Academic and professional development for PhD students

This information is for the 2014/15 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar (Teaching and Learning Centre), with LSE colleagues and external consultants

Availability

All PhD students are welcome and all events are free of charge, but booking for each event is required.

Pre-requisites

For some events, students are requested to bring along current work and/or be prepared to participate actively.

Course content

This is a year-long series of interdisciplinary workshops designed both to support the writing and completion of theses and to develop students’ understanding of how their research can be communicated within and beyond academia. Workshops are divided into three strands to cover the various stages of thesis progression (see MY593A, MY593B and MY593C in Research Course Guides) with subjects including:

• The macro-structure of the thesis;
• Writing compelling abstracts;
• Developing your academic writing;
• Getting published;
• Preparing for and handling your viva.

Teaching

All events follow the dates of the LSE teaching year. Further details, and links to booking pages, can be found at Academic and professional development programme.

Assessment

There is no formal assessment for this course.