Recently started your PhD? Find out about paid tutoring, archives and peer review at our PhD Essentials event

If you started your PhD in September you will have received lots of information from your School, your supervisors and our induction sessions, which takes a while to process! Now you're a few months in and have got to grips with the basics, it's time to explore some opportunities further afield that can enhance your …

All you need to know about peer review, from SAGE Publishing and the Hive

The Research Hive Scholars may not be stationed in the Hive space in the Library at the moment, but they are busier than ever supporting Sussex PhDers virtually. Each year, the Hive works closely with SAGE Publishing. Recently, SAGE hosted a webinar about peer review for Sussex doctoral researchers and answered questions about the peer …

Get paid tutoring and public engagement experience with the Brilliant Club

The Brilliant Club is a charity working to widen participation in higher education by putting university researchers into schools. Its Scholars Programme offers doctoral and early career researchers a meaningful, paid professional development opportunity, delivering university-style tutorials to small groups of pupils in non-selective state schools. Researchers design and deliver sessions based on their own …

Work placement: Spotify is looking for PhD scientists to help their machine learning research

Spotify is recruiting PhD researchers for paid internships next summer, working with their data scientists in London to develop and evaluate machine learning methods, build new datasets to power the next generation of machine learning research, and help improve user interactions through personalisation and discovery. The placements last for 10-13 weeks and start at the …

PhD Careers: free social sciences Business Boost Bitesize workshops from University of Surrey

If you're a social sciences researcher and you're interested in working with industry, sign up to these free workshops from the University of Surrey using the links below. Business Boost 2020 is an ESRC-funded scheme to increase business engagement among social sciences doctoral and early career researchers at SeNSS universities. For more about Business Boost …

‘Science can be nourishing but it does not have to consume you’: we talk to Sunayana Bhargava, joint winner of this year’s Adam Weiler Award, about her PhD experience and research into dark matter

The annual Adam Weiler Award goes to a doctoral researcher who shows the potential to achieve outstanding impact in their chosen field, the result of a generous donation from the family of a former Sussex student. This year, the prize was split between Sunayana and Halldor Ulfarsson (MFM/MAH). Read our interview with Halldor elsewhere on …

Digital Discovery Week 2020, 9-13 November

Digital Discovery Week (9-13 November) is a week of workshops, seminars and online opportunities to enable students and staff to experiment with new technologies, showcase examples of innovations in teaching and research at Sussex, and horizon-scan for emerging technologies which will impact our sector. For doctoral researchers, it's a chance to think about how technology …

Call for papers: Makings: Researching the Creative Industries journal on the theme of Alternativity

The editorial team of Makings: Researching the Creative Industries  journal invite researchers of all stages, including PhD, MA, and BA students, to submit 300-word abstracts for its very first issue after the relaunch of the Creative Industries cluster journal.  The theme of the issue is “Alternativity”. The concept is flexible to accommodate wide-ranging discussions around the diverse aspects of creative, media and cultural industries …

Grant opportunity for social anthropology researchers nearing the end of their PhD

The Radcliffe-Brown Fund offers financial support of up to £750 to social anthropology PGRs at British and Commonwealth universities. The aim of the award, which is jointly funded by the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), is to help young scholars in social anthropology who are handicapped by lack of …

Free webinars: First year PhD researcher? Get started with the British Library

What’s the British Library? What’s in the collection? How can I find what I need? Join them for a series of online webinars to pick up the basics and find out how to kick off your research. The British Library houses a wealth of resources for doctoral researchers, both digital and physical. In early 2021 …