Season 2 Episode 6 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Graham Riach.

Graham Riach studied at the University of Glasgow before starting a Ph.D. at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 2011 on the contemporary South African short story. He works as a translator of French and Japanese, and composes music for films.

For more information and related links please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/graham-riach-the-postapartheid-short-story

The Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

Season 2 Episode 5 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Eleanor Giraud.

Eleanor Giraud is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Music. Her research examines how certain Dominican books were made and notated in Paris in the mid-thirteenth century.

For further information and related links please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/eleanor-giraud-manuscript-makers-and-music-notators

The Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

Season 2 Episode 2 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Katie Hammond.

Katie is a second year PhD student in the Department of Sociology. She is interested in the experience of Canadian egg donors and intended parents, and the role of the Canadian assistive reproductive technology legislation surrounding egg donation. Her current research is an extension of work that she conducted for her MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies.

For further information and interesting links please see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/katie-hammond-on-egg-donation-in-canada

The Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

Season 2 Episode 3 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Andy Wimbush.

Andy Wimbush is a third year PhD candidate in English at Darwin College researching Samuel Beckett's enduring interest in quietism as a personal solution and artistic inspiration.

For further information and related links please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/andy-wimbush-beckett-and-quietism.

The Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

'So... what is it that you actually do?'

It's a question most PhD students have faced at some time during their study, and one which can be surprisingly difficult to answer. It's with this question in mind that Cambridge researchers Richard Blakemore and John Gallagher came up with the idea for the Cambridge PhDcasts, a new project undertaken in collaboration with CRASSH and now launching its second season.

The format is simple: every week, a PhD student sits down with our presenter, John Gallagher, and over copious amounts of tea we have a conversation about the work they do and why it matters. The PhDcasts are available as videos or podcasts and last about half an hour each. We've tried to aim each at an audience that's intelligent and interested, but with no prior experience in the speaker's field.

To find out more, go to http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk.

Season 2 Episode 1 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Danika Parikh on 'Iconography and Identity'.

Danika Parikh is a final year PhD student in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, working on ceramic economy and the relationship between ceramics and material culture in rural northwest India during the Indus Civilisation (3200-1900 BC).

For more details, including links to additional materials, please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/danika-parikh

To find out more about Cambridge PhDcasts, go to http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

'So... what is it that you actually do?'

It's a question most PhD students have faced at some time during their study, and one which can be surprisingly difficult to answer. It's with this question in mind that Cambridge researchers Richard Blakemore and John Gallagher came up with the idea for the Cambridge PhDcasts, a new project undertaken in collaboration with CRASSH and now launching its second season.

The format is simple: every week, a PhD student sits down with our presenter, John Gallagher, and over copious amounts of tea we have a conversation about the work they do and why it matters. The PhDcasts are available as videos or podcasts and last about half an hour each. We've tried to aim each at an audience that's intelligent and interested, but with no prior experience in the speaker's field.

To find out more, go to http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk.

'Of Monsters and Mangled Tongues - Tales from Early Modern English Medical Advertising, 1660-1720'

Season 1 Episode 6 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Michelle Wallis.

Season 1 Episode 5 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Susan Raich.

Season 1 Episode 4 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Alice Blackhurst.