British Library Doctoral Open Day: British & European Collections 1600-1950 (26th June 2023)

Come and explore the Library and its services, as well as the amazing Western Heritage collections alongside curators and reference specialists. Learn more about modern archives and manuscripts, and explore the Library’s rich printed and digital collections. This day will appeal to all researchers undertaking PhDs with a particular focus on British and European history, …

Get involved for a chance to win! Sussex Doc Fest, 5-9 June

SussexDocFest, the annual Doctoral Festival, returns this June, bringing together the doctoral community to showcase and celebrate the diversity, depth, and importance of your work. Taking place over five days (Monday 05 - Friday 09 June), there will be a range of online and in-person events on offer and lots of opportunities to take part.We'll be sharing the full …

One-to-one careers appointments for PhD researchers

Did you know that the university offers all PhD researchers one-to-one careers appointments, which can be used for: career exploration and planning CV feedback and application review applying for work opportunities and further study interview preparation, including mock interviews You can make an appointment directly with the careers consultant for your School by emailing them. …

Call for Adam Weiler Doctoral Impact Award nominees

Nominations for the 2023 Adam Weiler Award are now open, offering £1,000 towards research for PhD researchers who show the potential to make an outstanding impact with their work. Following the continued success of the award in 2022, we are pleased to offer a main prize of £1,000 towards research and a runner-up prize of £500 in each of the three academic disciplines plus a new, fourth …

The Brilliant Club – PhD and ECR opportunities – 2023-24

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.  The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically …

The Brilliant Club webinar: Becoming a tutor – Webinar on Tuesday 04 April

The Brilliant Club works with schools and universities across the UK. We mobilise the Masters and PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. In this information webinar, you will learn about what we do at The Brilliant Club, why we exist and how …

Up for a challenge? Join the 3MT competition and deliver your research in just 3 minutes!

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition is back at Sussex for 2023! The final will take place on Thursday 08 June, as part of the Doctoral School’s Festival of Doctoral Research. 3MT is an academic competition developed by the University of Queensland that challenges doctoral researchers to describe their research in only three minutes to a …

Call for Participants: The Sussex Humanities Lab PhD Fun/Play Spring Symposium

Call for Participants: The Sussex Humanities Lab PhD Fun/Play Spring Symposium 'Experimental, Interactive and Playful Research Methodologies' Sussex Humanities Lab (SHL) is hosting a postgraduate-led symposium, focusing on the theme of experimental, interactive, playful and fun research methdologies and approaches. The symposium will take place at the Sussex Humanities Lab on Tuesday 25th April, between …

Call for applications for 2023 British Library PhD Placement Scheme

Opportunity for PhD students Current PhD students are invited to apply to the British Library PhD Placement Scheme. Placement projects are offered from a variety of areas across the Library for 3 months or part-time equivalent, to be undertaken from June 2023 onwards. Many of the projects are suitable for partial or full remote working. …

Applications for the 2023 BFWG Academic Doctoral Awards are now open!

The competition for the British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG) annual academic awards is now open!   One of BFWG’s main aims is to support women studying in higher education, to advance their work and create opportunities for career development. The British Federation of Women Graduates academic awards are for women who will be in, …