Doctoral College news

The latest news and updates from the postgraduate research (PGR) and early career researcher (ECR) community at the University of Surrey

Surrey Top of EPSRC Rankings

The University of Surrey is now top at EPSRC for the number of New Investigator Awards with 8 awards and an overall value of £2,084,130. Some of the highlights of these awards are: Dr Ioana Boureanu, Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, was awarded £300,000 for the Automatic Verification of Complex […]


Doctoral College Conference 2019

The 2019 Organising Committee (L to R) David Győrfi, Chelsea Dainton, Claudia Davidson (Chair), Lisa Pomford (Vice-chair), Dr Hannah Newman, Timothy Chukwu (missing – Maryam Mirhadizadeh)   The Doctoral College Conference is organised and run completely by current PGRs and ECRs and this year the committee did an incredible job sorting through over 400 abstracts to pull together a fascinating […]


PGR Spotlight: Alex Reeve

Alex has recently been longlisted for the Polari Prize, a prestigious award for LGBTQ+ literature, for his first novel and we spoke to him about his writing, research, and advice for budding novelists. What is the novel about? My debut novel, The House on Half Moon Street, is a Victorian crime story set in London […]


Introducing the Surrey Reproducibility Society

SRS was established in June 2019. It aims to encourage research students from all disciplines to participate in regular meetings to discuss open and reproducible research methods. Efforts to promote scientific transparency and rigour are made by academics at all stages in their careers. We have been inspired by the work of the UK Reproducibility […]


How to Get That Job

Marketing yourself: CV Writing Thursday 4th July  3 – 5pm  Doctoral College Training Room Is your CV up to date? Could it be strengthened? This workshop will look at different styles of CV, academic, technical and for industrial/commercial applications, for example. Share ideas about how to tailor CVs to meet employers’ expectations across difference sectors. […]


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