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Research in Practice

Research in Practice training forms a core component of the student journey, meant to apply research skills in different contexts, to collaborate across boundaries, to develop accessible communication skills and research impacts, and to engage in personal and professional development.

This training will enrich students’ own research by being included in the dissertation itself. Students will be required to include a chapter on knowledge exchange, perhaps reflecting learning and skill acquisition and application from the Research in Practice training and/or the placement (e.g. policy report, industry solution, accessible science communication, or reflections).

In the first year of the PhD, the Research in Practice series (10 sessions) is usually held on the first Wednesday afternoon of each month. Topics include professional and career-building skill-acquisition workshops, talks by PhDs in various non-academic fields and jobs (e.g., government, education, industry), and meetings with relevant organisations with the possibility to create links and partnerships. All students funded by SEDarc are required to attend these mandatory sessions as part of their study contact hours, see the Training webpage for more information.

In the second and third year, students will be offered various options and opportunities to deepen their Research in Practice skills through live sessions held once a month.

We also host a Community of Practice, with non-mandatory sessions held twice a year, which aims to bring together SEDarc students who self-identify as from diverse ethnic backgrounds and/or other under-represented groups to share and discuss in an informal setting, best practices and experiences that promote inclusion and diversity in your PhD journey.