I wasn’t lying when I told Dr Izzy Moore I’d wear my best jumper to chair journal club this week 👩🏽‍🏫 ‘tis the season after all 🎄

It me 🙋🏽‍♀️

It's finally published! Read "An interdisciplinary examination of stress and injury occurrence in athletes" here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Thanks to all the authors and everyone at Cardiff Metropolitan University who was involved in one way or another! #sports #injury #phdchat #sportsscience

And 5. Kept being an ace supervisor throughout 👌🏽👸🏼

Less than 12 months to finish the PhD feels like...

True story... this my face in every meeting

PhD’s get hard, but spending evenings watching RuPaul's Drag Race AND RuPaul's Drag Race UK certainly helps 👸

First virtual conference presentation ☑️ BASES 2021 Student Conference. Presented one of my PhD studies looking at the probability of injury - nerves were still shaky even from the comfort of my own home 😬🤪

Bossin’ it @TitchHolly 💪🏽👸🏻

What else would you do on a Sunday morning other than make your own website 🤷🏽‍♀️ leahbitchell.netlify.app #rstats #blogdown

PhD Rangers Assemble 💪🏼 #SquadGoals Dr Izzy Moore @TitchHolly Ben Robson Molly McCarthy-Ryan

Found my work colleague sleeping on the job again 🙄

The probability of injury in professional Rugby Union - we used the Poisson model to analyse the injury risk at a player-specific level Cardiff Met Doctoral Researcher Group #DRSymposium21 KESS 2 #injuryrisk #RugbyUnion

🏆 Award ceremony - 10 minute presentation 🏆 🥇Dr Jennifer Ward Joint 🥈Ben Robson 🥈Leah Bitchell Congratulations everyone 👏🏻 Massive thank you to everyone who presented, really great day! The judges definitely had a tough job! #DRSymposium21 #SymposiwmYD21

Presented one of the chapters from the PhD at the #DRSymposium21 today, looking at team vs individual estimates of injury rates in professional Rugby Union - and even came away with a joint second place award for the 10 minute presentation 🥳🚀 Cardiff Met Doctoral Researcher Group KESS 2

Not only is Dr Izzy Moore an excellent PhD supervisor, she also has great cake baking tips that have resulted in this for my dad’s 60th… first time using fondant too 😬

Had a play with the analysis from a PhD chapter and made an R shiny app 🤓leahbitchell.netlify.app/2021/09/05/liv… #rstats #rshiny #blog

What better way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis than with fish & chips and a side of champagne 🍾

VIVA ✔️ big thanks to caemery Stephen Mellalieu, Marianne Gittoes and of course my supervisory team Dr Izzy Moore @VH_Stiles Dr Gemma Robinson. Something I'm sure I'll be proud of once my brain has recovered 🤯 (thanks Ben Robson for the graphics)

We at Human Data Sciences are hiking 26 miles along the Wales coastal path in the Gower this weekend to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Any contributions would be greatly appreciated 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️ justgiving.com/fundraising/ph…