My advice to anyone thinking of undertaking a PhD at Loughborough is to just put yourself out of your comfort zone and go for it! Nobody can imagine themselves doing a PhD until they are actually doing one. Talk to people that are already doing one, or lecturers that specialise in something similar to what you are interested in. You will have to put yourself out of your comfort zone, but that is definitely the best way for personal and professional growth.
After finishing my A Levels, I joined the ambulance service which really sparked my interest in the human body, so I decided to study an undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Loughborough University.
My final year undergraduate dissertation was researching the sedentary behaviour of ambulance workers; the results were quite shocking. This was my first bit of independent research and I loved it, so I knew I wanted to carry on down that path.