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Effective Researcher: Effective Progress22 June 2012

Event overview

Audience:

Postgraduate researchers early in the second year of full-time (or part-time equivalent) doctoral research

 

Aims:

  • To help you maintain the momentum of your doctorate as you enter your second year (full-time equivalent)
  • To refocus on the wider process of successfully completing your doctorate on time

This course has been designed to help you navigate this extremely challenging middle part of your doctorate. It is an opportunity to review what you have done to date, and explore how that relates to what you need to achieve overall, as well as looking ahead to what needs to be done in the short- to medium-term future.

 

What will you gain?

This course offers you the opportunity to:

  • (Re-)Clarify where you are within the doctoral process

  • Consider some critical success factors for the second year of a doctorate

  • Identify, clarify and be able to express clearly and cogently your research hypothesis (the thesis in your thesis), and possibly some research questions

  • Begin to focus on what your thesis should look like (structure), including considering the assessment criteria

  • Focus on managing that process

  • Set out your individual plan for the coming year, and agree a review procedure for it

 

Programme

09:00

Registration and refreshments

09.30

Introduction to the day

09.45

Climbing the doctoral mountain (Reflections on the previous 12 months or so)

10.30

The view from here - Who will finish the climb and who might fall (Critical success factors for the second year)

11.15

Coffee break

11:30

Two theses: What is your thesis trying to say? (Hypothesis and research questions)

12.30

Lunch

13.30

Two theses: Fitting the pieces together - How to construct your thesis and meet the assessment criteria

14.30

Coffee break

14.45

Managing your doctoral process

15.45

Action planning

16.15

Wrap-up and review

16:30

Close


Booking has now closed.

22June2012

The University of Manchester

Audience:
Postgraduate researchers.
Region:
National
North West
Contact:
nwhub@vitae.ac.uk  
Location:
The University of Manchester  

Venue information

The University of Manchester

University Place, Room 6.207 (Building no. 37 on the campus map which can be found here)

 

Entry requirements/cost

Free, open to Postgraduate researchers early in the second year of full-time (or part-time equivalent) doctoral research