PGR Symposium

In accordance with our regulations for Annual Review of Postgraduate Research Students, attendance at the Symposium is compulsory for all registered, full-time research students (attendance is not compulsory for part-time students, or students in their writing-up period).

Presentation at the PGR Work in Progress Symposium is taken into account in the Annual Review process.  More information about the connections between Annual Review and the Symposium can be found in the Research Students Handbook.

Overview

The next School of English PGR Symposium was held on Friday 23 February 2024 in the Senate Chamber, Trent Building (09:45-17:00).

• First year students are required to attend the Symposium. They are very welcome to participate by delivering a presentation if they wish.
• Second year students must participate and deliver a paper.
• Third years are expected to chair a session at the Symposium.

Attendance at the Symposium is compulsory for full-time PhD students in the School.

The event is the centrepiece and showcase of our research students’ academic year, intellectually and socially, and brings together the School community in an important and dynamic way.

Download the 2024 Programme

Requirements
Presentations (which must not exceed the stated time) can be either 10 minutes or 5-7 minutes and aimed at a non-specialist audience. Papers will be presented to other postgraduate research students, along with members of staff from across the sections of the School. The paper does not need to be a finished piece of work. The intention is that this exercise should be useful to you as research students, both in terms of clarifying your own ideas and gaining more experience of presenting them, and in allowing you to benefit from the questions and comments of those in attendance.

Contact

Deputy Director of Graduate Studies: Dr Michael Jones
Director of Graduate Studies: Dr Andrew Harrison
Senior Administrator: Graeme Docherty