Online teaching and pedagogy

This guidance document — developed by the Collaborative Research for Online Postgraduate Studies Network (CROPSNet) — identifies key pinch points across the online PGT student journey and sets out evidence‑informed good practice, with a companion self-assessment tool is intended to support translation into action at programme level.

This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Diverse Minds, aims to explore the link between mental health, wellbeing, and resilience.

Traditionally doctoral candidates studied on campus and, fieldwork apart, were in close proximity to supervisors throughout their studies. But in recent years there has been a rapid growth in the numbers of students undertaking most of their studies off-‐campus, often at a very considerable distance from the institution