The audio recording and slides from the Writing Your Reflective Account webinar with Professor Stan Taylor.
The Wellbeing Thesis is a national, open-access web-resource, taking a prevention and early intervention approach and aims to support postgraduate research student mental wellbeing.
Q&A between Professor Helen Gleeson of the University of Leeds, winner of the THE’s Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year 2018, and Prof Doug Cleaver of Sheffield Hallam University the UKCGE. Exploring the role of the research supervisor and what constitutes outstanding practice.
Q&A between Dr Matthew Inglis, winner of the THE’s Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year 2017, and Dr Stan Taylor of the UKCGE’s Research Supervisors Network.
This recording of the presentation given by Professor Alys Young on Exemplary Practice in Research Supervision is from the inaugural meeting of the Research Supervisors Network group.
By Dr Dely Elliot & Dr Kara Makara, University of Glasgow In the past few years, we have been involved in teams undertaking research into the experiences of international students studying for doctorates in the UK (see for example Elliot, Reid and Baumfield 2016a and b, Elliot, Baumfield and Reid 2016, Elliot, Baumfield, Reid and … Read more
By Elly S Grossman, Walter Sisulu University and Nigel J Crowther, NHLS/University of the Witwatersrand Despite the crucial need for creating the next generation of supervisory expertise, there are few texts available on optimally mentoring the novice supervisor to develop such proficiencies. To address this issue we organised discussions at our Supervisor Support Group to … Read more
By Professor Doug Cleaver and Dr Nicola Palmer, Doctoral School, Sheffield Hallam University Stan Taylor’s blog on Rewarding Excellence in Research Supervision[i], together with the instigation of pan-institutional schemes such as the THE/UKCGE Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year award[ii], indicates that there is an assumption that excellence in doctoral supervision can be measured and benchmarked sector-wide. Having operated … Read more
By Dr. Douglas Halliday, Durham University Doctoral study has historically been organised and structured around fairly rigid disciplinary structures and paradigms3 9. Many doctoral supervisors and candidates hold the view that doctoral researchers must be firmly embedded in their discipline to acquire all the skills and attributes exhibited by well-established and credible experts in their discipline. … Read more
By Dr Richard Hinchcliffe, Freelance Researcher Developer The employability of research students is an increasingly important issue in the developed world as more PhDs graduate than can be employed in academic research – there are simply not enough jobs. Indeed the over-supply in some subject areas may be as high as twenty to one. Supervisors … Read more