Useful Links
The Graduate Junction
The Graduate Junction aims to bring together Masters, Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers and scholars from any discipline across the globe. It aims to provide an easy way of making contact and communicating with others who share common research interests and to provide comprehensive searchable listings of information relevant to the graduate research community.
UK Research Councils Joint Skills Statement
The research councils play an important role in setting standards and identifying best practice in research training. This document sets out a joint statement of the skills that doctoral research students funded by the research councils (and others) would be expected to develop during their research training.
www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/researchcareers/jsstrainingrequirements.pdf
UK GRAD Programme
The role of the UK GRAD Programme is to support the academic sector to embed personal and professional skills development into research degree programmes. UK GRAD's vision is for all postgraduate researchers to be fully equipped and encouraged to complete their studies and to make a successful transition to their future careers.
SciSpace
The social networking site designed for scientists by scientists.
Piled Higher & Deeper (PhD Comic Strip)
Some light relief from the hard work of being a graduate student.
How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors
Originally published in 1995, this short guide written by Marie des Jardins highlights many of the issues faced by research students. Although originally written for students pursuing research degrees in Computer Science, much of the content is relevant to any discipline.
www.cs.umbc.edu/~mariedj/papers/advice.pdf
Advice on Conference Attendance
Many research students express concern about feeling awkward and uncomfortable at conferences. This is a collection of posts from other students, on how they coped.
www-personal.umich.edu/~danhorn/conference.txt
