In addition to the writing retreats and writing cafés offered at Surrey (which you can sign up for on Surrey Self-Service), our doctoral and early career researchers can benefit from collaborative Virtual Writing Retreats offered by a group of universities that we have teamed up with. These retreats are of varying lengths and formats, and […]
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We are very pleased to welcome AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month) to Surrey again! AcWriMo takes place every November and provides a great opportunity for our doctoral researchers to engage in some writing development activities and make progress with their academic writing. Have a look at the AcWriMo 2023 programme below and sign up for as […]
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By Nadya Yakovchuk (Lecturer in Academic Writing, Doctoral College) In early July we hosted our annual Doctoral College Summer Writing Retreat – an intensive two-day event aimed at supporting PGRs and ECRs in making substantial progress with their writing. Since emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been running this retreat in a hybrid format. […]
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Between March and June this year, the annual 23 Things International programme brought together researchers from around the world. We’re celebrating a successful running of this unique project and wanted to share a few of our highlights. 23 things has contributed in helping me to find my feet in the academic world 23T is a […]
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Spotlight on Faith Howard The NHS turns 75 this month. Time to celebrate this by putting the spotlight on one of the amazing NHS-focused projects that our PGRs are engaged in. Faith Howard (pictured) is a PGR in the School of Health Sciences. Her PhD project is PROFRAIL: Capturing and measuring what matters most to […]
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The dust has settled on the 2023 PGR and ECR Conference, Making the Invisible Visible. Thank you to all those who attended or presented on the day. The sold-out event on the 15 June, allowed us to showcase and celebrate wide-reaching research that addressed important issues and unanswered questions. We invited academics and students from […]
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