UKCGE | Annual Conference 2026

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Thursday 2nd July — 11:40Supporting Supervisory Practice: Reflections on Developing PhD Supervisor Training Across a Doctoral Training Programme — Oral Presentation (30mins)GW4 Connect – Evidencing the impact of inclusive support for UK Postgraduate Research — Oral Presentation (30mins)Building community, connection and career development opportunities for PGR: considering practical solutions — Workshop (70mins)PGR Led Initiatives — Symposium (70mins)

Thursday 2nd July — 12:20Inter-institutional supervisor CPD: piloting a joint peer mentoring circle to support replacement supervisors — Oral Presentation (30mins)Beyond the Degree: Constructing Wellbeing Among Women Doctoral Students — Oral Presentation (30mins)

Thursday 2nd July — 13:45From Induction to Onboarding: A structured, community-building framework for developing confident, collaborative new supervisors — Oral Presentation (30mins)Enhancing the wellbeing of online doctoral researchers — Oral Presentation (30mins)Supporting the Postgraduate Taught Student Experience using a Pre-arrival Academic Questionnaire — Oral Presentation (30mins)Meddling with Purpose: Empowering Postgraduates to Co-Create and Deliver Researcher Development — Oral Presentation (30mins)

Thursday 2nd July — 14:25Values-Based Mentoring and Research Supervision: A Collaborative Intergenerational Autoethnography — Oral Presentation (30mins)Preliminary Findings from an Instrument Examining Postgraduate Students’ Mental Health Experiences: A Data-Driven Path to Take Postgraduate Students from Surviving to Thriving — Oral Presentation (30mins)

Thursday 2nd July — 15:00Utilising the hidden Break Out Room as a 3rd space for pedagogical reflection in Supervisor Development — Oral Presentation (30mins)Supporting the Wellbeing and Belonging of International Postgraduate Students: A Staff-Student-Industry Collaborative Initiative — Oral Presentation (30mins)

Thursday 2nd July — 15:50Beyond emotional support: developing agency though PhD Support Groups — Oral Presentation (30mins) *followed by* Beyond deficit models: trauma-informed supervision as everyday practice in postgraduate research — Oral Presentation (30mins)Enhancing Supervision for Racially Minoritised Postgraduate Researchers — Workshop (65mins)Generative AI — Symposium (65mins)20:20 Presentations (T20a) (65mins)

Friday 3rd July — 09:15Reimagining Boundaries: Identity, Agency, and Collaboration Among Third Space Professionals in Higher Education — Oral Presentation (30mins)From Bench to Business: Navigating Research Commercialisation as a Postgraduate Researcher in Pharmaceutical Sciences — Oral Presentation (30mins)Inclusion and equality in internationally diverse postgraduate classrooms: perceptions of students and lecturers — Oral Presentation (30mins)International perspectives on postgraduate education — Symposium (105mins)

Friday 3rd July — 09:55SGSSS Core: An Innovative Cross-Institutional Collaboration for Postgraduate Researcher Training — Oral Presentation (30mins) *followed by* Liberating AI Literacy in PGR skills development at Sheffield Hallam University — Oral Presentation (30mins)Inclusion — Symposium (65mins)

Friday 3rd July — 11:20Why pursue postgraduate taught study? Motivations and expectations of home and international students in health and life sciences. — Oral Presentation (30mins) *followed by* The PGT–PGR Transition: Challenges and Opportunities — Oral Presentation (30mins)Not just pizza and doughnuts: Embedding a sense of belonging in Postgraduate Research Cultures — Workshop (65mins)Internationalisation — Symposium (65mins)

Friday 3rd July — 13:15Reimagining Postgraduate Cultures: Equity and Belonging through the ASPIRE Programme — Oral Presentation (30mins)Best of both worlds?: PGR communities in and with non-HEI organisations — Oral Presentation (30mins)Doing More with Less — Symposium (65mins)

Friday 3rd July — 13:50Reconfiguring doctoral admissions through competency: a multi-institutional ethnography of equity-in-practice — Oral Presentation (30mins)Difference is not something to overcome but to build from: the importance of intercultural sensitivity training for PGR supervisors. — Oral Presentation (30mins)

Friday 3rd July — 14:35Towards an Inclusive Academy: Co-Creating Supervision Pedagogies and Practices with Postgraduate Researchers with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Neurodivergence — Oral Presentation (30mins)Empowered Postgraduate Research Students can lead substantial EDI enhancement initiatives — Oral Presentation (30mins)Making Sense of Perspectives in Doctoral Progression: A Participatory Workshop using Conceptual Mapping — Workshop (65mins)20:20 Presentations (T20b) (65mins)

Friday 3rd July — 15:10Beyond the Project: An Approach To Co-creating Inclusive PGR Development Discussions for Supervisors and PGRs — Oral Presentation (30mins)Embedding Empathy: PPIE Training for Postgraduate Cancer Students — Oral Presentation (30mins)

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