Dr Sarabajaya Kumar KSW5.02 and Prof Patrick Dunleavy CON5.19

MY593A is aimed at first-year students registered for the MPhil/PhD. It offers you the opportunity to extend your networks with students in other departments and reflect on your research plans in a series of thematic workshops, suitable for students across all disciplines and covering key topics arising in the early stages of your work. MY593B is intended for second- and third-year students registered for the PhD and embarking on the main body of their research. The thematic workshops are suitable for students in all disciplines across the School. MY593C is intended for students who are within a year to six months of completing their doctorate. The thematic workshops are suitable for colleagues across all disciplines in the School.

Booking is essential for each individual workshop that you wish to attend, and should be done online via lse.ac.uk/tlc/training

MY593A is aimed at first-year students registered for the MPhil/PhD. It offers you the opportunity to extend your networks with students in other departments and reflect on your research plans in a series of thematic workshops, suitable for students across all disciplines and covering key topics arising in the early stages of your work. MY593B is intended for second- and third-year students registered for the PhD and embarking on the main body of their research. The thematic workshops are suitable for students in all disciplines across the School. MY593C is intended for students who are within a year to six months of completing their doctorate. The thematic workshops are suitable for colleagues across all disciplines in the School

MY593A: Getting Started Using online resources for literature reviews - expert advice from LSE Library and academic staff. Working with and managing your relationship with your supervisor - explores the roles and responsibilities of each participant in the student-supervisor relationship and discusses how you can get the most from it. Blogging, press, web presence and social media - guidance and advice on communicating your research beyond academia. Managing your work life balance - an introduction to life-coaching and time-management tools that you can use to meet the important milestones in both your doctorate and your life. Thinking creatively and mind-mapping your original research - explores what originality means in relation to your research question and how to delimit your topic appropriately; features mind-mapping expert Tony Buzan and renowned LSE academics talking about their own research. MY593B: The Middle Years Using online resources for literature reviews - expert advice from LSE Library and academic staff. Writing compelling abstracts - expert advice for how to generate interest in your research among the wider academic community. Blogging, press, web presence and social media - guidance and advice on communicating your research beyond academia. Academic job interviews - hints and guidance on preparing for and performing successfully at interviews for academic jobs. Developing as an academic writer - aimed at students in the process of writing up their research and designed to help you develop your own writing style. MY593C: The Endgame Blogging, press, web presence and social media - guidance and advice on communicating your research beyond academia. Preparing for and handling your viva - covers long-run and short-run things to do in preparation for the final oral examination, with advice from both recent PhD graduates and academics who have acted as PhD examiners. Academic job interviews - hints and guidance on preparing for and performing successfully at interviews for academic jobs. Writing journal articles - guidance on how to turn chapters of your thesis into articles and submit them successfully to journals. Getting published 1, 2 and 3 - expert 'how to' guidance on developing a publishing strategy, getting a journal article published and making a successful pitch for a book proposal.

MY593A
Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish your doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), chapters 1-4. To get maximum value from the workshops, participants should read relevant chapters before attending the session. There are multiple copies in the Library's Course Collection.

MY593B
Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish your doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), chapters 5-6, 9. To get maximum value from the workshops, participants should read relevant chapters before attending the session. There are multiple copies in the Library's Course Collection.

MY593C
Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish your doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), chapters 8 and 9. To get maximum value from the workshops, participants should read relevant chapters before attending the session. There are multiple copies in the Library's Course Collection. Also Rowena Murray, How to Survive your Viva (Open University Press, 2003).

This course is non-examinable.