Doctoral College news

Guest post – Catherine Batson, Content and Faculty Librarian Manager, Library and Learning Services, University of Surrey Library and Learning Services have been working to improve the discoverability of journal articles via our subscriptions and to open access articles and we’d like to let you know of a new feature you can use for free. […]

Guest post – Phil Powrie, Professor of Cinema Studies and former Chief General Editor of Studies in French Cinema. He was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences 2010-2015. “Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.” — attrib. William Faulkner When I started out […]

For AcWriMo, we invite you into a little competition and some unexpected perspectives: can you transform your doctoral thesis, journal article or research project into a poem? We even have some prizes for the winners! This can be a fun exercise, and a break from the hard work of theory, experiments, or analysis. You might […]

Guest post – Dr Laura Barnett, Lecturer in Higher Education, Surrey Institute of Education The most important point that I’d like to make from the outset about academic writing is that it is a very individual and personal experience. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way of going about writing, it’s about finding approaches that […]