Friendship, rest, collaboration, and slowness need to be part of a collective reframing of success and failure in the PhD and beyond. The impulse to entangle our identities with our work is a powerful one, but when this consumes everything else that we are, we also damage ourselves, our relationships, our worlds and the work itself. Maintaining lives, communities, interests and activities outside of the university and workplace is necessary to surviving a PhD, but it is more important than this, it is part of just being. They are vital for keeping the PhD in perspective, and for rooting us in places that we do belong where so often the university does not offer this security.
Author: PGF Committee
Looking back at the PGF Twitter Conference
In any usual academic year, one of the highlights is attending conferences. Whether it’s to present new findings and ideas, being in the audience for presentations jotting down notes, whipping out your phone to snap a slide, asking questions or networking with other researchers in your field conferences are an annual gathering we look forward…
Turning experiences into research: A conversation with Christy Hehir about tourism’s role in conservation
Social Research Council). My environmental psychology-based PhD research collaborates with leading tour operators and international wildlife charities to measure when and why tourists donate to charity.
PGF@home Creative Research Week 24th – 26th June 2020
We launched our first Creative Research Week at the end of June calling on our Twitter community of Postgraduate Geographers to share their research in a creative way. Be that through photography, poetry, videography or interpretive dance! We were excited to see what would be shared on Twitter and we were not disappointed. A big…
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Twitter Conference 2020 – Schedule now live!
UPDATE: The schedule for the conference, which runs from Tuesday 25th of August to Thursday 27th of August, is now available! Click 👉here👈 to download the schedule. We’ve also produced a comprehensive audience guide – available here. What is the PGF Twitter Conference? This conference is an opportunity for PhD students in geography and related…
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Research Week – 24th-26th June 2020
Research Week is an opportunity to share a brief snapshot of your research, in a creative way! How you represent your research is up to you, but your tweets could include photos from previous fieldwork experiences, drawings of your findings or a poem relating your research journey. When you write your posts, be sure to…
A talk on literary geography with the scientific advisor
This blog post is written by Milena Morozova, who is a postgraduate student at Moscow State University, Russia. Following a conversation between Milena and Professor Vladimir Kalutskov (Moscow State University), they introduce us to an interesting and developing field in geography – literary geography.
Postgraduate experiences of convening a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
This blog post contains some reflections from members of the geographical postgraduate community on their personal experiences of organising an RGS-IBG conference session.
5 reasons to consider attending a conference as a masters student
In this post Aimee Morse, our Masters’ Rep, reflects on some of the benefits of attending a conference during your masters degree.
Reflections from 2019 Mid-term Conference, MMU
The 2020 Mid-term conference will be held at University of Glasgow, on April 30th and May 1st. To give you a flavour of what you might expect, here, Adora Udechukwu, a delegate at the 2019 Mid-term conference in Manchester, shares some reflections on her experience.