PhD and EdD

If you are a PhD/EdD student, or are thinking of becoming one, or if you are an early career researcher or new to research in learning and teaching in higher education, please join our supportive community. 

We host monthly events designed to give our postgraduate students and new and early-career researchers the chance to share their struggles, celebrate their successes, develop research skills, and generally support one another.   

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For more information, or if you would like to book a slot to discuss your research-in-progress at one of these sessions, please contact Dr Helen Aveyard and Dr Hossein Sadeghi-Movahed, who lead this group: haveyard@brookes.ac.uk  or h.sadeghi-movahed@brookes.ac.uk (see About Us)  

PhD/EdD Group Meet

Friday 13 November 13:00 – 14:00 GMT (Online, Via Zoom)

This will be led by Dr Sadeghi-Movahed, with guest speaker Prof Benita Olivier, Oxford Brookes University, who will discuss using AI in the doctoral research process.  

Session: AI can now draft a literature map in an afternoon, write analysis code in minutes and polish a paragraph in seconds. So what are the years of a doctorate actually for? In this session, Professor Benita Olivier, co-author of Still Yours: A Doctoral Researcher’s Guide to AI (Springer Nature), sets out a few principles for thinking about AI in your doctorate. It isn’t a how-to on tools. It covers what a doctorate is meant to build in you, why “is this building me?” is a more useful question than “is this allowed?”, and what it takes to own and defend your work when a tool helped make it.