Dr Andrea Lucherini, FRISSBE senior researcher, offered a workshop entitled “SurvivingEnjoying and mastering your PhD” to the PhD students of the Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments programme at the University of Primorska, Slovenia.

During his international research career in Denmark, Australia, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Slovenia, Dr Lucherini experienced various research environments and philosophies around the “PhD journey”. In an informal interactive workshop where students enthusiastically participated and asked many questions, he discussed his secrets of enjoying and mastering the PhD journey and becoming successful research students.