Reblogged: A special issue of RUSTLE (Really Usefull Stuff on Teaching, Learning Etc) puts the focus on Doctoral Supervision. RUSTLE is published by the Teaching and Learning Development Unit at Sussex. Check out the blog and the posts… Continue reading
From the Doctoral School inbox: Netskills is running a free online seminar series, with David White, University of Oxford and Alan Cann, University of Leicester as the first confirmed speakers. Delivered entirely online, these seminars offer a convenient way to hear exceptional speakers exploring interesting and relevant topics concerning technology and education today. Tue 21 … Continue reading
Last week, the Sussex Research Hive’s scholars ran a drop-in discussion group on the topic of ‘Thesis writing: Sharing experiences, challenges and top tips’. The event was full to capacity, and the scholars have posted the discussion on the Research Hive blog. The writing discussion proved popular and a waiting list resulted, so a second … Continue reading
Do you work with students? The Business and Enterprise team are hosting a hands-on workshop, with colleagues from across the University of Sussex; to learn from each other and develop creative solutions around the topic “Enhancing the Student Experience“. The workshop will take place on Wednesday 29 June 2011 in The Freeman Centre (Room G24/G25). … Continue reading
Last week, the Doctoral School gave Sussex doctoral researchers automatic access to the Turnitin for Doctoral Researchers Study Direct site (just use your ITS username and password to log in). I had a brief play with Turnitin over the weekend, and here I mull over some of the issues raised. What Turnitin does When you … Continue reading
Guest contributer Sophie Bisset, doctoral researcher in History at Sussex, writes about her experience participating in the Researchers In Residence scheme. The R in R scheme is open to all doctoral researchers in receipt of research council funding. Researchers in Residence, or Taking Your Research and Making It Interesting to a Bunch of School Students … Continue reading
Tell The World About It! Media Skills Training Thurs 17th March 2011, 9.15am-5.15pm TLDU Researcher are organising to repeat the successful Media Skills Training for Researchers on Thursday 17th March. To date this workshop has taken place three times at Sussex, receiving excellent feedback: “ I liked the way the trainers actually researched everyone’s topic … Continue reading
Slides and audio recordings from the Hugh Kearns workshops are now available on the study direct site ‘E-learning for Researchers’. These include: ‘Defeating Self Sabotage’ (19th Jan) ‘Turbocharge Your Writing’ (20th Jan) ‘Creating the 7 secrets of highly successful research students (for supervisors)’ (20th Jan) All researchers should have access to this site at: https://studydirect.sussex.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=8568> … Continue reading
Wednesday 19th January – 14:00 – 17:00 International Speaker Hugh Kearns (Flinders University, Australia) will facilitate this workshop, helping doctoral researchers and research staff to understand self sabotaging behaviours. If you think you procrastinate, are a perfectionist, are disorganised or always ‘busy’, this workshop will help you to understand why your thesis or research isn’t … Continue reading
Learning, Media and Technology: a doctoral research conference London, 4th July 2011 We are inviting paper submissions for the first ‘Learning, Media and Technology Doctoral Research Conference’ to be held on Monday 4th July 2011 in London. The one-day conference will be hosted by the London Knowledge Lab in conjunction with the Taylor & Francis … Continue reading
