Introduction
The PGR Development Programme provides graduate students with research skills training and teacher training, and aligns with the PGR programme at the University of Liverpool. The programme workshops are designed and delivered by the Academic Enhancement Centre (AEC) at XJTLU. The PGR Development Programme includes two components:
- Personal and Professional Development (PPD) [aka General doctoral skills training]
- Core Training [aka Discipline-specific training]
AEC delivers/organises the PPD workshops and has input into some workshops for the latter component. Both compulsory and optional workshops are run (and/or repeated) throughout the academic year. The materials for the programme are available on the PGR ICE site, including resources for training for new supervisors. For more generic information about the PGR programme, please see the PGR web-page.
At XJTLU, the PGR team also collaborates with staff in other departments and co-delivers some workshops with the Language Centre (LC) . We further liaise with the Graduate Studies Office (GSO) on administrative matters.
Exchanging ideas with PhD alumni
We were very happy to have invited three PhD alumni to come on Friday 29th April 2016, and share their really valuable experiences of doing a PhD at XJTLU, They are Dr Ma Jieming (Photo 1) (Lecturer, University of Science and Technology of Suzhou), Dr Sun Lei (Photo 2) (Civil Service, Suzhou City Planning Bureau), and Dr Huang Xiangmeng (Photo 3) (Lecturer, Changsu Institute of Technology).
Past PGR Workshops
- The PGR team thanks the students, both PhD and Masters, who have attended the PGR programme in this past semester (Feb-June 2016). Here are some snapshots of our past workshops:
- Teaching Assistant Training
- Supervisor Supervisee relationships
- Getting published – Working towards publications, including ‘Impact of Research'
Upcoming Events
For PhD students
We will repeat the core sessions, including
- Research Integrity (Ethics)
- Teaching Assistant Training
- Supervisor Supervisee relationships
- Information retrieval/Literature Review
- Getting published – Working towards publications, including ‘Impact of Research’
And we will run some new sessions, such as
- Preparing for/doing a viva
- Research methods for PhD projects
For Supervisors
- Supervisor Training Day
Seminar Presentations
“Facing the gap between language teaching and research: a perspective from a university-teacher of languages”
(14th April, 2016, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou)
"Chinese academics’ perceived ways of thinking: an educational/cultural perspective”
(26th May, 2016, Xi’an Jiangtong-Liverpool University, Suzhou)
Who to contact
If you have any queries regarding the programme, please contact the PGR team: PGR-AEC@xjtlu.edu.cn
Dr Jianmei Xie, PGR Programme Lead, (Jianmei.Xie@xjtlu.edu.cn), and Dr Henk Huijser, Educational Developer (Henk.Huijser@xjtlu.edu.cn)