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 using labour market information, writing covering letters and leadership.
Previous issues of PGR Tips
PGR Tips on using Labour market information, issue 62
30 January 2012
PGR Tips on Vitae’s What do researchers do? Labour market information: a new online resource on the career destinations of doctoral graduates.
PGR Tips on covering letter, issue 61
21 December 2011
Advice on witing personal statements/covering letters
PGR Tips on developing leadership issue 60
28 November 2011
PGT Tips is a mothly bulletin with tips for postgraduate researchers
PGR Tips on postgraduate experience, issue 59
21 October 2011
Monthly bulletin for postgraduate researchers
PGR Tips on making the most of your doctorate in the recession, issue 58
30 September 2011
Tips on making the most of your doctorate in the recession
PGR Tips on being assertive, issue 57
31 August 2011
Tips on being assertive
PGR Tips on writing grant applications, issue 56
26 July 2011
If you aspire to a career in academia the ability to generate funding (descriptor C3.1 of the Researcher Development Framework) is a real necessity. Outside academia this ability is also highly prized.
PGR Tips on Premia resources for disabled researchers, issue 55
28 June 2011
As part of the initiative ‘Every Researcher Counts’ Vitae has incorporated the work of Premia, the online resource for disabled researchers, into its website.
PGR Tips on effective blog posts, issue 54
31 May 2011
What’s up doc? is a new blog to stimulate informal discussion on the doctoral experience, from procrastination to online presence...
PGR Tips issue 53
22 April 2011
Planning your professional development