The Social and Economic Research Institute (SERI) Doctoral Student Colloquium is a great opportunity to engage in 3 practical, hands-on short sessions led by doctoral students from social and economic research areas: Deepali Brahmbhatt: 5 things I wish I'd known before I started my PhD Fides Matzdorf: How to get TOO much consent from your … Continue reading SERI Doctoral Student Colloquium
The Post Graduate Research Society will continue to run our Weekly Focus Thursday via Twitter and Zoom from 1st October onwards. You can join us via Twitter or Zoom every Thursday 9:30-11:30 to work in 30 min blocks, have quick chats inbetween and feel productive and social all at once! We will send out a link to all members. … Continue reading Focus Thursday – Postgraduate Research Society
Drop in PGR Virtual Café The Doctoral School runs a Friday morning Drop-in PGR Virtual Café – so please join us each Friday via the RESEARCH DEGREES blackboard site collaborate session (email doctoralschool@shu.ac.uk for the link). The virtual café offers an opportunity to network with other members of the SHU PGR community in an informal online setting. … Continue reading Drop in PGR Virtual Café
Following on from our Induction/Welcome session, the Ethics briefing and the Researcher Development session, we’d now like to invite you to the fourth session in the series. The quality of your relationship with your supervisor or supervisors can be crucial to the progress of your doctorate. There are some common student: supervisor relationship issues for … Continue reading Let’s Talk about Managing Supervisory Relationships
The Post Graduate Research Society will continue to run our Weekly Focus Thursday via Twitter and Zoom from 1st October onwards. You can join us via Twitter or Zoom every Thursday 9:30-11:30 to work in 30 min blocks, have quick chats inbetween and feel productive and social all at once! We will send out a link to all members. … Continue reading Focus Thursday – Postgraduate Research Society
This session will demonstrate strategies for editing your doctoral thesis. We will explore a range of editing techniques that cover the whole thesis, focusing on three key priorities for doctoral writing: Clarity, word count, and narrative coherence. Book via Unihub - link to follow
Who doesn't love a Virtual Pub Quiz!? Our next pub quiz will take place on Friday 20th November 6:30 - 9:30pm this is a BYO-beer/pizza/whatever you fancy quiz with four rounds: General Knowledge, Music, Say What You See, and Idiot Questions - with a bonus picture round. There is also a Prize up for grabs for each member of the … Continue reading Postgraduate Research Society Virtual Pub Quiz
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A virtual writing retreat following Rowena Murray’s writing structure. Murray, R & Newton, M (2009) Writing retreat as structured intervention: Margin or mainstream?, Higher Education Research and Development, 28(5): 527-539. email Katrina Fleming for details.