Welcome to Queen Mary!

If you've just started your PhD at Queen Mary, then welcome to the University, and welcome to this blog! I hope you have a great few years here. If you're not a new student, then welcome to the new academic year - I hope you managed to get a bit of a break over the summer and are looking forward to getting back to your research!

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Jo, the Development Adviser for Research Students at QM. There's a bit more info. about me and my background in the side panel. I'll be using this blog to keep QM research students informed of events going on inside and outside the college that might be of interest to you, so please check in regularly or set up an RSS feed. You might also want to look at the QM Researchers' Careers blog (see the feed on the side panel).

Also on this blog is a calendar of workshops and courses run for PhD students by the Educational & Staff Development department. You can find more information about each event by clicking on it in the calendar. If you wish to book on any courses you can do so here.

So, that's probably enough for now. Please get in touch if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns or suggestions about anything to do with your experience at QM.

Welcome to the Queen Mary PhD blog!

I've set up this blog in the hope that it will be a good way of letting people know about upcoming courses and events, and also a place where I can draw your attention to useful/interesting articles and information relevant to PhD researchers. I might even write a few things myself, if the mood takes me! I would also be very interested to include any contributions from Queen Mary PhD students, so if you find anything you think should be on here, or would like to write a post about any part of your research experience please let me know.

My intention is to update the blog at least once a week, and hopefully whenever I find new stuff to put on it. I'm new to the whole blogging thing though, so please bear with me if it's a bit patchy to start with! Any comments, feedback, advice will be gratefully received!