YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN is the online community I would have loved to have when I was a PhD student myself. A safe space where I could share my research, without the need to use complex words and oversell my work as I felt sometimes tempted to do when submitting an article to a scientific journal. A free place of scientific exchange, without the stress and frustration reviewers’ comments would bring me. A podium without borders, where many PhD students from different countries and disciplines would also have the opportunity to see what my research was about, and which impact it could have on the society. An informal networking place, where I could contact young scientists of my generation in an informal and easy way, via e-mail or social media, without feeling uncomfortable as I may have felt during conferences. An inspiring space, where I could have expressed my creativity in a less traditional way than what was expected from me on the working floor. A comforting platform, where I could have realized that the struggles I was sometimes facing during my PhD were shared by many, many other PhD students all around the world.
I created YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN with the aim to make it the online space where talented brains tell their tales.
YOU – yes, you! – have the brain and the talent. You belong to the future of our society with your science, your projects, your current and future knowledge, and the skills you are acquiring along this incredible journey. You have fabulous, inspiring, awesome, mind-blowing, maybe life-saving tales to tell.
With YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN, I bring you a podium where you can share your scientific and academic stories with your peers – but not your usual PhD buddy Joe you will meet at every conference you go to! Rather, YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN offers an international and interdisciplinary podium that you can use to share your research, results, lack of results, plans, successes, anecdotes and struggles with other young scientists in STEM that are less familiar with your PhD research topic, but that are hungry for learning more about your science and want to support you during your academic journey.
We are all passionate about our PhD research but may sometimes have the feeling that the impact of our research on society is not as relevant or obvious as we want it to be. How many of us have been struggling explaining to their family or friends what type of research they are doing in their PhD (not to mention what doing a PhD actually means!)? With YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN, you have an additional opportunity to communicate about your science to a non-familiar audience, educate them, and raise awareness on your science.
Do you also want to join the community and share your scientific or academic tales? Jump on the page Tell a tale or contact us!