Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE DOC6057

 
TITLE Struggling with Your PhD

 
UM LEVEL D - Doctoral Workshops/Symposium

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS Not Applicable

 
DEPARTMENT Doctoral School

 
DESCRIPTION Life within a graduate programme is defined by good, bad and ugly days. This workshop will provide opportunities for participants to interact with graduates who have successfully completed their doctoral programme, both locally and abroad, in person or from a distance, full- or part-time. Through such encounters of the successful type, participants will critically reflect on their own doctoral biographies, with a view to co-creating signposts for successful doctoral journeys across multiple realities.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Identify and name the struggles in the Ph.D. process
Analyse how the struggles are blocking productivity
Apply supervisor’s and graduates’ wisdom and experiences to address individual as well as common struggles
Explore the possibility of building a support infrastructure which is more permanent and collective

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES Timetable Details - Please click here for further details.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Workshop

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Attendance No 100%

 
LECTURER/S Carmel P. Borg

 

 
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