcome all new postgraduates to Newcastle and of course welcome back everyone else! We are really excited to meet you all! The committee has changed quite a bit this year and we have some great ideas for the coming months so watch this space! So what do we do? In a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2017\/09\/25\/welcome-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pons-aelius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}