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Young doctors launch campaign against PG induction…
The Young Doctors Federation has launched a strong campaign against the current postgraduate (PG) medical induction testing system, calling for an end to what it describes as unnecessary and repetitive examinations for doctors seeking admission to postgraduate…
https://justpaste.in/news/young-doctors-launch-campaign-against-pg-induction-test/
We’re hosting a postgraduate research careers event today, organised by the White Rose Consortium, should be really useful for PhD students/doctoral candidates in the Yorkshire region:
https://whiterose.ac.uk/what-we-do/who-do-we-support/phd-careers-fair/
#phd #careers #postgraduate #research #DoctoralResearchers #pgr #PostgraduateResearch
Geriatric #Medicine Competencies in #Postgraduate Training Programs Across Specialties
Identifying gaps in postgraduate training to strengthen geriatric competencies and improve #care for #aging populations
#Geriatrics #Geriatrician #Frailty
https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.70652
So delighted to see this issue of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education come out, and with it our article on effective supervisory systems for coping with COVID-19 restrictions in postgraduate research/doctoral studies.
https://www.emerald.com/sgpe/issue/17/3
#COVID #postgraduate #research #PostgraduateResearch #highereducation #supervision #Bronfenbrenner #resilience #sgpe #graduatestudies #graduateschool
https://www.europesays.com/at/275338/ Uni Graz-Weiterbildungstochter Uni for Life feiert den 20er #AT #Austria #Graz #Österreich #Postgraduate #UniGraz
"For most postgraduate students, a written thesis is a requirement for completing their studies. But in China, a law passed in 2024 is allowing some people to graduate with a practical achievement, such as an innovative product, technique or project, instead of following the conventional PhD route."
RE: https://fediscience.org/@alexh/116518145538497476
This was really interesting 👏
Some slides from the event have been posted here:
https://zenodo.org/communities/muecos/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
And some of the resources and topics that came up 👇
The #ECR reviewer's platform aims to empower junior reviewers and equip #ECRs with the necessary skills to conduct methodologically rigorous reviews
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
#PostGraduate #PGR
#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
RE: https://fediscience.org/@satrevik/116612366859411834
Really interesting question.
I brought something similar last month to our #Postgraduate group with this paper as an example:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2026.2633517
This led to a good discussion about #AcademicCronyism. Whatever one thinks about the items in the poll, the paper offers some shades of grey regarding such actions.
#PublicationEthics #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEthics #COPE
#JAWAHARLAL #INSTITUTE OF #POSTGRADUATE #MEDICAL #EDUCATION #AND #RESEARCH
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Now the rush of term-end is behind me, I can afford time to document some of the projects I’ve been up to between my Academy studies.
FLUIDITY is an experimental short film improvised one weekend in February 2026 with the Academy of Live Technology’s Postgraduate cohort, at the behest of visiting Multimedia Artist-Engineer Diana Scarborough. A Cambridge-based creative whose work blends science, art, and ecology, her Sounds of Space project is an inspirational extension of concepts I’ve used in my own work.
The film presents a meditation on water, flowing around a spoken word performance by student Dami Olagbegi. Soundscape and Foley were recorded by contact mics and hydrophone, capturing the sound of underwater instruments, percussion, and melting ice. Suitably swirly visuals were then evoked by filming a tray of water through an old-style desk projector while adding different colour pigments with a pipette.
My part was to blend these elements together, along with separately supplied stock footage and a little alchemical flavour. Layering down a simple synth soundtrack to mix the recordings into form, and editing the video against an unyielding deadline.
Using GarageBand and DaVinci Resolve on iPad to record and edit, and shooting the projections with a SmallRig-ged iPhone, the tools to hand ensured swift turnaround from idea to image. Although I could have used some extra time to polish things properly on home hardware, I’m happy with the raw honesty of the result.
It was a great pleasure to be invited to work alongside the Postgrad students, to get a feel of what awaits my own Masters journey, and to play without expectation for the joy of creating art.
Diana Scarborough: dianascarborough.co.uk
Sounds of Space: soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com
New Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme Piloted in Orkney
New Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme Piloted in Orkney
Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/contemporary-literature-and-culture/
We also offer an MA in Creative Writing.
#MA #Masters #postgraduate #publishing #culture #English #lboro
Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/contemporary-literature-and-culture/
We also offer an MA in Creative Writing.
#MA #Masters #postgraduate #publishing #culture #English #lboro
Start of our 2nd Semester PGR Info Fair showcasing all the different services available to our doctoral candidates/postgraduate researchers.
#postgraduate #DoctoralCollege #GraduateSchool #phd #PostgraduateResearch #researcherdevelopment
If you are still looking for a last minute stocking filler for those researchers and students in your life, today is the last day where you can pick up the kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student for only 99p. #lessthanacupofcoffee
#research #researchers #PhD #postgraduate #student #healthcarescience
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757
🎓 Applications are now open for the MA in International Political Sociology at Queen Mary University of London.
This programme pioneers a problem-driven approach to world politics that transcends established disciplinary boundaries.
Learn more 👉 https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/coursefinder/courses/internationalpolitical-sociology-ma/
#DoingIPS #Postgraduate
I recorded a welcome message for our new doctoral candidates last week. I said something about challenges to rigour and expertise and how they were the future…. I think I might have been pulling my punches somewhat…
#academia #academicchatter #graduatestudents #postgraduate #phd #science #ideology #vaccines #climatechange #autism
Early career researcher at #BSPS2025? Don't miss CPC-CG member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews who will be hosting a session on career development later today:
🕛12:00-13:00
📍Great Hall 014
Packed lunches provided
Find out more about Jo's work: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/about_us/the_team/1607/Jo_Hale
#population #demography #careerdevelopment #geography #socialsciences #earlycareerresearcher #ECR #postgraduate
#CallforApplications 📣 The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜 1/3
📢 Applications open for Digital Art History – Online (2025/26 entry) at the University of St Andrews.
First UK Masters in Digital Art History, taught jointly by Art History & Computer Science. Fully online, flexible, interdisciplinary.
🗓️ Apply by 1 Sept 2025 (for Sept entry)
🎓 MLitt, PGDip, PGCert options
💡 St Leonards Scholarships available
#DigitalArtHistory #DigitalHumanities #Museums #CulturalHeritage #Postgraduate
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/art-history/digital-art-history-online/
With a new #AcademicYear starting a pointer to a great resource aimed at #postgraduate research students, but likely useful for others as well:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/projects/wellbeing-postgraduate-researcher-narratives
This #comic shares stories of postgraduate researchers to highlight how, where, and when to ask for support.
#AcademicChatter #DundeeUni #PGRSupport
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The Week Ahead
Another weekend is almost over so, after spending most of this afternoon in the garden, I’ve retreated indoors to look at my calendar for the forthcoming week. I find a plethora of Examination Board meetings, one (tomorrow) for our Masters students who did their presentations on Friday and two for undergraduates who took repeat examinations in August (one for Mathematical Physics and one for Engineering, as I happen to have been teaching Engineering Mathematics this year). The two undergraduate boards are both on Thursday. All three of these should be relatively brief, but you never know…
There is another meeting tomorrow, Monday, about organizing our computational physics teaching for the new academic year. The merger of theoretical and experimental physics has given us the chance to coordinate the different computational modules offered by the two previous departments, but we need to make sure the teaching rooms are big enough and the computers have the correct software, etc. Fortunately I’m not actually teaching Computational Physics again until Semester 2 but we have to get it sorted in time for other modules happening in Semester 1.
In between Monday and Thursday I have two whole days with no meetings and no grading to do. I might be able to get on with some research, or at least with writing up some research I’ve already done.
Friday is a big day for the Irish higher education system, in that it’s the day students get their Leaving Certificate results. This year the grade inflation introduced during the pandemic is supposed to begin to unwind, but none of us outside the examination system knows how this will be achieved or what the results will be. If I had to bet I’d say that the CAO points needed for most courses at Maynooth will go down substantially, partly because of the deflation mentioned previously but also because The Management has decided that the University has to recruit more and more students and will drop entry standards as low as it needs to in order to meet its targets.
I don’t know how many students we will end up with for Academic Year 2025/6 but I do know that I will have retired before most of them complete their course. I used to find it a bit scary thinking about retirement, but not any more.
#ComputationalPhyscs #LeavingCertificate #MaynoothUniversity #Physics #postgraduate #undergraduate
Presentation Day
Today was the day the last component of our MSc in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics here in Maynooth. The students handed in their dissertations on Monday and today they all gave presentations about their work. Listening to them all was very enjoyable, actually, as they were on a range of different topics, some purely mathematical, some statistical, and some more obviously physics. Moreover, they were all very good.
It also occurred to me during today’s presentations that we may make more use of such assessments to deal with the encroaching use of AI in project dissertations. One can get a good idea if someone has actually done and understood the work if they can present it in person and answer questions. That is, after all, the main reason we do viva voce examinations at PhD level.
Listening to talk after talk in a long session can be quite wearying – conferences are usually set up like that and they’re not often useful or interesting – but today’s session was fun. Not so much for the students I suppose, as there were a few signs of nerves. When all the talks were over the students trouped off en masse (presumably to the pub) as that was the end of their course. The staff remained behind to agree a set of marks and combine them with the other components of assessment, i.e. the marks for the dissertation. The examination board meets early next week, after which the final results will go forward to the University.
It was great to see the students all completing their course successfully, especially because it is (I think) such a demanding one. My only sadness is that we won’t see them until the conferring ceremonies in October. The Masters students have been regularly present in the Department throughout the whole year and I’ve had quite a lot of interest chats with them. I saw my own project student even more frequently, once a week for almost a year. We have to banish such thoughts now, though, as our thoughts turn to next year’s intake.
I don’t think any of the MSc students will read this – for all I know they’re still in the pub! – but in any case I’d like to say congratulations to them all and wish them all the very best for the future. They’ve earned it!
#Masters #MScTheoreticalPhysicsAndMathematics #postgraduate #Presentations
What is happening in American tertiary education?
As we wrap up #PopFest2025, we'd like to say thanks and farewell to the delegates who made it a fun and informative two days. We also thank the sponsors listed below.
The search is now on for next year's student organising committee - get in touch if you think that could be you...
#populationstudies #socialscience #demography #conference #population #phd #postgraduate #postgraduatenetwork
Still mourning a lost PhD nearly three decades on https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/still-mourning-a-lost-phd-nearly-three-decades-on/ #Academia #PhD #ChronicIllness #Postgraduate
‼️ Extended deadlines for #PopFest2025
UK/Europe based? We need your papers and posters! Send a short abstract to [email protected] by 5pm BST on 13 June - bursaries are available too.
Registration to attend is also now open until 15 June.
Full info: http://cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest_2025/
#postgraduate #population #postgraduateconference #demography #socialscience #ageing #mortality #geography #health
Edinburgh University has some Postgraduate Online Learning Open Days virtual sessions on today Thursday 22nd May.
https://app.geckoform.com/public/#/modern/21FO00qhsrvua100ij9gmgpctq
Currently in a webinar about competency based admissions from the EDEPI project https://www.ntu.ac.uk/c/equity-in-doctoral-education-through-partnership-and-innovation - I share their starting point which is to select doctoral candidates based on potential (which I have found to be more controversial than I expected). #postgraduate #DoctoralEducation #PostgraduateResearch
https://unu.edu/merit/article/building-better-doctoral-support-systems-pandemic-lessons-future < Blog from my collaborators on how systemic resilience complements, supplements and enhances supervisor-researcher relationships. When times are hard the depth and breadth of the support systems is crucial. #Researchculture #Postgraduate #PhD #PostgraduteResearch #resilience #Bronfenbrenner
I haven’t had a journal article accepted for publication in six years. Until today, by Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education…
Celbis, O.; van de Laar, M.; Windsor, W. L.; Papatsiba, V.; Ofosu-Ampong, K.; Kurawa, G.; Sadat Bole, A.; Ani-Ampsonah, Mary; Xu, Linlin
Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.
I’ll share the open access version when it’s ready, but here’s the abstract:
Purpose
This study contributes to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. We examine support practices at different levels of the system in which doctoral students are embedded, drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model to better understand how these contribute to doctoral students’ degree of resilience under stress.
Design
Using paired online interviews, we explore the experiences of 21 doctoral students from 7 universities across Europe, Africa and Asia.
Findings
We find that support of supervisors at the microsystem level was a pivotal mediating factor in explaining to what extent the negative impacts of the pandemic were experienced by the doctoral students in our sample. At the same time, factors at the systemic level, such as weak infrastructure for online education, and limited incentives for supervisors to engage in additional mentoring beyond supervision, affected the repertoire of actions available to students at lower levels of the support system. In less resourced settings where systemic constraints were felt particularly strongly, students had to self-facilitate sources of resilience, resorting to peer and external mentors’ support at the mesosystem level of their environment.
#covid19 #pandemic #research #HigherEducation #PhD #postgraduate #resilience #Bronfenbrenner
⏰ Hey #population #postgraduate students - only TWO WEEKS left to submit your abstracts on all things #demography, #migration, #health, #data and #population for #PopFest2025.
Head to the info page for more about the research strands and to submit:
https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest_2025/
📑You can also apply for a bursary to attend #PopFest2025, designed to support accepted presenters facing barriers to participation.
📨 Submit your bursary application for consideration by 4 April at: https://southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3lLg3lPQJDbm5sW
Delighted to have been elected to the board of the UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) as a trustee. Hoping to give back some of the things I have gained from this gem of an organisation over my time as a supervisor and Dean. #postgraduate
I spent 26 hours in the hands of UK Council for Graduate Education at their annual Doctoral Deans and Directors residential on Thursday and Friday.
We listened to experts and talked through approaches to everything from quality assurance to harassment and sexual misconduct (and I volunteered to help at a session for colleagues new to the network/role).
Made a lot of friends and learnt so much.
#GraduateSchool #DoctoralEducation #Postgraduate #Graduate #leadership #HigherEd #HigherEducation #PhD
https://doctalent4eu.eu/2024/12/02/save-the-date-doctalent4eu-final-event-on-march-2025/ < this looks great if you are interested in industry-linked doctoral education #phd #postgraduate #doctoratestudent #PostgraduateResearch #employability