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Scholarships event celebrates the amazing diversity and calibre of postgraduate research at Bristol 23 June 2025 Congratulations to the Bristol Doctoral College for delivering an engaging multi-faceted event in celebration of our community of around 200 PGR scholars last week.

Be More Empowered for Success PGR: Recent event successes 7 July 2025 The Be More Empowered for Success PGR programme has wrapped up for 2024/25, finishing on a high with the hugely successful and inspiring Be Empowered: Transforming Academic Expertise into Career Success event, and the fun badminton social: Shuttlecocks and Sandwiches.
Scholarships event celebrates the amazing diversity and calibre of postgraduate research at Bristol 23 June 2025 Congratulations to the Bristol Doctoral College for delivering an engaging multi-faceted event in celebration of our community of around 200 PGR scholars last week.
Compelling research on women and media in Northern India bags first prize in Three Minute Thesis competition 4 June 2025 University of Bristol PhD student, Oroosa Anwar, took first place in a closely fought competition that sees researchers present their work in just three minutes.
Three minutes. One big idea 23 May 2025 What can you do with just three minutes? Boil an egg, make the perfect cuppa, or... explain a PhD?
Speakers announced for Be Empowered event 12 May 2025 Be Empowered: Transforming Academic Expertise into Career Success, an event to celebrate diversity, welcomes three speakers from industry and academia. Read on for more information.
Building cross-CDT relationships at World Cafe Knowledge Exchange event 11 March 2025 Over 30 PhD and EngD students gathered at We the Curious on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, for an engaging World Café Knowledge Exchange event.
Applications are now open for this year’s University of Bristol Three Minute Thesis Competition! 6 March 2025 An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take 9 hours to present? Your time limit? 3 minutes.
New blog post - Ten Tips for the Mental Gymnastics of Writing your Dissertation into a Book by Kate Holmes 5 March 2025 For me, it wasn’t the proposal stage of turning my dissertation into a book that was tricky, but the rewriting. My book is very similar to my dissertation, particularly when it comes to the broad structure. I thought this meant it would be a relatively quick and easy exercise. But, it was harder than I anticipated because the writing was good enough for examination, but not for wider publication. It wasn’t a total rewrite but a shift in emphasis and expression. What follows are my tips based on my experience from an arts and humanities perspective…
Meet the 2024/25 Be More Empowered for Success PGR Advocates 24 February 2025 The Be More Empowered for Success PGR Programme, established in 2022, has developed a programme of activities and events aimed at supporting an increased sense of belonging and connection among home Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic postgraduate researchers in the University. We had a chat with the group's Advocates to learn more about their experiences running the group.
Two new video series shine a light on the postgraduate researcher experience 31 January 2025 The Bristol Doctoral College, with support from the Careers Service and the Global Engagement Division, has developed two video series focused on the postgraduate research (PGR) student journey.