PGSkills Courses: recommended for part time doctoral students
Online resources and e- learning modules
- Academic integrity
- Being a Successful Part-Time Doctoral Student - Dr James Bilzon presentation - podcast
- Careers in academia
- Careers beyond academia
- Doctoral question bank - audio recordings of answers to typical queries from doctoral students - you will need to log in using BUCS username and password
- Endnote online tutorials and support via the Library
- Entrepreneurship 1: Are you an entrepreneur?
- Entrepreneurship 2: Opportunity recognition, creation & evaluation
- Entrepreneurship 3: resources (people, teams, finance)
- Getting the Most out of Conferences
- Information/library skills guides
- IT guides from Computing Services
- Part-time researcher films from Vitae
- Plagiarism and how to avoid it
- PowerPoint online tutorials
- Research Ethics & Governance
- Research project management
- Researcher Skills Guides
- Reviewing, managing and using literature
- Starting your doctorate
- Time Management for researchers
- Viva: Preparing for your viva
- Viva: Preparing for the Viva (Humanities and Social Sciences)- podcast
- Writing for the web for researchers
- Writing papers for publication
- Writing your thesis
Workshops
Being an effective researcher, part time
Personal effectiveness for researchers
Recognising and managing stress during your doctorate
Staying motivated in the PhD: avoiding the procrastination trap
