Doctoral College: Arts and Humanities Faculty
Doing a PhD is in our view one of university life’s joys. It is perhaps the most satisfying of academic experiences. Of course, there will be lots of ups and downs along the way, but the satisfaction of achieving a PhD is immense and as a supervisor it is always a privilege to part of the experience.
The PhD used to be thought of as a kind of ivory tower experience where you had an idea, met your supervisor once in a while and ended up, somewhat miraculously, producing an 80,000 word book at the end of it. To an extent at least, it can still be like this. But nowadays there is so much more to the PhD experience.
The Doctoral College: Arts and Humanities Faculty is here to ensure that you share that experience as part of a collective body of students and supervisors. It’s really important that when you have a not so good PhD day (this is normal!!!), there are people around you that can help you put that day in context.
The Doctoral College Arts and Humanities Hub provides a number of things that will help you along your way: a Research Training Programme that adapts to your needs, resources to support your fieldwork and conference needs, Professional Development advice and a home: a home of peers and of experienced supervisors who have come across the kind of daily challenges you face many times before.
Please make the most of the Research Training Programme and the other initiatives that the Doctoral College: Arts and Humanities Faculty make available and remember that each event is another opportunity for you to collectively shape the PhD experience. Welcome – things will never be the same again!
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