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Graduate Seminar

PhD Students - would you like:      

  • an opportunity to meet other social science PhD students?       
  • to discuss your research, and present work in progress?       
  • to explore issues of methodology, research  design and epistemology?      
  • to choose interesting visiting speakers to invite to Birkbeck?       
  • to explore key theoretical debates within contemporary social research?...in a supportive and intellectually challenging environment

The BISR Graduate Seminar is a fortnightly seminar open to PhD students from across Birkbeck who are working on empirical social research theses which fall within the remit of the BISR. This includes sociology, psychosocial studies, socio-legal studies, gender studies, race, ethnicity and community studies, global, development and transnational studies, religious studies, politics, social research on art and artistic practice, and qualitative empirical cultural studies.

Apply to be part of the Graduate Seminar