The Doctoral College Mindful Researcher course aims to promote the well-being of postgraduate researchers through tailored mindfulness meditation training. This 8-week course is based on the gold-standard Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programme and has been adapted to the specific needs of postgraduate researchers. The course will be held via Zoom for eight consecutive Tuesdays from 3.30-5.00pm, starting 15 February 2022. It […]
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Workshop dates Weds 9 Feb (14:30 – 16:00) and Thurs 24 Feb (14:30 – 16:00) and Thurs 3 Mar (09:30 – 11:00). All three workshops will be online. The Academic Skills and Development team are looking for PGR volunteers who would be willing to facilitate a peer to peer discussion based on questions/issues that the […]
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New Year…is it time for a career review? The precarious nature of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) careers and demanding work schedules can make career planning a challenge. To support you as you navigate your way through this complex and uncertain environment, we are running a Career Management Programme specifically for ECRs at Surrey offering the […]
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The Doctoral College is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Building Research & Innovation Culture Competition (BRICC) for 2022. Proposals are welcomed from postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and early career researchers (ECRs) at any level. We encourage collaborative projects where both PGRs and ECRs work together, but this is not essential. You […]
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This blog is part of ‘corrections and completion season’, so we are thinking particularly about those who have recently viva’d, or will be submitting their thesis in the next couple of months. First of all, congratulations! This is a huge achievement. Depending on how you are feeling – relieved to have progressed this far or […]
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‘Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends’. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It feels like AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month) happened ages ago, even though it was only in November. This year, for the first time, we ran a very special competition as part of […]
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