Resource library

Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin (Nottingham Trent University) and Professor Julie Sheldon (Liverpool John Moores University) provide an introduction to the EDEPI Project, which is helping to increase access and participation in doctoral education. There are some useful tools and resources, linked below, which have emerged from the work and which are free to access.

This session, recorded on 21st April 2023, examines the impact of ChatGPT, and other developments in AI, on postgraduate education.

The panel discuss how generative AI, including ChatGPT, might challenge and enhance postgraduate work, and in particular writing as assessment, learning and digital capabilities in increasingly digital world and the ethical challenges disruptive technologies bring.

This framework is an output from a Collaborative Enhancement Project supported and funded by the QAA.

Key findings from UK Council for Graduation Education (UKCGE) research on how UKRI could better support research supervision.

A study of the doctoral examination policies of 127 UK Higher Education Institutions

A discussion of Thesis Committees and their uses at UCL

This report allows readers to see inside the structures and strategies which shape institutional approaches to doctoral education in the UK and Ireland.

The UK Research Supervision Survey is the UKCGE’s national survey offering those involved in research supervision an opportunity to share their experiences of supervising doctoral candidates.

This paper investigates whether there are centrally-set numerical limits on numbers of doctoral candidates per supervisor

A video update on the University of Liverpool’s PGR Wellbeing Improvement Project