This Shut Up & Write aims to foster a supportive, focussed, and informal space for you to engage in a piece of writing for your PhD. You could also use the space for a focussed period of editing, reading or something similar away from any distractions. These productive periods will be interspersed with short breaks to […]
Wednesday 5 May: 17:00-18:30 HoPIN webinar: Photography To book your free place nearer to the time, please click here. Dr Anthony Hamber (Independent Scholar), The rise of photographic illustration 1839-80 Soon after the announcements in 1839 of the photographic processes of Daguerre and Fox Talbot, the application of the revolutionary medium to illustration of printed […]
Run in conjunction with IT specialists, this practical workshop focuses on using Word for thesis creation You will be introduced to some advanced Word tools such as automatic table of contents and figures generation, pagination, inserting images, figures and captions, footnotes, bookmarks and hyperlinks and more to create a professional finish to your thesis.In doing so, you will […]
The School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, will host online on the 20th of May 2021 the roundtable event "Let's talk: Art Museums and Contemporary Collecting Practices". The aim of this event is to contribute to the discussion about contemporary collecting practices in public art museums by taking the format of an open conversation with […]
Our Shut Up & Write sessions aim to foster a supportive, focussed, and informal space for you to engage in a piece of writing for your PhD. You could also use the space for a period of editing, reading or something similar away from any distractions. These productive periods will be interspersed with short breaks to […]
Thinking, researching, and being online We are pleased to invite you to the first in a series of workshops on ‘thinking, researching, and being online.’ The past year has brought about changes we could hardly have predicted. With archives closed and research participants accessible only via video calls, much of the research in the humanities […]
The University of Leicester, the University of Warwick, and Nottingham Trent University will be hosting this free one-day workshop for PhD researchers to offer a space for discussion of oral history tools and techniques, as well as the broader theoretical concepts behind the creation of oral history sources. The workshop is designed to help PGR students navigate the unique […]
Over the course of your PhD you will consult a huge amount of sources, which will mean you will also amass a huge amount of references! You will also need to cite these at various points in your thesis or in publishing (or disseminating) your research. EndNote is a useful online referencing tool that can be used to manage […]
The Brilliant Club offers a unique paid opportunity for current and completed PhD researchers. Tutors deliver programmes of university-style teaching based on their research to small groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve disadvantaged communities to help them secure places at top universities. Want to find out more or are already a Brilliant Club […]
Whether you are on the verge of your viva or want to know more about what it entails, this workshop is for you! This final Master Your Viva workshop of the year aims to equip you with useful strategies to help you prepare for your viva, master the big day itself and provide relevant information […]