Postgraduate Research Forum
The Society has a forum to help and support all its Masters and PhD student members, to give guidance and advice about study, life as a postgraduate student, useful books, and spiritual issues raised by postgraduate study.
The coordinator of the forum is Ryan Topping (ryan.topping *at* theology.ox.ac.uk). Ryan would like to build a directory of the postgraduate student members of the Society, with names, email addresses, institutions, PhD or MA course title, and research interests, so please contact him if you would like to be included in this.

Postgraduate Books

One of the aims of the postgraduate forum is to provide help with research matters for its research students, the following books are not meant to be an exhaustive list and there are other excellent books available, but these books are a short selection of the type of books available for postgraduates:

  • Becker, Lucinda How to Manage your Postgraduate Course (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillian, 2004)
  • Craswell, Gail Writing for Academic Success, A Postgraduate Guide (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2005)
  • Cryer, Pat The Research Student's Guide to Success (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2000) second edition
  • Dunleavy, Patrick Authoring a PhD (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillian, 2003)
  • Fairbairn, G J and Winch, C Reading, Writing and Reasoning (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 1996) second edition
  • Fisher, Alec The Logic of Real Arguments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) second edition
  • Greetham, Bryan How to Write Better Essays (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
  • Hart, Chris Doing a Literature Review (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 1998)
  • Levin, Peter Write Great Essays! (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2004) Martinich, A. P., Philosophical Writing (Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1996)
  • Mounsey, Chris Essays and Dissertations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
  • Murray, Rowena How to Write a Thesis (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2002)
  • Pirie, David How to Write Critical Essays (London: Routledge, 1985)
  • Tinkler, Penny and Jackson, Carolyn The Doctoral Examination Process (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2004)
  • van den Brink-Budgen, Roy Critical Thinking for Students (Oxford: How To Books Ltd, 2000) third edition
  • van Eemeren, Frans et al Argumentation (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2002)
  • Wisker, Gina The Good Supervisor (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillian, 2005)

Previous Conferences

Previous postgraduate forum conferences were held in March 2007, August 2006, March 2006, September 2005, March 2005 and September 2004. The conferences include papers and workshops from established academics in the Society and papers given by students. For example, Dr Jacqui Stewart gave a workshop entitled PhD viva management [Download paper]

Next Conference: - 5th September 2008, Westcott House, Cambridge

The next postgraduate research conference will take place on 5th September 2008, Westcott House, Cambridge, before the start of the main SSCE conference. Students in Christian Ethics are encouraged to give short papers. Students who are interested in attending or want to give a paper about their research are encouraged to contact Ryan as soon as possible please.

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