Whether you are on the verge of your viva or want to know more about what it entails, this workshop is for you! This Viva Survival workshop aims to equip you with useful strategies to help you prepare for your viva, get through the big day itself and provide relevant information to demystify the viva […]
Establishing your research profile and promoting yourself as a researcher through social media and online, is becoming increasingly important in making you and your research visible in the public domain. This workshop will explore the pathways, benefits and challenges of promoting yourself as a researcher and will include short talks from researchers about the methods […]
Coinciding with the release of new postdoc fellowships made available by the faculty, you are invited to explore the 'don'ts' and 'dos' of application writing to support your own case for support. This session performs a role reversal. It places you, the applicant, as a member of the selection committee for a postdoc opportunity. You […]
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. Hear from Joe Loudon, Regional Director of The Brilliant Club about what […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Screen cultures – Horror and hardcore Dr Oliver Carter (BCU) | Hardcore Guaranteed: Making Pornography in 1960s Britain This paper draws on research conducted for the opening chapter of a future monograph on British hardcore pornographic filmmaking and the forthcoming documentary Hardcore Guaranteed: The Mike Freeman Story. It explores the emergence of […]
You’ve seen an exciting 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 the call for papers? Come along to this abstract writing workshop where you will receive tips from seasoned conference pros over drinks and refreshments, […]
Whether you are on the verge of your viva or want to know more about what it entails, this workshop is for you! This Viva Survival workshop aims to equip you with useful strategies to help you prepare for your viva, get through the big day itself and provide relevant information to demystify the viva […]
We are delighted to announce the second annual PGR Studio conference: Research Matter(s): Conversations about research in Arts, Design and Media 8th July 2016 Faculty of Arts, Design & Media Birmingham City University In the formal boxing up of ‘finished’ forms, the matter produced through research is commonly regarded as peripheral. Through articulating Researcher […]