Terms of reference

What's up doc? is an open forum for PGRs to  their experience, careers and skills development.

Posts are encouraged on the following topics:

• career, professional and personal development
• up and coming events and news related to career, professional and personal development
• policy developments relevant to PGR
• feature articles such as interviews, career histories, academics talking about their time as a PGR etc.
• useful resources for PGRs

Vitae encourages openness, diversity of opinion and robust debate as long as it is not:

• untrue, defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, sexually oriented, threatening, or invasive of a person's privacy
•  in violation of any law of the United Kingdom
• posting advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes or commercial solicitation.
• posting copyrighted material without permission
•   "trolling" or posting content designed to inflame, incite or that has no purpose at all
•  linking to content in violation of this guidance
•  false reporting of posts and/or abuse of the reporting feature
• evading or attempts to evade warnings, bans, or other administrative actions
• or any other posts that are deemed inappropriate by Vitae.

If you see any violation of this guidance please inform Vitae on website@vitae.ac.uk. Posts will be removed without prior notice being given. Vitae is the sole arbiter of what does and does not break these rules.

What's up doc? is a multi-disciplinary forum for PGRs to discuss their experiences. It is not designed to be an academic journal and encourages participants to consider their role as a researcher rather than report on the details of their research.

Style

• reflective
• encouraging response
• typically no more than 300 words