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Three minutes. One big idea
23 May 2025
What can you do with just three minutes? Boil an egg, make the perfect cuppa, or... explain a PhD?
- Three minutes. One big idea 23 May 2025 What can you do with just three minutes? Boil an egg, make the perfect cuppa, or... explain a PhD?
- Speakers announced for Be Empowered event 12 May 2025 Be Empowered: Transforming Academic Expertise into Career Success, an event to celebrate diversity, welcomes three speakers from industry and academia. Read on for more information.
- Building cross-CDT relationships at World Cafe Knowledge Exchange event 11 March 2025 Over 30 PhD and EngD students gathered at We the Curious on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, for an engaging World Café Knowledge Exchange event.
- Applications are now open for this year’s University of Bristol Three Minute Thesis Competition! 6 March 2025 An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take 9 hours to present? Your time limit? 3 minutes.
- New blog post - Ten Tips for the Mental Gymnastics of Writing your Dissertation into a Book by Kate Holmes 5 March 2025 For me, it wasn’t the proposal stage of turning my dissertation into a book that was tricky, but the rewriting. My book is very similar to my dissertation, particularly when it comes to the broad structure. I thought this meant it would be a relatively quick and easy exercise. But, it was harder than I anticipated because the writing was good enough for examination, but not for wider publication. It wasn’t a total rewrite but a shift in emphasis and expression. What follows are my tips based on my experience from an arts and humanities perspective…
- Meet the 2024/25 Be More Empowered for Success PGR Advocates 24 February 2025 The Be More Empowered for Success PGR Programme, established in 2022, has developed a programme of activities and events aimed at supporting an increased sense of belonging and connection among home Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic postgraduate researchers in the University. We had a chat with the group's Advocates to learn more about their experiences running the group.
- Two new video series shine a light on the postgraduate researcher experience 31 January 2025 The Bristol Doctoral College, with support from the Careers Service and the Global Engagement Division, has developed two video series focused on the postgraduate research (PGR) student journey.
- EPSRC Doctoral Prize 2024 – Autumn Call – Applications now open 16 September 2024 Applications are now open for the prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship awards. The EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship scheme is a unique opportunity for recent EPSRC-funded PhD students to launch their research careers in a supportive environment at the University of Bristol. The deadline for applications is Friday 1 November 2024.
- EPSRC Doctoral Prize 2024 – Applications now open 15 March 2024 Applications are now open for the prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship awards. The EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship scheme is a unique opportunity for recent EPSRC-funded PhD students to launch their research careers in a supportive environment at the University of Bristol. The deadline for applications is 2 May 2024.
- Would you like to contribute to raising the profile of PGR in your research community? 27 October 2023 The ‘People, Culture and Environment’ element of the Research Excellence Framework is currently out for consultation. This presents an opportunity to better represent PGR contributions to Research. The deadline for contributions is the 1st of December.