The PGR Studio

The PGR Studio's Researcher Development Awards provide support and funding for you to organise and facilitate development initiatives that benefit doctoral researchers across ADM (or within smaller research areas) and enhance the ADM doctoral environment and community.   These could take the form of workshops, events, training, social activities, or anything else. Applications that are […]

PhD students are required to undertake annual reviews after their first year of study to progress with their PhD. However, what exactly is an annual review? What does it entail? How can you prepare? And is it really as daunting as it sounds?!   This workshop includes thoughts from one of our Research Degree Coordinators […]

Whether you want to find out more about what a PhD entails or you’re already in the process of applying, this workshop provides more information about undertaking a PhD at the Faculty of Arts, Design & Media at BCU. It is aimed specifically at current or completed MA students, but all welcome! Hear from current PhD students at […]

This session aims to get you on the road towards disseminating your work guided by researchers who have done just that! We will explore how small first steps are important to getting 'on board', such as publishing a blog and submitting articles to journals. We will also explore how to identify gaps in the market […]

Completing an ethical review early on in your PhD is just the first step. Plans change, methodologies can take new directions, participants vary, and situations can be hard to predict. How do you continue to negotiate ethics along the way? This workshop will include talks from staff who have developed, and who preside over, ethical […]

In this discussion-based workshop, you will have the chance to focus on the form of the thesis -- exploring traditional and non-traditional types of presentation; consider the reception of non-traditional forms (in supervision or examination); and what might work best for your research.

We are pleased to offer this workshop aimed at guiding you through the final stages of a PhD. This workshop is intended for PGRs that expect to submit their thesis within the next 12 months. Led by Professor John Mercer and Drs. Jacqueline Taylor, Oliver Carter, and Sian Vaughan, it will focus particularly on the […]