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Submitting your thesis electronically
How to get your thesis online? This week we ran a workshop to introduce the changes to the process of submitting a doctoral thesis at UWE. From September 2013, all doctoral candidates are required to...
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The final Viva voce examination
Under the spotlight As a follow on to the workshop on writing up the thesis, I ran a session on the final examination process for the research degree at UWE. What I try to do with these sessions is...
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Digital Researcher #druwe December 2013
This week I ran a workshop at UWE on the use of social media in the context of research. This follows on from a similar workshop that I ran in February 2012 for researchers and a workshop at the Vitae...
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400...
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The creative researcher
Having a light bulb moment? This week at UWE we welcomed Dave Jarman, the Head of Enterprise Education at the University of Bristol to facilitate a session on creativity in research. Here’s some...
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How to write an internationally excellent paper
Research journals on a shelf In December the UWE Researchers’ Forum tackled a topic at the heart of a successful academic research career, that of how to write papers that are considered to be...
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Researcher Development at UWE, Bristol
The outdoor classroom in the Brecon Beacons The UWE Graduate School are currently advertising a vacancy for a Researcher Development Manager with a closing date of Monday 17th February 2014; this blog...
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Hello from Dr Helen Frisby
Introducing… Hello everyone, My name is Dr Helen Frisby, and I’m absolutely delighted to have been appointed to look after Paul’s Researcher Development Manager role for the next few months whilst he...
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The Effective Researcher: the middle years
Yesterday we ran our “The effective researcher – the middle years” workshop. This is aimed at PGRs who, having expended considerable time and energy passing Progression, are now experiencing the...
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Future Directions
What do you want to be when you grow up? How many of us honestly started out in life intending to do a doctorate? Like many of us, I have to admit that I kind of ended up doing mine because a) somebody...
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Welcome!
We’ve recently welcomed our latest group of new postgraduate researchers: this happens three times a year (October, January and April) and the aim of the Welcome Event is to provide a space for our...
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Project Management in a Nutshell
PM in a nutshell It’s a nutshell Recently we ran our regular half-day workshop for researchers on “Project Management in a Nutshell”. The purpose of this workshop is to de-mystify some of the jargon...
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Personal Development Planning for researchers
Do you PDP…? There was a time – not all that long ago – when an academic research career was often something that kind of happened: you did okay at your Bachelors degree, a bit better at your...
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Something happened to me yesterday…
…that I’d like to share with you, because it illustrates the importance of having your ‘research story’ prepared and ready to go at the drop of a hat. Out of the blue, I was contacted yesterday...
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Summer Sessions 2014
Last week was Summer Sessions 2014 – a four-day long festival of all the fantastic work being done by UWE PGRs, their supervisors and all the other folks who support them in various ways. Monday saw...
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Getting to grips with your research career
Getting to grips with career Recently we held our twice-yearly UWE research staff development event, this time on the theme of “getting to grips with your research career.” As the title suggests the...
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Goodbye from Helen – and welcome back Paul!
Adieu As today is officially the last day of my secondment to the UWE Researcher Development Manager role, I just wanted to say goodbye and to thank everyone – not least Paul – for all your help,...
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First Steps to Small Group Teaching
Today I ran a session for researchers entitled “First Steps to Small Group Teaching”. This is a workshop that hopes to serve as an introduction to the role of teaching assistant/demonstrator/seminar...
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Welcoming new doctoral students #uwegradschool
This week the UWE Graduate School put on a welcome event for new doctoral students. The turnout was really good and it was great to see so many enthusiastic and excited doctoral students (or “PhDers”...
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Organising and searching the literatures
What a lot of books! This week the Graduate School hosted a workshop on “organising and searching the literatures” for new doctoral students. In the past few years I have included this topic, albeit...
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