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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

"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."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01242-z

#Education #PostGraduate #China

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

New Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme Piloted in Orkney

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/22/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

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

📢 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

Edit: Typo corrected

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

What is happening in American tertiary education?

#education #PostGraduate #Trumpistan #university

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

#Edinburgh #Postgraduate #MSc #EdinburghUniversity

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