Academic career stories at University of Edinburgh The Careers Service and the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) have developed a new resource to showcase the academic career journey from PhD student to group leader or head of institute. You’ll find it useful if you’re interested in developing an academic career …
We are running a structured Writing Retreat for PhD students on Wednesday 1st June 2016. Description: Come to a writing retreat if you want to make progress on a writing project (such as a thesis chapter or a journal article) and build confidence in your academic writing skills. At this …
Work Experience in Europe: Are you keen to gain work experience in an academic setting? Would you like to do something worthwhile with your summer and develop skills while exploring somewhere new? If so, consider applying for a funded Erasmus+ Traineeship somewhere in Europe. This programme provides grants to eligible …
We are running the following new workshop: An Introduction to Academic Publishing: From Writing to Ranking 2/6/16 In this workshop, Publishers from Elsevier will host a session covering: best practice on how to get write scholarly articles; how to identify the right journal for your paper and common pitfalls to …
You know you need to start (or continue) to write – so what is stopping you? Writer’s block can occur at any stage in the process of writing a PhD, and typically not only affects planning but well-being and motivation as well. We are running a workshop ‘Beating Writer’s Block’ to look …
Are you struggling to find the time to write without interruption? We run Just Write sessions for research students providing a time and place to write without the distractions of emails, Facebook, Twitter and everyday life. ‘Just Write’ will provide you with a quiet space to focus exclusively on your writing, …
We are running a new workshop on the 22nd March 2016 – Creating Effective Collaboration Collaboration is a skillset with great benefits for postgraduate researchers, both in researching for their PhD and beyond. This highly interactive workshop is an opportunity for participants to reflect on their strengths, determine what they want …
Guest blog post from Alli Coyle, PhD student and Administrative Officer. When Louise, IAD Doctoral Training Manager, asked if I would guest write a few blog posts for the iad4phd WordPress I admittedly went to the one place I have written about my PhD experiences Alli Coyle from Scotland to …
Guest Blog Post from Iain Davidson: Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Consultant www.iaindavidson.com Why should you show your research work in three minutes to a live audience of complete strangers? Are you crazy? Why should you even attend a training course? All that unfinished research, all those half written papers, …
This semester we have two international guest speakers delivering workshops for the IAD PhD programme: Seven Secrets of a Highly Successful Research Student 4/3/16 Hugh Kearns, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia What do research higher degree (RHD) students do to finish on time, to overcome isolation, doubt and writer’s block, and …
