Birkbeck PhD Awards April 2019

Birkbeck Research Degrees awarded in April 2019

Birkbeck awards over 100 PhDs each year. In April 2019, 11 Birkbeck Doctoral Researchers were awarded a PhD for their work in the following areas:

School of Arts

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND HUMANITIES

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART

School of Business, Economics and Informatics

DEpartment of Computer Science and Information Systems

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT

School of Law

Department of Law

School of Science

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

DEPARTMENT OF History, Classics and Archaeology

  • 1 PhD in Medieval and Modern History
  • 1 PhD in Ancient History, Classics and Archaeology

BPSN Bulletin

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The following bulletin is provided by the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network (BPSN) of which Birkbeck is a member. Our membership of the BPSN provides Birkbeck PhD students with an expanded range of training and development opportunities.

This Issue:

  • Opportunities – First Mondays: Networking for Entrepreneurs
  • Book now! May courses available
  • June courses

OPPORTUNITIES

First Mondays: Networking for Entrepreneurs
3 June 2019

Everyone is welcome at our monthly networking evenings. Be inspired by successful entrepreneurs and form lasting connections with peers that could help you start or grow your business.Visit UCL Innovation & Enterprise for more information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/events/2019/jun/first-mondays-networking-entrepreneurs-june

Places Still Available in May!

8 May 2019: Public Engagement: Developing Your Own Activity KCL
This half-day workshop will allow you to share your public engagement ideas and work with other participants to critique and improve them. Focus will be on the practicalities of public engagement.

8 May 2019: Format your Thesis UCL
Bring your own laptop or Mac to this hands-on session and learn the essential skills to format and edit your content in Word.

9 May 2019: Organising Successful Academic Events SAS
This session runs through the key areas of organising a successful academic event. We will discuss the different event types, public engagement, impact, timing, venues, audiences, speakers and finance.

15 May 2019: Ethical issues: The use of deception in research LSE *NEW*
Deception is a common feature of some social science research approaches yet absent or even forbidden by professional norms in other closely related social sciences. What is deception?

16 May 2019: Translation and Interpreting – IMLR Graduate Forum SAS
Forum members meet once a month during term-time to share and discuss their work in an informal setting, and invites students to present their research and host film screenings, reading groups and workshops.

16 May 2019: Manage Your PhD Research Data (Data series: 2 of 3) LSE *NEW*
In this practical workshop the LSE Research Data Librarian will give you essential tips for collecting and organising your PhD data so you can locate what you need with ease.

18 May 2019: IMLR Saturday Research Training Workshop: Researching Multilingually. Possibilities and Complexities SAS
The workshop aims to support developing researcher awareness with regard to practices of researching multilingually and in this way, work towards a more clearly articulated ‘researching multilingually’ methodology.

20 May 2019: Cross Purposes: Networking with ease UCL
The workshop is designed to be an event that leads a group though ideas, models and conversations resulting in a greater sense of rapport within a group.

28 May 2019: Specific Heat Capacity – Voice training UCL
Specific Heat Capacity is a three-hour voice workshop based on theatrical as well as practical experience, and aimed towards anyone wishing to develop their vocal ability.

30 May 2019: The PhD Viva in the Humanities and Social Sciences SAS
This session will look at a range of practical matters including choosing examiners, and the roles and strategies of the student, the examiners and the supervisor.

June courses

3 Jun 2019: Scientific classification and scientific realism – Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies UCL
In this session we will take a look at an important and ongoing debate in contemporary philosophy of science: are we justified in accepting the most secure findings of scientists “at face value”?

3 Jun 2019: Publishing and Archiving Research Data (Data series: 3 of 3) LSE
This workshop will give an introduction to the current and quickly developing data publishing and archiving landscape and why it matters to researchers (including funder requirements).

3 Jun 2019: IMLR Saturday Research Training Workshop: Before, during and after the PhD SAS
This session covers publishing in the modern languages; the PhD viva, before, during and after; organising a conference and giving a conference paper; applying for an academic job, writing CVs, interviews.

12 Jun 2019: Critical Thinking and the Researcher: An Exploration UCL
Critical thinking is one of the higher abilities looked for in the research degree candidate. The greater understanding and application of critical thinking, the better the researcher.

13 Jun 2019: Your PhDilemmas: One-to-One Sessions for Research Students UCL
You are the manager of your PhD. If you want to explore ways of re-gaining control, come along and chat to Dr Louise Baron on a private and confidential one-to-one basis.

Birkbeck PhD and MPhilStud Awards: March 2019

Birkbeck Research Degrees awarded in March 2019

Birkbeck awards over 100 PhDs each year. In March 2019, 12 Birkbeck Doctoral Researchers were awarded a PhD or MPhilStud for their work in the following areas:

School of Arts

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART

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  • 2 PhDs in Humanities and Cultural Studies

School of Business, Economics and Informatics

DEPARTMENT OF economics, mathematics and statistics

  • 1 PhD in Economics, Finance and Mathematical Finance

School of Science

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

DEPARTMENT OF Applied linguistics and communication

DEPARTMENT OF History, Classics and Archaeology

  • 1 PhD in Medieval and Modern History

DEPARTMENT OF Philosophy

  • 1 MPhilStud in Philosophical Studies

DEPARTMENT OF Psychosocial studies

Birkbeck PhD Awards: February 2019

Birkbeck PhDs awarded in February 2019

Birkbeck awards over 100 PhDs each year. In February 2019, 18 Birkbeck Doctoral Researchers were awarded a PhD or MPhilStud for their work in the following areas:

School of Arts

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART

DEPARTMENT OF eNGLISH AND HUMANITIES

School of Business, Economics and Informatics

DEPARTMENT OF oRGANIZATIONAL pSYCHOLOGY

School of Law

School of Science

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT of earth and planetary sCIENCES 

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

DEPARTMENT OF Applied linguistics and communication

DEPARTMENT OF Philosophy

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS

  • 1 PhD in Political Sociology

DEPARTMENT OF Psychosocial studies