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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.
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Widening Participation to research degrees |
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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 |
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Venue - SRHE 44 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4LL |
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Date - Tuesday, 21/09/2010, 1pm – 4.30pm |
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Network - Postgraduate Issues & Access and Widening Participation Networks |
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Attend - To attend this event please download details and book as appropriate |
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NEW - SRHE Postgraduate Guides - second series
 The 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.
Archive
1 July 2010
Enhancing Induction of Postgraduate Research Students |
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Induction has historically often been conceived of primarily in terms of informing students about the nature of the institution they have recently joined, principally its history, geography, structures, policies, procedures and regulations. While this remains an important purpose, it can be argued that, in an evolving mass graduate education system where students come from very diverse backgrounds and may have very limited previous experience of research itself or of working within a research environment, induction should have a wider range of functions. It is this perspective which informs the new SRHE series Guide to Induction of Postgraduate Research Students which was launched at this event. The seminar consisted of a mixture of short presentations, individual and group activities, that looked at four key questions:
- What should be the key purposes of induction in the 21st century?
- What should induction programmes cover in terms of generic content?
- How should induction cater for the needs of an increasingly diverse student body?
- How should induction be evaluated?
Presented by: Drs Elena Martin, Lowry McComb (from the Graduate School Training Team) and Dr Stan Taylor (of the Academic Staff Development Office of Durham University).
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Induction for Postgraduate Research Students |
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Handout 1: The context; change and complexity in doctoral education in the 21st century |
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Handout 2 - the ‘Speed PhD’ |
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Handout 3 - Diversity Case Studies |
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