Annual Conference 2026 — Presentation Downloads

Download copies from some of the presentations for the UKCGE Annual Conference 2026.

Please note that not all presentations are available to download. If you presented at the conference and are happy for a copy of your presentation to be included on this page, please email it to ukcge@ukcge.ac.uk

Keynote Presentations

Rebekah Smith McGloin — Conference Welcome

Louise Sharpe — Connecting to Society and Doctoral Education for Public Good

Rebekah Smith McGloin — Conference Summary

Professional Network Sessions

Postgraduate Education Practitioners

Oral Presentations

Qammer Abbasi et al. — Reconfiguring doctoral admissions through competency: a multi-institutional ethnography of equity-in-practice

Ifedapo Francis Awolowo — Reimagining Postgraduate Cultures: Equity and Belonging through the ASPIRE Programme

Sarah Jane Bork & Joeseph Mirabelli — Preliminary Findings from an Instrument Examining Postgraduate Students’ Mental Health Experiences

Kathy Chandler — Enhancing the wellbeing of online doctoral researchers

Marjory Da Costa, David Smith & Elizabeth Scanlon — Liberating AI Literacy in PGR skills development at Sheffield Hallam University

Malgorzata Drewniok — ‘Difference is not something to overcome but to build from’: the importance of intercultural sensitivity training for PGR supervisors.

Lauren Pearl Holmes et al — Empowered Postgraduate Research Students can lead substantial EDI enhancement initiatives

Claire Hudson — Why pursue postgraduate taught study? Motivations and expectations of home and international students in health and life sciences

Debra Jones — Inclusion and equality in internationally diverse postgraduate classrooms: perceptions of students and lecturers

Michelle Morgan & Paul Wakeling — Supporting the Postgraduate Taught Student Experience using a Pre-arrival Academic Questionnaire

Fryni Panayidou — Beyond emotional support: developing agency though PhD Support Groups

Caroline Soliman — From Bench to Business: Navigating Research Commercialisation as a Postgraduate Researcher in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Fiona Wilkie & Helen Robertson — Best of both worlds?: PGR communities in and with non-HEI organisations

Symposium — Generative AI

Emma Cripps, Vincent Adams & Darren Van Laar — Navigating AI Together: Creating a Collaborative Digital Space for Postgraduates

Symposium — Inclusion

Paige Monaghan & Laura Radcliffe — Rapid Evidence Review of Inclusion in PGR Students

Symposium — Doing More With Less

Graham McLaren — From Brand Promise to Doctoral Belonging: Aligning Recruitment Messaging with Lived PGR Research Culture

Symposium — PGR Led Initiatives

Ebenezer Ishola & Dean Smith — PGR voices: Understanding the challenges of diverse doctoral scholars through EDI Networks

Workshops

Ole Pahl & Julie Rober — Making Sense of Perspectives in Doctoral Progression: A Participatory Workshop using Conceptual Mapping

Round Table Discussions

Tania Goddard et al — Enhancing Support for Part-Time Doctoral Researchers: Supervision, Challenges, and Inclusive Practice

Lauren Pearl Holmes et al — It Takes a “Village:” A Community-Based Approach to Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) Parenting and Caring

20:20 Presentations

Victoria Ade-Genschow — Professional Doctorates: A Tool for Sustainability and Inclusive Postgraduate Culture?

Enrica Conrotto & Julia Taylor — Growing Our Research Ecosystem

Nicholas Grindle — What can peer review of supervision learn from peer review of teaching?

Danielle Miles & Alison Gray — Designing Sustainable Multi‑Year Training Pathways for doctoral cohorts: A Skills-Based Model for Research Culture & Collaboration

Nicholas Young et al — Using program-level completion metrics to support inclusive postgraduate cultures