Opportunities for Humanities PhDs

A company writing teaching materials for PhD students wants to interview a couple of Humanities PhDs who have made a transition to work outside academia. Does anyone know a relatively recent PhD in this category whom we could approach?

Suggestions to terry.jones@kcl.ac.uk

Whiling away the long winter evenings

A number of people have drifted off for the holiday period now, but those of you left might enjoy this almost festive clip (well, it’s got snow in it).

If Technology is getting you down

The sketch above has proved popular on the Graduate School Virtual Learning Environment. I suppose it shows that anxiety about technology is nothing new.

VLE and Graduate Lounges Update

First, thanks for using the Graduate School Virtual Learning Environment this term. We’ve continued to update the resources, especially in the Postgraduate Online Common Room. Last week’s Simpson’s Random Quote Generator proved popular, so we’re keeping it for another week. We’ve also got two Christmas games.

In other news, the Lounges at Strand and Waterloo are now open. We will give more information about further lounges as soon as we have it.

If you are registering for one of the Lounges, could you kindly include your student ID number and, ideally, your course and site? This does make your application a little easier to process.

Finally, please be patient if it takes a little time to get your application sorted; there are a large number of postgraduate students to deal with and, inevitably, there can be delays.

Ian McEwan @ KCL

Author Ian McEwan will read from his acclaimed novel Atonement at the College on Wednesday 5 December. The book, recently made into a film directed by Joe Wright starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, features nursing scenes at St Thomas’ Hospital.Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).

The Reading will take place at 12.15 in the Great Hall at the Strand Campus and is open to all staff and students of King’s College London.

Organised by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, Ian McEwan will be introduced by Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, Head of the School.
 

Update on Graduate Lounges

If you are registering for one of the Graduate Lounges, could you kindly supply more details apart from your name please? Ideally, let us know your student ID number and your course and/or department.