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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This Autumn, the Doctoral College will work with our partners at The Reverse Mentoring Practice to deliver a programme of Reverse Mentoring for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ReMEDI). This is the opportunity for postgraduate researchers from diverse, underrepresented groups to shape the organisational culture of the university by mentoring a senior member of staff here […]
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One of the highlights of the ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ conference was the culmination of the Three-Minute thesis (3MT) competition. Our amazing six finalists each addressed the public, who were able to vote for the ‘People’s Choice Winner’. The judging panel, consisting of Dr Allan Kilner-Johnson, Prof Nicholas Hills, Dr Femi Adeyemi-Ejeye and last year’s […]
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