The Postgraduate Student Surveys are your chance to provide valuable feedback on your academic experiences at Kent.

We want to hear what you have enjoyed, areas in which the University has done well and where you think improvements might be made.

All participants will receive a £10 Amazon voucher code! 

The PG Student Surveys close on Thursday 16th June so you have one day to complete the survey and claim your £10 Amazon voucher if you haven’t already done so.  You will be emailed directly with your own link to the survey to please check your emails

The postgraduate Student Surveys are your chance to provide valuable feedback on your academic experiences at Kent.

We want to hear what you have enjoyed, areas in which the University has done well and where you think improvements might be made.

All participants will receive a £10 Amazon voucher code!

Please check your emails as you will be emailed directly about completing the survey, and see https://www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/pgsurveys.html for more information.

Our annual Postgraduate Festival was a big success. We would like to thank all the participants from across the faculties who came to showcase their research, it was a fascinating day.

For the attention of (FAO):  2nd and 3rd year PhD students

^9th Cumberland Lodge Doctoral Students Conference, 30^th August – 2nd September 2016

The Graduate School is pleased to be able to offer one funded place at the above conference for a second or third year doctoral student.  Please see further details here: www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/PhD

The conference is open to students of all disciplines at any stage in their doctorate, and is designed to help both those embarking on doctorates and those considering what they will do in the longer term. During the conference, students will:

• explore common concerns
• have opportunities to present their research to those in different disciplines and institutions
• engage with those with doctorates with careers within and outside the academic world.
• receive training in communication and successful application writing

Students will also have the unique experience of staying at Cumberland Lodge, a charitable foundation with over sixty years’ experience of working with students from across the world, and which each year hosts approximately 180 academic visits from universities across Britain.

The Graduate School is offering one funded place, to a second or third year PhD student, in single accommodation which includes all meals and refreshments.  We will also refund reasonable travelling expenses to and from the Lodge i.e. rail or mileage from Kent or the South East.

If you are interested in attending this event please email Carla Doolan, Postgraduate Development Coordinator at skills@kent.ac.uk by 5pm, Friday 27th May, explaining briefly what you would hope to gain from the experience.  Applications will then be considered by the Dean of the Graduate School.

There will be a Research Cafe taking place at the following times, at the Canterbury Campus, in the Graduate School Training Room, Cornwallis East, 3rd floor:

Wednesday 18th May, 10-11am

Tuesday 31st May 10-11:30am

Coffee/tea and biscuits provided.

Each café features one or two 20 minute talks from postgraduate researchers from different disciplines, with a chance to ask questions, debate and network.  If you would like to contribute, or have and idea/theme in mind for an upcoming Research Café session, please contact Hannah Huxley at: hh318@kent.ac.uk.

The 2016 Postgraduate Festival is taking place on Friday 20th May in Woolf and promises to be a great celebration of postgraduate research at Kent.

The Festival will feature a BBC style ‘Question time’ with a panel of top Kent academics, so if you have a question on any topic relating to academic study then register online now to submit your question!

If your question is chosen, you will be asked to deliver the question to the panel, BBC style, on the day.  Register here:http://www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/news/pgfestival-presenters-registration.html

The Cumberland Lodge Scholarship is a two year programme for doctoral students studying at universities in the UK, designed to fit around their studies.

The scholarship offers a unique opportunity for students from any discipline to develop skills in communication, public engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Six scholarships are available each year and applications are now invited for the third group of scholars, to start in September 2016.

The closing date for applications is 12 May 2016.  Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 26 May 2016 and interviewed by Skype on 8 June 2016.

For further information and application form please visit: www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/scholarships2016

The 2016 Postgraduate Festival is taking place on Friday 20th May in Woolf and promises to be a great celebration of postgraduate research in Kent.

Included in the programme will be:

• A BBC style “Question Time” with a panel of top Kent academics
• An excellent Keynote speaker (Ulrike Hotopp, Chief Economist at Simetrica)
• The final of the 3MT competition and student research presentations and displays.

If you wish to showcase your research, give a presentation or ask a question please register here http://www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/news/pgfestival-presenters-registration.html

On Monday 14th March 2016, six postgraduate students gave a short presentation about their culture as part of the Global Skills Award programme. Thank you to the following students who presented and made the evening a great success:

Dynamic Field Theory is a framework for understanding how the brain gives rise to thinking in real time, and how cognitive decisions leave memory traces that are the basis for learning and development.  The Summer School will provide an overview of DFT, using a new text Dynamic Thinking – A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory.

The school will be led by Prof. John P. Spencer.  Prof Spencer will lecture on the concepts of DFT from 9-10.30 each day.  This will be followed by a second guest lecture on exemplary case studies from 11-12.  Afternoon sessions from 2-4 will provide hands-on training working with DF models in COSIVINA, an interactive simulation environment.  Students will develop their own projects during the school to learn how to apply the concepts of DFT to their home domain of interest.

To apply, send a 2-page CV and brief cover letter describing why you want to attend the school to: SSF.AdvancedTraining@uea.ac.uk. Additional details including information on fees can be found at www.dynamicfieldtheory.org/engage.