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Tag Archives: PhD
4 New Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Find out the 4 new recipes on how to become a top researcher, shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged PhD, recipe, research, researcher, scientist, success, top scientist
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Living on the Edge: Landlocked Seals in a Changing Climate
Even when there’s enough food, continuously warmer winters may make the ringed seal extinct. Such is the gloomy conclusion made by Mart Jüssi, a seal biologist at the University of Tartu, in his freshly defended doctoral thesis. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, climate change, ecology, ice, land-locked grey seal, PhD, PhD thesis, ringed seal, seal
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Underground Filled with Life
Scientists from the University of Tartu used innovative methods to figure out the gene sequences of plants beneath the surface of the soil. This led to the discovery that species richness among them is much greater than one can see above the ground. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged biodiversity, DNA, ecology, grasslands, macroecology, meadows, molecular ecology, PhD, plant species, roots, underground diversity
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Foxy Folklorist Mistaken for a Sex Professor
This a story of Jeana Jorgensen, a visiting PhD student in folklore and gender studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia, told through her tweets. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research, Tartu
Tagged dance, digital humanities, dissertation, fairy tales, feminist theory, folklore, folklorist, gender studies, inspiration, PhD, twitter
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140 Years Ago Wolves Still Ate People in Estonia
On a cold day, a tipsy drum player happened to come home in the dark in Tartu County. While on the road, he was attacked by a pack of wolves. Only some rags and bare bones were left of the … Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged humans and wolves, man-eating wolves, PhD, PhD thesis, wolf, wolves in Estonia
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The Historical Jesus: The Problem of Science in the Context of Religion
Ain Riistan, a researcher of religious studies at UT and an associate professor at Tartu Theological Seminary, discusses his PhD thesis entitled “The Historical Jesus: the Problem of Science in the Context of Religion”. Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Research
Tagged historical Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Christ, PhD, PhD thesis, religion studies, religious studies
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