Who is it for?

Part-Time Research Degree Students within their final or writing up year.

What will it cover?

The Part-Time Researcher Workshop is a day long event which gives part-time research students the time and space to share and discuss issues which directly affect their research degree study. It also incorporates useful training sessions on key subjects like editing the thesis, peparing for the viva, and post-PhD Pathways.

Schedule

9.15 Arrival and registration

9.30 Welcome and Ice breaker

9.45: Skills Workshop 1: Editing and Finishing Your Thesis

Professor Ian Livingstone, University of Northampton

11.15 Refreshment break

11.30 Shut up and Write Session

13.00 Lunch

13.45 Skills Workshop 2: Preparing for the Viva.

Dr Chantal Bielmann, University of Leicester
Dr Ruth Young, University of Leicester

15.15 Refreshment break

15.30 Where to Next: post-Phd pathways.

Martin Coffey, University of Leicester.

16.30 Questions. Evaluations and Close

Further information is available from Chantal Bielmann (cb450@le.ac.uk; 0116 229 7644).

Please register here.