BALEAP Doctoral Education SIG

This might be of interest to our SIG members #PhDstudents - Supporting doctoral students with their health and wellbeing wonkhe.com/blogs/supporti… via @wonkhe

A useful insight to professional doctorates. Might be of interest to those supporting PGRs on this route. #research #writing #PGR

Exciting new book! #EAP @baleap

This academic year, the SIG continued with our well-established coffee meets every month. We also started Reading Cafes and Teaching Materials Share sessions. Both have been successful, so the committee is busy planning new sessions in all three strands for 24-25! #planning

@Carole_GU @JoFerrie @ide_haghi Thank you for flagging this, looks very good, definitely on our TBR!

A lot of the work our SIG members do is pastoral - yes, we teach #PhD level academic writing and other research skills, but we're also there to support #PGR students. Doing a PhD can be very lonely.

Doing a PhD is tough, which is why we, along with the help of 50 other academics, wrote a book with over 100 pieces of advice to make your PhD more manageable. It covers all different aspects like, How to pick a good research topic How to best interact with your supervisors How to manage the imposter syndrome How to make friends during your PhD How to keep motivated How to write a literature review And much more! You can find it here: amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BXMY…

I wrote a piece for @timeshighered, talking about why every student (and researcher) should know about evidence synthesis, and how they can start learning (for free) this important research methodology. Read it here: timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-eve…

Earlier today we held the AGM for our Doctoral Education SIG, followed by a discussion of ideas for future activities. We're very excited about these new developments to come, watch this space! #tleap #PhDstudents

The @baleap Doctoral Education SIG will be represented at the #BALEAP2023 conference this week, both at the SIG Fayre and with some members presenting. Come and see us at the SIG Fayre on Wed 19 April, 1-2pm and learn what our SIG is about! #tleap #PhDstudents

Does your thesis have a SOCK - a Significant and Original Contribution to Knowledge? How would you know if it's significant or original enough? Look at other theses to see what their contribution is. Ask your supervisor and peers. #PhDForum #phdlife

Some insight on how #PhDstudents receive feedback from their supervisors. Good opportunity for us #EAP professionals to consider how we provide feedback to PGRs we work with. #feedback #supervision wonkhe.com/blogs/what-sor…

This afternoon we had our first coffee meet-up of 2023! Today Milada Walkova (Leeds) spoke about Thick Critical Thinking in pedagogy, on a pre-sessional for #PGR students. This was followed by a lively discussion. Great start of the year for the SIG! #tleap #PhDstudents

The SIG will continue its monthly meetups (contact us if you'd like to join the SIG and the meetings) and we're looking forward to a SIG event at #BALEAP2023 at Warwick! #tleap 6/6

In Panel 2, Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe told us about using MICUSP (the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers) for doctoral writing, and Robert Coates spoke about opportunities for Early Career Academics (ECA) to learn reviewing skills. #tleap #acwri 5/6

Om Saturday 12 Nov, the SIG held its first symposium (online) and it was a great event, bringing SIG members from various countries. We kicked off with an excellent plenary by @IanBruc19234684: Doctoral Education Theory and Practice: a personal account. #tleap 1/6

Last Friday we held our last coffee meet-up of this academic year. The focus was teaching speaking. We had a great discussion about varieties of PGR speaking and we could have talked much longer, another session is needed! #PhDstudents #PhDlife #tleap #speaking