Workshop date: Thu 17 June 14:00 – 15:00

We are looking for PGR volunteers, who would be willing to facilitate a peer to peer discussion based on questions/issues that the participants raise and a willingness to share their own experiences and expertise of having written up a dissertation/final year project. We would like representation from all three faculties.

Format:  We are taking a blended approach to the workshop. The students will have access to a series of online teaching resources which will cover various aspects of writing a dissertation/final year project. They are expected to engage with this material prior to the workshop. This is followed up with a live zoom session on the workshop dates shown above, which will be a discussion/Q&A forum. The plan is to group students by discipline (as much as possible) and allocate them to a breakout room with a PGR of the same discipline (or as close as possible). Each participant will be expect to come up with one question that they want to discuss in the breakout room.

The idea is to have a peer to peer discussion with the PGR facilitating and sharing their expertise to the issues raised by the students in their breakout group. This will last about 20 minutes. Then we will then bring everyone back to the main meeting and ask each group to highlight any key issues, share advice and ask any questions to the whole group for advice that they were not able to receive during their own breakout group discussion for the remainder of the session. We anticipate participants coming from all three faculties and bookings are for up to 25 people.

Contact j.mclay@surrey.ac.uk if you would like to take part!