Thinking of Doing a PhD?

Curzon 3rd floor coffee pod

Join us to find out more about undertaking a PhD at the Faculty of Arts, Design & Media, BCU over coffee and cake. Whether you are simply thinking about doing a PhD or in the process of applying, this opportunity will enable you to understand what embarking on a PhD entails, details of the application process and points […]

PhD Writing Intensive

Curzon B C384 Birmingham City University 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Research shows that writing in groups makes people more productive. Are you an Arts, Design & Media PhD researcher in the mid to late stages of your PhD and working hard on your thesis? Would you like to find out how many thousands – yes, thousands! – of new words you can write in just one day? Then […]

Becoming visible as a researcher

Curzon - C260 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Being visible as a researcher is an important way to showcase your research and raise your profile. A general assumption is that using Social Media is a crucial way to do this. But what platforms work best? Where to start? What are the best ways to engage people in the Arts, Design & Media? And […]

Teaching Practice and Academic Literacy for PhDs

MP 491

The Centre for Academic Success is running an event for PhD students on teaching practice and academic literacy on Wednesday 27th March in MP 491. Feel free to attend any time between 9:30 - 14:00. Light refreshments will be available.

Brilliant Club Research Café

Curzon C315 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

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 based on their research to help them secure places at top universities. Want to find out more or are […]

Getting to Grips with NVivo

Curzon - C260 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software programme that enables researchers to collect, organise, analyse and visualise textual and audio-visual data sources. It is particularly useful for researchers dealing with in-depth levels of analysis on both small or large volumes of data and can also be used to organise and write literature reviews. This workshop will introduce NVivo to first time […]

Coffee & Chat

Curzon 3rd floor coffee pod

“There is no way I could take an hour out of my busy schedule to do something nice, for a free coffee, to have a space to chat with people from different departments at different points in their studies. I have absolutely no time to maybe learn something or maybe share my knowledge and no […]

Abstract Writing S.O.S

Curzon C315 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

You’ve seen a conference and the call for papers has finally been released but now what? How do you write an abstract that shows off your research and responds to our call for papers? Come along to this abstract writing drop-in where you will hear from researchers about how they write conference abstracts. Coinciding with […]

PhD Seminar: Tam Alfahal and Yi Liu

P131 The Parkside Building 5 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Please join us for this PhD seminar, which features papers from Tam Alfahal and Yi (Roger) Liu. The event will begin with conversation and snacks provided by the seminar organisers. Both Tam and Roger are preparing for their forthcoming viva and this seminar provides a forum in which they can present and receive some final […]

Coffee & Chat

Curzon 3rd floor coffee pod

“There is no way I could take an hour out of my busy schedule to do something nice, for a free coffee, to have a space to chat with people from different departments at different points in their studies. I have absolutely no time to maybe learn something or maybe share my knowledge and no […]

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