Saturday 24 January 2009

Doctoral school


General

Journal Educate

Poster conference (February)
Summer conference (June)

* Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network
www.grad.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury

Writing

CAPLIT - Room 603 Information outside room 602
small courses (optional over 4 weeks) but also courses in the formal program at each stage.
Student writing guide £7 , available in the bookstore

DocSoc docsoc@tan.epsilon.org.uk;
Student Union soc  - level 3 (v.malavemi@ioe.ac.uk in 2009)

discount community charge and travel card (?oyster) for full time students

Thesis
supervisor pt = 9 times, ft = 15 times

upgrade MPhil to PhD  ft=3rd term, pt=5th term
10,000 words
must include: a research outline, record of research training, a timetable for carrying out the research.
can include: a literature review, report of preliminary empirical work, critique of a related PhD.

Thesis & IT

* Personal access to IOE network; can save work on N drive - My Docs on PC, Homefolder on Macs 
guides to Office, Excel are excellent.