The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Kate Marsh Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research Postgraduate Research Induction

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences 800 staff and 350 postgraduate researchers School of the Arts School of Histories, Languages & Cultures School of Law & Social Justice University of Liverpool Management School

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences School of Histories, Languages & Cultures (HLC) Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology Modern Languages & Cultures History Irish Studies Politics School of Law & Social Justice (SLSJ) Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Law School of the Arts (SoTA) Architecture Communication & Media English Music Philosophy University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS) Organisation & Management Economics, Finance & Accounting Marketing & Operations

Embarking on your PhD at the University of Liverpool Key administrative contacts: Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research and the PGR Development Team School Directors of Postgraduate Research (SDPRs) and the School PGR Administration Teams iii. Departmental Directors of Postgraduate Research Students (DDPRs) iv. Your supervisory team

Other important contacts: Liverpool Doctoral College PGR Development: responsible for delivering research training and development activities The PGR Student Team: manages student records and administration The Guild of Students Support and Advice Services http://www.liv.ac.uk/student-administration/research/pgr-handbook/

Your doctoral research Essential to this is your relationship with your supervisory team University regulations require all full-time students to record a minimum of 12 formal meetings with their supervisor each year. These should be recorded via the PGR Toolbox and signed off throughout the year, and on average 1 per month (part-time students are required to record a minimum of six formal meetings p.a.) The supervisory meetings record provides a system to help you manage your research with input from your supervisor  Before each formal meeting, you will need to set an agenda for the meeting and targets for your future research At the meeting, you and your supervisor can then view and discuss the agenda and targets, amend the targets as necessary and sign them off Annual Progress Monitoring: applies to all PGR students and will start on or around 1 June 2017 and end on 1 September 2017. Designed to ensure that you are making progress as expected

Your first year: key milestones Registration Review after three months of registration: preparation of a ‘project plan’ to be submitted to your DDPR and completion of the Development Needs Analysis Form and Training Plan with your supervisor Annual Progress Monitoring to confirm (or not) initial registration for the PhD (May−July 2017) Annual Progress Monitoring involves completion of the APR form (via Liverpool Life) and an independent review of your work by an Independent Progress Assessment Panel (IPAP) comprising two members of academic staff who are not in your supervisory team As part of this process PGRs give a 20-minute paper on an aspect of their work to colleagues and fellow PGRs in their department and submit an extended piece of writing for review by the IPAP. The Internal Review is organised by your Departmental Director of Postgraduate Research (please consult him/her for details).

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Your PhD is not confined to your research project alone — it is the opportunity to develop new skills and enhance existing ones as part of your continuous development as a research professional. engage@liverpool LiNK scheme HSS PGR Development Fund

Liverpool Doctoral College (LDC) Launched in September 2015 The emphasis is on student choice: training is not compulsory but PGRs are encouraged to select what they need in order to ensure successful completion of their doctoral project and to enhance their development as a researcher at doctoral level and beyond The LDC provides an institutional framework allowing PGRs to select what they need https://www.liv.ac.uk/doctoral-college/ A central tenet of the LDC is PGRs developing their own programme of training, development and activities (e.g. placements, public engagement events) through completion of the Development Needs Analysis Form (over the first three months of registration) Postgraduate Researcher Week, 10–14 October 2016

Doctoral Training Partnerships North West Doctoral Training Centre www.nwdtc.ac.uk 1st cohort in 2011 70 studentships North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership www.nwcdtp.ac.uk 1st cohort in 2014 50 studentships per year

Postgraduate community Local events & seminars Interdisciplinary research themes & networks Website and email communications Twitter Mentoring livuniHSS_PGR

Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Themes Digital Humanities AHRC Digital Panopticon Centre for Architecture and Visual Arts Institute of Cultural Capital Risk, Security and Conflict N8 Policing Sustainable Cities Heseltine Institute Un-free labour Centre for the Study of International Slavery Politics, History, Law, Sociology, Criminology Heritage Combining strengths including Archaeology, History, Languages

Heseltine Institute of Public Policy Research Centres Centre for the Study of International Slavery Centre for Architecture & the Visual Arts India in the World Centre for Health, Arts & Sciences Charity Law & Policy Research Unit Centre for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Heseltine Institute of Public Policy & Practice Merseyside Agility Centre Eighteenth-Century Worlds

Research Project Lifecycle Horizon Scanning, Networking, Scoping Project development and submission Award and establishment of project Active Project Outcomes and outputs Promotion and Communication

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