Postgraduate Issues

Convenor: Professor Pam Denicolo, University of Reading
Email: p.m.denicolo@reading.ac.uk
Convenor: Dr Martin Gough, University of Kent
Email: a.m.gough@kent.ac.uk
Convenor: Dr Richard Race, Roehampton University
Email: r.race@roehampton.ac.uk
Convenor:Dr Julie Reeves, University of Southampton
Email: j.d.reeves@soton.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.

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.

Downloads

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