For nearly a decade since our first post in June 2016, our home at has served us well, and we’ve loved having you with us. However, it is now time for a change, and as of today, we have moved…| UoB PGR Development
2 posts published by Georgina Hardy during August 2025| UoB PGR Development
In this in-depth post, Holly Prescott, the PGR Careers Advisor from Careers Network, shares practical advice from the PGR Careers in Academia webinar series earlier this summer, offering strategies to help PGRs navigate the academic job market with confidence and clarity. If you came into your PhD with hopes of pursuing an academic career, then … Continue reading "Claiming Your Space in Academia: Practical Tips for the Academic Job Market"| UoB PGR Development
Last month, 8-10 July, was the Postgraduate Researcher Online Writing Summer School. Here, Lucy Bartlett, a PGR in Education, shares her reflections on attending the workshops and a couple of the k…| UoB PGR Development
In this post, PJ Nambo, a PhD student in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, reflects on the power of saying yes, overcoming imposter syndrome, and discovering the value of their unique pers…| UoB PGR Development
1 post published by Georgina Hardy during July 2025| UoB PGR Development
In this blog post, Maria Antonopoulou, a Research Skills Advisor in the Research Skills Team in Libraries and Learning Resources, introduces ORCID, highlighting how creating and maintaining a profi…| UoB PGR Development
In the second of our two consecutive posts on the viva, David Jackson, a PGR from the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, offers a candid and reassuring account of his, reflecting on the nerves, …| UoB PGR Development
1 post published by Georgina Hardy during June 2025| UoB PGR Development
In the first of two consecutive posts on the viva, Susan Quick, a part-time doctoral student from the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) who has recently passed her viva with major cor…| UoB PGR Development
In this post, Sue Blackwell, a PGR in Applied Health Sciences, reflects on the challenges and insights of researching a condition she has lived with for two decades. I’m a final-year PhD student and my research focuses on parastomal hernia – a type of hernia that develops near a stoma, which is a surgically created … Continue reading "Bridging experience and evidence in health research"| UoB PGR Development
One of our University of Birmingham 3 Minute Thesis finalists and Judges’ Runner-Up Prize winner, Alison Fulop, a PGR in Psychology, shares her reasons for participating in the competition and what…| UoB PGR Development
The Edgbaston Campus is quiet at the moment, for the Easter Vacation. It isn’t the eerie quiet of a Summer Vacation; there are a few more undergraduates around than that, and there is a sligh…| UoB PGR Development
In our final post of 2024, Dr Charlene Rose, a recently completed PGR in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, shares her strategy for getting through the very final stages of …| UoB PGR Development
