PhD candidate Saurab Sharma writes for us this month about the challenges of starting in pain research!! Saurab is a PhD candidate at University of Otago, NZ studying musculoskeletal pain. He is also an Assistant Professor at Department of Physiotherapy at Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Nepal. He is the editor of the blog linkphysio.com,...

Interested in pain and neuroplasticity? This may be the opportunity for you! The Center for Neuroplasticity And Pain (CNAP) at Aalborg University (Denmark) is a Center of Excellence funded in 2017 by the Danish National Research Foundation. It is led by principal investigators of international reputation within the pain field and with longstanding...

From Alessandro Why and how to stay in research after your PhD?! You may be facing your PhD journey, you may have published your first paper(s) and you may start wondering whether to stay in academia (or not). So, you may be looking for some good reasons to stay and/or some good reasons to leave before or after you have obtained your PhD. This post...

Sydney Pain Researchers: the Next Generation (SPRiNG) 2017 The SPRiNG 2017 was held last week at the University of Sydney. The idea of the event was to bring together research students and early career researchers in the musculoskeletal pain field in Sydney and Newcastle. The organising committee (myself, Tie, James, Steve, Chris, Hopin and Claire)...

  Hello ICECReamers! The SPRiNG 2017 will be held next Monday on November 20th. The idea is to bring together pain researchers and students from Sydney and Newcastle to a one-day symposium. We want to promote collaboration and networking among different research groups that study similar topics. Students are invited to bring a poster as a way to...

Aidan Cashin shares his experience at the International Back and Neck Pain Forum in this brilliant post! Aidan is in the first year of his PhD Candidature at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). His research involves investigating the mechanisms of treatments for chronic low back pain. In particular, using mediation analysis to better understand...