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Postgraduate Issues Network

Convenors:
Pam Denicolo
Email: p.m.denicolo@rdg.ac.uk
Martin Gough
Email: A.M.Gough@kent.ac.uk
Richard Race
Email: R.Race@roehampton.ac.uk

The Postgraduate Issues Network was set up in January 1995 to help its members find out about new developments in the field of postgraduate education and to interpret these for their own use and benefit. In particular the network is concerned with: financial issues, quality issues, issues of good practice, issues specific to and independent of discipline and issues relating to employment. The network has more than a hundred members, including a number in the USA, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong, and it continues to grow.

The network offers its members much more than a series of meetings: it aims to be a true network of mutual support. It does this by:
  • providing speakers at meetings to focus on a topic of general or topical interest
  • ensuring that there is the opportunity for members to raise their own issues to discuss in or after meetings
  • circulating material from members between meetings, and
  • stimulating informal support and collaboration outside meetings.

Forthcoming Event:
Widening Participation to research degrees
Speakers
Paul Wakeling,( Lecturer in Education, University of York)
Professor Liz Thomas (Edge Hill/Higher Education Academy)

Access to research degrees is a neglected topic in higher education research and policy. 'One Step Beyond', the recent review of postgraduate education for BIS, raises the possibility that inequalities addressed at undergraduate level will reappear among postgraduates and calls for an investigation of access to postgraduate study. Research degrees are the source of higher education's future labour force, but questions of access to doctoral study have been little debated.

This joint seminar between SRHE's Postgraduate and Access and Widening Participation Networks will include a presentation of the recommendations of a recent research synthesis of the subject commissioned by ESRC. It will provide an opportunity to discuss an agenda for future research on widening participation to postgraduate study in general and doctoral research in particular.

This event is partly funded by RCUK
   
Venue - SRHE 44 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4LL
Date - Tuesday, 21/09/2010, 1pm – 4.30pm
Network - Postgraduate Issues & Access and Widening Participation Networks
Attend - To attend this event please download details and book as appropriate
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NEW - SRHE Postgraduate Guides - second series

Postgraduate GuidesThe SRHE Postgraduate Guides have proven a very popular series and meet a growing demand for advice and guidance on the practical issues involved in the management, teaching and supervision of postgraduates who come from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds often with widely different needs.

This new series of the Postgraduate Guides contains a number of new titles as well as some revisions of the most popular guides from the first series. As with the first series the aim has been to produce clear practical guides, devoid of jargon, intended as a useful set of tools that will help deliver and support the delivery of high quality postgraduate training.

The guides are developed by the SRHE Postgraduate Issues Network. The executive team responsible for conceiving and directing this new series is led by Pam Denicolo and comprises: Alistair McCulloch, Martin Gough and Helen Perkins, Director of SRHE.

Bullet Issues in Postgraduate Education - Information
Adobe PDF Issues in Postgraduate Education – Series 2 Order Form


Archive

PDF Document Induction for Postgraduate Research Students
PDF Document Handout 1: The context; change and complexity in doctoral education in the 21st century
PDF Document Handout 2 - the ‘Speed PhD’
PDF Document Handout 3 - Diversity Case Studies


Downloads
PDF Document 30 April 2009 – Collaborative Work on Academic Practice
PDF Document Research Training, Researcher Development and Assessment, Dr Robin Humphrey – Newcastle University
PDF Document Evaluating Researcher Training and Development: History, challenges, methodology and implementation, Dr Tony Bromley, University of Leeds
PDF Document SRHE Postgraduate Issues Network Seminars 2004 to 2006: a review
Word Document Defining the Doctorate: Wednesday 20 June 2007
Powerpoint Document Governance and Research Ethics: DR JOHN GIBBINS
Powerpoint Document Applying to an NHS Research Ethics Committee: Dr Althea Allison
Powerpoint Document New approaches to Postgraduate Supervision and Supervisor Development – Dr Anne Lee, University of Surrey (23 June 2008) - 3.2 MB download
Powerpoint Document Power and the part-time research student experience, Alistair McCulloch, June 23rd 2008



 
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