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Doctoral College Newsletter - 15 April 2024
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Are you ready to transfer to Continuation Status?
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If you will not undertake any significant additional research/data gathering and no longer require normal levels of supervision you may be eligible to transfer to Continuation Status - please refer to the TQA for details. This is especially relevant for self-funded students, and those whose funding ends before their completion deadline as when funding ends students become personally liable for tuition fees.
You must apply to transfer to continuation status through MyPGR when you are 3-6 months away from submitting your thesis – it is not automatic.
• Students who enrolled after 01 August 2019: continuation status will only be granted when supervisory team have received a near complete draft thesis, and you expect to submit within 3 to 6 months.
• Students who enrolled before 01 August 2019: the requirements may be different; please refer to the TQA for details.
Please discuss continuation status with your supervisors and PGR Support Team for more information.
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How can you effectively and successfully communicate your research? Good question! In our interactive session, PGR Skills Development and Network Building: Communicating your Research, you will learn some top tips for presenting your research in a variety of formats and have the opportunity to practice your communication skills while connecting with your fellow PGRs from across the university and building your peer-support network. All with the added bonus of coffee and cake! We will also be covering Research Showcase.
We look forward to seeing you there- our Streatham session takes place on Tuesday 30 April and the Penryn session on Thursday 23 May.
If you are attending on Tuesday 30 April, the deadline for informing us of dietary requirements is Thursday 25 April. If you are attending on Thursday 23 May, the deadline for informing us of dietary requirements is Friday 17 May.
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Research Showcase- Skills Training
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Planning on applying for one of our Research Showcase competitions and not sure where to start? We have set up courses to improve the key skills you will need for Poster Competition and Three Minute Thesis so book on now:
Both competitions have prizes of vouchers and if you win Three Minute Thesis, you will be put forward for the national Vitae Three Minute Thesis competition. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your research so please do check out the individual competition webpages for deadline, rules and how to apply.
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SCI Project Showcase: Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons form a Constitutional Reform in Brazil- Wednesday 17 April
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Date: Wednesday 17 April, 10.30-11.30
Venue: Marchant Syndicate Room A, Building One, Streatham Campus & online via Teams
Speaker: Damian Clarke (Economics)
This project seeks to estimate the causal impacts of public health spending on individual health outcomes in Brazil. It studies a major health reform in Brazil in which municipalities were mandated to spend 15% of their revenue on health.
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Join the ESI this Earth Day- Monday 22 April
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The Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is marking Earth Day 2024 with a day of activities on Monday 22 April, 10:00-15:30, ESI, Penryn Campus. Join a hybrid talk by Dr Ros Shaw (Exeter Sustainability Manager, Biodiversity) on becoming a Nature Positive University. Accompany Dr Jon Bennie (Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography) on a foraging walk around Penryn campus followed by a tea-making session with the foraged plants. Watch the filming screening of Temperature Rising about how three activists in Africa are grappling
with what thinking globally and acting locally means in practice and/or Our Beautiful Wild a powerful nature film, made by young people. Both films will be followed by Q&A sessions. Open to all staff, students and the wider community.
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SCI Project Showcase: Gene Drive Mosquitoes- Thursday 2 May
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Date: Thursday 2 May, 16.00-17.00
Venue: Digitial Humanities Seminar Room 1, Streatham Campus & online via Teams
Speakers: Professor Sarah Hartley (Management) and Dr Chris Opesen (Makerere University, Uganda)
Gene Drive Mosquitoes is a short documentary film that is beautifully shot in Uganda and explores Ugandan stakeholders’ hopes for gene drive mosquitoes – a radical new tool that offers a way to eliminate the mosquitoes that cause malaria. Following the film, Chris Opesen and Sarah Hartley will answer questions and facilitate discussion. Chris will also be available to talk about other global health topics he is working on.
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Catalysing Impact: Empowering Health and Life Sciences Early Career Researchers for Commercialisation Success Workshop- Tuesday 21 May
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Date: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Time: 09.00- 16.00
Venue: LSI (Living Systems Institute), Streatham Campus
🌟 Unlock Your Research Potential! 🚀
Are you an Early Career Researcher or PGR Student in Health and Life Sciences (HLS) at a UK University? Don't miss this chance to amplify your research impact and commercial success! Our Breakthrough HLS Impact Project aims to empower you to:
🎯 Recognise and translate real-world impact.
📅 Engage in Business Engagement, Commercialisation, and Impact Day.
🌐 Experience diverse perspectives through Cross-Faculty Collaboration.
🔍 Learn from renowned speakers for tangible outcomes
👐 Refine ideas in hands-on workshops.
🌱 Develop professional skills for long-term impact and pitch your ideas.
This activity is a Researcher-led Initiative that has been funded by the University of Exeter Researcher Development and Research Culture team.
Deadline for registration: Wednesday 15 May 2024
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Postgraduate Summer Ball- Saturday 1 June
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Date: Saturday 1st June
Time: 17.45-00.00
Venue: Reed Hall, Streatham Campus.
Tickets available on Fixr (Max 140 tickets available) for £23 plus Fixr fee. 3 Course meal followed by DJ, starting at 17:45 and finishing at 00:00 (midnight). Table wine/soft drinks included.
For the evening schedule, menu, or any other queries, please contact Simon on sp985@exeter.ac.uk.
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Join fellow PGRs in this online space, led by PGRs for PGRs to focus individually on whatever tasks you would like to work on. You can join the PGR Study Space Microsoft Teams Group here, or for further information, please contact Jo Sutherst.
The PGR Study Space core facilitated hours are:
Monday 10:00am-12:00pm
Wednesday 10:00am-12:00pm
Friday 10:00am-12:00pm
There are unfacilitated sessions outside of these hours so you can fit it around your working patterns.
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1-2-1 career appointments available
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1-2-1 careers appointments with our dedicated PGR careers coach, Kenneth Howgill, are available to book on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Kenneth is a qualified and experienced career coach, lecturer and learning and development professional with over 20 years’ experience within the corporate sector, universities, further and adult education. He has held management roles in the public, corporate and not for profit sectors, leading professional development, coaching programmes, and recruiting graduates. Kenneth is a member of the
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and holds a business degree, a master's in music and a professional career coaching qualification.
All appointments are 50 minutes long. Please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk if there are any technical difficulties.
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Wellbeing Support and Sessions
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April is Stress Awareness Month- please check out our resources and sessions below to help develop and maintain good mental health.
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Every Mind Matters
Having good mental health helps us relax more, achieve more and enjoy our lives more. The NHS have expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental health and wellbeing. See their website here.
Spectrum.Life
Sprectrum.Life provides a confidential telephone, video, and live chat counselling service to help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, bereavement and more.
Wellbeing Centre
If you would like to speak to PGR Education Welfare Team for Welfare, they can be contacted at welfare.pgr@exeter.ac.uk or tel: 01392 726207. Further wellbeing information, tools and support can be found on our wellbeing webpages.
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Free Mindfulness Sessions for Wellbeing
Mindfulness is a powerful practice of training our attention and an evidence-based way to tackle anxiety, stress and low mood. If you’re interested in exploring more, there is a variety of free internal options available for all colleagues.
Sessions from the internal Mood Disorders Centre mindfulness team include: an eight-week MBCT-L course (2hrs weekly), an eight-week ‘deeper mindfulness’ course for those who’ve completed the MBCT-L course and bespoke ‘healthy mind’ sessions for whole teams, which can be delivered in-person or online.
You may also be interested in trying mindful meditation in 30 min online sessions each Thursday lunchtime. This is a secular practice run by the Chaplaincy.
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Power Walk and Talk Group
Join a lunchtime group for a power walk- meet outside Washington Singer Labs, Streatham Campus.
When: 12.30 every Thursday
What: Brisk 20 mins power walk around the university grounds
Who: Open to all – students, staff and even their dogs!
Why: Get active, socialise, enjoy fresh air and natural beauty, improve PM productivity
This concept was selected by the Mental Health and Wellbeing Group to receive funding assistance from the Wellness Creation fund.
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The Cornwall Wellbeing Network would like to invite you to this month’s Fika, taking place on Tuesday 16 April at 15:00, in the Peter Lanyon kitchen/staff room.
This month we are collaborating with ✨ Flapjackery ✨ to provide you with a selection of award-winning flapjacks from their newly opened Falmouth shop. Tea and coffee are provided, please just bring your own mug!
For those not yet familiar with Fika, it is a low-key monthly gathering of folks who enjoy an afternoon tea break and a chance to meet and chat with new people. It is an entirely cross-departmental event open to PGRs, ECRs and staff from Exeter, Falmouth, FXPlus and the SU. Sharing of home baked goods is encouraged but not enforced 😉
Please contact Tasha Hammond (nh510@exeter.ac.uk) if you have any queries.
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Details on how you can contact the PGR support team, either via email, telephone or face to face via our hubs (located on all campuses) is available on our contact us webpage.
Remember you can come along and meet the team or to ask any enquiries you might have at either of our helpdesk hubs below at any of our campuses:
The Streatham PGR Hub is open from 10.00am – 3.00pm Monday to Friday. The Streatham Hub is situated in the Old Library Ground Floor next to the Quiet Study Space and Bill Douglas Centre.
The St Luke’s PGR Hub is open from 10.00am – 3.00pm Monday to Thursday. Students wishing to access the hub should go to the Info at St Luke’s desk and request PGR support. The PGR team will then be called to see you.
The Penryn PGR Support Office is open from 10.00am – 2.00pm Monday to Friday. It is based in the Postgraduate Suite in Daphne Du Maurier building 3 (next to the SU and opposite the Stannary).
For enquiries surrounding training and development, please contact the team on: ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk
You can view previous versions of the newsletter here.
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