IOP Graduate Lounge Opening 16th June

You are invited to attend the formal opening of the IoP’s Graduate Lounge in the Addiction Sciences Building, Denmark Hill campus on Tuesday 16th June at 12.30pm.  It will be opened officially by Institute Secretary, Richard Barnard.

Running an Arts Centre?

The Careers Group’s one day course on Careers in Arts Administration runs on 9th June. Details on www.careers.lon.ac.uk/arts

or www.careers.lon.ac.uk/facebook/arts

IT training

As part of the Connected Campus Programme, ISS is pleased to announce an expanded and enhanced IT and Information Skills training and development portfolio.

 

Highlights include an updated and expanded range of IT and iSkills short courses including email and calendar management in Outlook 2003 and 2007; Office 2007; Nvivo and SPSS; bibliographic software; and customised courses for graduate students such as Word for long documents.  These courses are available alongside the Researcher Development Programme courses on the Skills Forge system.

 

In addition to short courses, all staff and students now have ‘anytime anywhere’ access to online self paced courses from the Microsoft IT Academy.

 

Looking ahead, ISS is keen to collaborate with its new strategic training partner, QA, and graduate researchers across the College, to develop further high quality, relevant courses.

 

For further details and course booking, see the ISS training and development web pages:

 

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/training

 

Medical Training after the Doctorate?

Each year a handful of PhD’s seriously considers going into medical training. This one day course should help:

Exploring Graduate Entry into Medicine
24 February 2009-01-20
www.careers.lon.ac.uk/med

 Accelerated medical courses are designed specifically to train graduates with a non-medical degree as doctors.

This course will help you to find out about:

* Specific degrees, by talking to admissions staff, course organisers and medical students
* The major differences between the courses offered
* How to fund your medical degree
* Writing a successful application form and support statement
* The various entrance exams schools use.

The day will consist of:
* Presentations – from representatives of key medical schools
* Networking Session – with admission tutors and staff
* Medical Student panel – to which you can ask questions on what it is like to do an accelerated medical degree.

Confirmed attendees include:
Cambridge, King’s College London, Leicester, Nottingham, Swansea, Oxford, Queen Mary, Keele and Imperial.

There is also a free book on entry to medical school available at the Careers Service.

From the Graduate School

The Graduate School is going to sponsor a postgraduate researcher to attend the residential conference, ‘Beyond the Campus.’

‘Beyond the Campus: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Value of Research’ will be held between Wednesday January 28th and Friday January 30th. We have a first rate panel of speakers for the conference, drawn from many disciplines and each of considerable public reputation. 

The aim of this conference is to allow an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss both the value of their own particular research (each student will be asked to give a short 20 minute presentation in small groups of their work to date) as well as to reflect, through plenary sessions, on where exactly that research might be taking them once completed.

Given that only 50% of such students move into academic careers thereafter, a conference in which there is opportunity to think about career “beyond the campus” seems to us to be especially timely.

If you are interested please contact Prof Vaughan Robinson, Director of the Graduate School (vaughan.robinson@kcl.ac.uk) sending some details about yourself.

The conference will take place in Windsor. You can find out more details by clicking here.

The Crucible Experience

Ever wondered what a space scientist and a biologist might have in common or how an artist could help a particle physicist? Crucible is your chance to stop wondering and discover what great minds, inspiring speakers and creative thinkers can do when they spend three weekends together.

Crucible 2009 offers early-career researchers in science, technology, engineering, maths and social sciences a unique opportunity to take risks and develop new collaborations across disciplines.

For more details, click here.

Starting your Career in Science – from Lab Support UK

Lab Support Uk will be running a special session for King’s students next Tuesday 25 November at Guy’s – Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin House from 5.30 – 6.30pm.
The session will cover:
- Writing your CV
- Getting work experience
- Preparing for the interview and interviewing advice
- Tailored career ideas and suggestions focused on the group
Any questions contact laura.mackenzie@kcl.ac.uk.

Publishing lecture and workshop for humanities and social sciences on 18th Dec

We are offering you the opportunity to attend the following lecture and workshop on publishing in the humanities and social sciences.  The lecture on academic publishing is open to all researchers and academic staff working in humanities and social science disciplines, followed by an intensive workshop for postgraduate research students ONLY who are in the later stages of their PhD. 

The lecture and workshop are being facilitated by Josie Dixon who has extensive experience working in academic publishing.  The workshop will help participants to understand the process of publishing, who the decision-makers are and what they are looking for and will be of particular interest to those researchers interested in publishing their PhD thesis as a book. 

TO BOOK: please email gradtrain@kcl.ac.uk with details of whether you want to attend the lecture only or both the lecture and workshop.
18/12/08
11am – 12.30pm (lecture for research students and academic staff) FWB G79
1.30pm – 4pm
(workshop for research students only)
RDP Training Room (Room 4.14, 4th Floor, Waterloo Bridge Wing)

Viva Survivor workshop – 4 December

The History Lab is an established network for postgraduate students and new researchers in history and related disciplines.

History Lab has organised a ‘Viva Survivor’ workshop on Thursday 4 December, from 2pm – 4.30pm, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. The workshop will be led by Professor Steve King (Oxford Brookes) and will provide tips and practical advice on how to get through the PhD viva process.

To register a free place on this workshop please email history.lab@sas.ac.uk

NUS research into student parents

NUS research into student parents: online survey

We’d like to bring to your attention a major piece of research being carried out by National Union of Students into the experiences of parents studying in further and higher education.

The aim of the research is to shed light on the barriers faced by student parents, as well as to investigate the positive impact that learning can have on individuals and their families.

 

NUS is seeking further evidence of the issues facing student parents so that they can campaign for changes to improve their experience of education now and in the future.

Online survey

Anyone filling in the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win one of three £50 High St Vouchers! All survey responses are anonymous. Click here.

If you have any questions about the survey please email:studentparents@nus.org.uk