This workshop, held on 27 June, aimed to spark discussion and debate around planning for finishing the doctoral thesis, drawing on the experiences of doctoral programme leaders and providing opportunities … Continue reading Planning for finishing the thesis
SHU doctoral researcher wins national literacy education award
Many congratulations to Chris Bailey from Education on winning the UK Literacy Association/Wiley Research in Literacy Education Award 2017. This prestigious award is given for the best article in the peer-reviewed journal … Continue reading SHU doctoral researcher wins national literacy education award
SIPS Launches Doctoral Student Poster Event
Doctoral researchers were awarded funding from the Doctoral School's Researcher Led Activities Fund to organise a poster event. Jill Dickinson and Michelle Newberry describe the successful event. 14 PhD students from across … Continue reading SIPS Launches Doctoral Student Poster Event
SHU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2017 results
Caroline Claisse, of the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) was named the winner of our 2017 Three Minute Thesis Competition. Fazila Husain and Mootaz Salman were commended by the judges. … Continue reading SHU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2017 results
Vitae focus on navigating the research environment
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/focus-on/previous-focus-on-themes/focus-on-navigating-the-research-environment Vitae's focus on navigating the research environment is designed to provide researchers with strategies to navigate and keep up with the ever-changing research environment. Their website contains a range … Continue reading Vitae focus on navigating the research environment
The Brilliant Club: A meaningful, well-paid teaching opportunity for PhD and Post-Doc researchers
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that recruits, trains and pays doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver programmes of university-style teaching to small tutorial groups of high-performing pupils in … Continue reading The Brilliant Club: A meaningful, well-paid teaching opportunity for PhD and Post-Doc researchers
Three Minute Thesis 2017
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition developed by the University of Queensland which challenges doctoral students to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance, … Continue reading Three Minute Thesis 2017
Reflections on the launch of the International Writing with Impact Network
Launch of the International Writing with Impact Network, March 2017 By Rachel Handforth This event held at the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, on 10th March, marked the … Continue reading Reflections on the launch of the International Writing with Impact Network
RDF Planner – new speedy assessment feature
Try a new feature to identify your strengths and weaknesses How often do you use your RDF Planner subscription? Perhaps you don’t have time to dig through layers of information … Continue reading RDF Planner – new speedy assessment feature
ESRC Festival of Social Science – Call for Event Proposals
We are delighted to confirm that Sheffield Hallam have been allocated funding to run public engagement events from the ESRC as part of this year’s Festival of Social Science which … Continue reading ESRC Festival of Social Science – Call for Event Proposals