Ensuring a good PhD completion rate
Your REF return will record those candidates who have actually been awarded a doctorate by July 31st 2013.
In this one-day workshop we will examine the causes of delays in doctoral completions and identify the procedures necessary to address them.
By the end of the day we will have developed a strategy for maximizing the number of your current students submitting and being awarded their doctorates in time to be included in your submission for the REF2014.
15th March
Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ
John Wakeford
Fiona Denney, King’s College London
£295+vat
details and booking forms
www.missendencentre.co.uk/s2
Effective supervision
A two-day residential seminar designed for both PhD supervisors and those responsible for training them to examine the key features of good supervision.
We will use a selection of narratives provided by supervisors and candidates to identify the key features of a good supervisory relationship and where things can go awry.
Students, now accustomed to being treated as ‘customers’, are increasingly pursuing complaints and appeals where universities do not meet their expectations – time consuming and costly for institutions
and very bad for the institution’s record and image.
We will examine examples and how institutions can ensure such situations can be avoided.
All materials provided can be reproduced and used on in-house programmes
26/27 April
John Wakeford
£490+vat
details and booking forms
www.missendencentre.co.uk/s3
Bidding for research funding: pathways to success
23/24 May and 24/25 May
Separate overlapping sessions:
23/24 May for academics and
24/25 May for research support staff
With Sarah Andrew,
Dean of Applied and Health Sciences, University of Chester;
Robert Crawshaw, Faculty
of Arts and Social Science, Lancaster University
John Palfreyman,
formerly Head of Contemporary Sciences, University of Abertay
£490+vat
REF ready? Critical mass? Impact? Quality and profile?
21/22 June
John Rogers, Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Stirling
Latest news. Advice on strategies. Bring along your questions.
£490+vat
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Individual follow up, confidential advice and consultancy on applications also available.
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