EDUC50060 PhD Roundtable

Academic Year 2017/2018

The PhD Roundtable Module responds to a demand for regular skills development for PhD researchers working in education and cognate areas.
The aim of the module is to bring a cohort of PhD researchers together, to develop their research and writing skills and to foster collaborative work and critical thinking. Students will learn some of the standard criteria used in evaluating academic work, and will apply these criteria to their own work and that of others. This is particularly helpful to students, as they learn the characteristics of 'good reserach', and learn to present and defend their work. It is also beneficial to students who are preparing for their PhD viva.

Members of the Roundtable meet once per month, for three hours, in Semester Two (Jan/Feb/Mar/April). The first Roundtable will take place on Saturday 16th January, at 10 am in the School of Education. The dates of subsequent Roundtables will be circulated at that session.

Each meeting has an over-arching theme (see below) and these are discussed and developed over one hour. Two hours are given to working on research-in-progress, and students are given the opportunity to discuss their work, present draft writing (conference papers, draft chapter sections) and critique work in an atmosphere characterised by mutual respect, co-operation and enthusiasm.
The four PhD Roundtable themes for 2015-2016 are:
Submitting proposals/abstracts for conferences
Writing conference papers / reviewing abstracts
Publishing conference papers
Writing grant proposals