Welcome to PGR Tips!
PGR Tips is our monthly email, which offers tips and advice to help you throughout your doctorate (and beyond). Recent issues have covered tips on project management, tips from the Wilson review and email handling.
Previous issues of PGR Tips
PGR Tips on defeating self-sabotage
27 March 2013
On self-sabotage
Vitae PGR Tips on action planning, issue 74
23 January 2013
Vitae PGR Tips on action planning
PGR Tips on writing your thesis, issue 73
21 December 2012
How to finish your thesis...
PGR Tips on authorship, issue 72
23 November 2012
This issue will apply more to those of you doing research in the physical and life sciences and less to those in Arts and Humanities.
PGR Tips on staying happy, issue 71
22 October 2012
Many researchers have faced and overcome difficulties during their doctorate. How do you minimise this and stay happy?
PGR Tips on being aware of your values
21 September 2012
PGR Tips on values
PGR Tips on finishing your doctorate, issue 69
24 August 2012
How do you juggle various aspects of finishing your doctorate and what do you prioritise?
PGR Tips on professionalism, issue 68
13 July 2012
Whether you regard your doctorate as a degree or as a period of employment (as it is viewed in many European countries) professional conduct is an important attribute expected in a researcher.
PGR Tips on handling emails, issue 67
20 June 2012
PGR Tips on effective ways of handling emails
PGR Tips on project management, issue 66
18 May 2012
A previous issue of PGR Tips covered how to articulate your skills to employers outside higher education. One skill employers often look for is project management.