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 […]
A brilliant chair can make all the difference in making a conference, symposium or roundtable truly brilliant—for speakers as well as participants. It is also a crucial skill that you can use in teaching and even your supervision meetings! You've most probably experienced the dark side of chairing: that chair who shoehorns their research into […]
The Progression Assessment Panel (sometimes abbreviated to PAP) arrives at the end of the first year for all doctoral researchers. But what needs to be prepared? How long is it? Is it the same for everyone? Does it carry a notion of success or failure for the Ph.D.? This informal workshop will explore all this […]
The Midlands4Cities (M4C) Festival Planning Team are proud to announce this year's Online Research Festival! Across the week (7th-10th June 2021) M4C PhD researchers will be sharing their work through Research Relays (short presentations), Creative Showcases, and Digital Posters.The Festival is held via Microsoft Teams. All attendees will receive links to each session once they […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]