MPhil / PhD training
See also: information on dissertations and research ethics and Drop in advice sessions for MA and PhD students
Courses and workshops
- Making a success of your doctorate: all-day event for new MPhil/PhD students
- Getting started on your PhD: generic skills workshop Stage 1
- Getting into your stride: generic skills workshop for PhD candidates, Stage 2
- Finishing your PhD: generic skills workshop for PhD candidates, Stage 3
- Graduate seminars for social science students
- Courses offered by the Bloomsbury Post-graduate Network
Birkbeck guides
- Advanced library skills
- Applying for a University Job
- Applying for Funding
- How to present an academic paper (Dr Dick Rayne)
- IPR and Research Ownership
- PhDs in the Labour Market
- Poster Presentations
- Producing a Thesis
- Producing a Thesis - Handout
- Publish or perish?
- Research Papers
- Surviving the Viva
- The student/supervisor relationship
- The Good Viva Video (restricted access)
- The Good Supervision Video (restricted access)
- The Good Presentation Video (restricted access)
- The Good Doctorate Video (restricted access)
- Time management
- Your training needs
- Research Methods Film (restricted access)
Online resources
- Vitae: researchers' portal
- Writing research theses or dissertations: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Learner Associates complete step-by-step guide to PhD research from the formulating of an initial idea through to the presentation and defence of a thesis
- Open Thesis a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents with search, organization and collaboration tools.


