Edinburgh Local Gradschool 2019 – Tuesday 4th June – Friday 7th June 2019 GRADschool is an experiential 3.5 day non-residential learning course, designed for doctoral researchers in the last 18 months of their PhD, aiming to raise participants’ awareness of their personal and professional transferable skills. The course uses small …
Will you be attending a conference or seminar to deliver a poster or presentation this semester? If so we have a number of workshops to help you develop your presentation skills, these include: Presenting Made Easy – Presentation Techniques Presenting Made Easy – Delivering Presentations ‘Just Present’ Presentation Peer Practice Session …
Prepare for Doctoral Success is a 4-week, interactive online course for all new doctoral researchers at the University of Edinburgh. Starting a doctorate is a very exciting time, but it can also be difficult to know where to start. We hope this online course will help you settle in to your …
PGR Mid Semester Welcome Event – Wednesday 6th February 2019. Postgraduate research students arriving after Welcome Week still have the opportunity to attend University welcome events. These welcome sessions are aimed at any new postgraduate research student who was not able to attend the September or January Welcome Week. You …
Happy New Year and a prosperous 2019 from the IAD! As a new year starts we continue to provide a range of resources and workshops for Postgraduate Researchers. Take a look at some of the things we are offering this year: Writing Workshops: We offer a range of writing workshops including …
Dialogue: Public Engagement Beyond Public Lectures workshop 29th and 30th January 2019. All researchers are expected to do public engagement – to interact with stakeholder groups and/or wider ‘publics’ in order to increase the impact of their research. Public engagement takes different forms in different disciplines, but in all cases …
Guest Blog Post from Owen Gwydion James, winner of the UK 3 Minute Thesis Competition. Uber driver: You said you’re doing a PhD? What are you working on? Me: …what’s our ETA? Uber driver: 3 minutes. Me: Well pal, strap in. It might seem like an odd place to begin, but …
Is your viva approaching? Viva Survivor is a session for postgraduate researchers close to submission who want to gain insight on how to be well prepared for their viva. The viva is the culmination of the PhD process: a lot of work has led to this point, but a feeling …
The IAD offer a range of workshops to support the development of core public engagement skills, these include: An Introduction to Public Engagement with Research Communications Toolkit for a Public Audience Facilitation Skills for Public Engagement How to Design a Public Engagement Process Research, Researchers and Media – A Hands …
Are you thinking of entering the 3 Minute Thesis competition and want to find out more? The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an international competition celebrating the exciting research conducted by PhD students. Developed by the University of Queensland in 2008, the competition requires contestants to condense their research into …
