Staff Resources
Useful Documents
All relevant documents are held centrally in the Graduate School Document Library. Click here or on the link to the right hand side to be redirected there.
Useful Links
- New Forms of Doctorate - an ESRC seminar series led by the Institute of Education to investigate the influence of multimodality and e-learning on the nature and format of doctoral theses in Education and the social sciences, starting in December 2008 and running until summer 2010.
The main aims of the seminar series are to:
- explore the intellectual and practical opportunities, problems and risks concerning the rise in digital and multimodal research presentation – particularly that of the PhD thesis
- provide a forum for the exchange of practice in this area
- inform thinking, including that on regulations and guidance, regarding new formats for the PhD in Education and the social sciences
- provide better commerce between the creation of knowledge in the field and its dissemination to users.
For more information, visit http://www.newdoctorates.blogspot.com/
- Premia - a website devoted to making the research environement more accessible to disabled students,
incorporating a range of awareness and development materials for research supervisors, managers, administrators, examiners, research and generic skills trainers, disabled students and graduates, staff developers, non-disabled researchers, careers advisers and others.