2. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor Kate Marsh Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research Postgraduate Research Induction

3. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
800 staff and 350 postgraduate researchers
School of the Arts
School of Histories, Languages & Cultures
School of Law & Social Justice
University of Liverpool Management School

4. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Histories, Languages & Cultures (HLC)
Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology
Modern Languages & Cultures
History
Irish Studies
Politics
School of Law & Social Justice (SLSJ)
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Law
School of the Arts (SoTA)
Architecture
Communication & Media
English
Music
Philosophy
University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS)
Organisation & Management
Economics, Finance & Accounting
Marketing & Operations

5. Embarking on your PhD at the University of Liverpool
Key administrative contacts:
Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research and the PGR Development Team
School Directors of Postgraduate Research (SDPRs) and the School PGR Administration Teams
iii. Departmental Directors of Postgraduate Research Students (DDPRs)
iv. Your supervisory team

6. Other important contacts:
Liverpool Doctoral College
PGR Development: responsible for delivering research training and development activities
The PGR Student Team: manages student records and administration
The Guild of Students
Support and Advice Services

7. Your doctoral research
Essential to this is your relationship with your supervisory team
University regulations require all full-time students to record a minimum of 12 formal meetings with their supervisor each year. These should be recorded via the PGR Toolbox and signed off throughout the year, and on average 1 per month (part-time students are required to record a minimum of six formal meetings p.a.)
The supervisory meetings record provides a system to help you manage your research with input from your supervisor 
Before each formal meeting, you will need to set an agenda for the meeting and targets for your future research
At the meeting, you and your supervisor can then view and discuss the agenda and targets, amend the targets as necessary and sign them off
Annual Progress Monitoring: applies to all PGR students and will start on or around 1 June 2017 and end on 1 September Designed to ensure that you are making progress as expected

8. Your first year: key milestones
Registration
Review after three months of registration: preparation of a ‘project plan’ to be submitted to your DDPR and completion of the Development Needs Analysis Form and Training Plan with your supervisor
Annual Progress Monitoring to confirm (or not) initial registration for the PhD (May−July 2017)
Annual Progress Monitoring involves completion of the APR form (via Liverpool Life) and an independent review of your work by an Independent Progress Assessment Panel (IPAP) comprising two members of academic staff who are not in your supervisory team
As part of this process PGRs give a 20-minute paper on an aspect of their work to colleagues and fellow PGRs in their department and submit an extended piece of writing for review by the IPAP. The Internal Review is organised by your Departmental Director of Postgraduate Research (please consult him/her for details).

9. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Your PhD is not confined to your research project alone — it is the opportunity to develop new skills and enhance existing ones as part of your continuous development as a research professional.
LiNK scheme
HSS PGR Development Fund

10. Liverpool Doctoral College (LDC)
Launched in September 2015
The emphasis is on student choice: training is not compulsory but PGRs are encouraged to select what they need in order to ensure successful completion of their doctoral project and to enhance their development as a researcher at doctoral level and beyond
The LDC provides an institutional framework allowing PGRs to select what they need
A central tenet of the LDC is PGRs developing their own programme of training, development and activities (e.g. placements, public engagement events) through completion of the Development Needs Analysis Form (over the first three months of registration)
Postgraduate Researcher Week, 10–14 October 2016

11. Doctoral Training Partnerships
North West Doctoral Training Centre
1st cohort in studentships
North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership
1st cohort in studentships per year

12. Postgraduate community
Local events & seminars
Interdisciplinary research themes & networks
Website and communications
Twitter
Mentoring
livuniHSS_PGR

13. Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Themes
Digital Humanities
AHRC Digital Panopticon
Centre for Architecture and Visual Arts
Institute of Cultural Capital
Risk, Security and Conflict
N8 Policing
Sustainable Cities
Heseltine Institute
Un-free labour
Centre for the Study of International Slavery
Politics, History, Law, Sociology, Criminology
Heritage
Combining strengths including Archaeology, History, Languages

14. Heseltine Institute of Public Policy
Research Centres
Centre for the Study of International Slavery
Centre for Architecture & the Visual Arts
India in the World
Centre for Health, Arts & Sciences
Charity Law & Policy Research Unit
Centre for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
Heseltine Institute of Public Policy
& Practice
Merseyside Agility Centre
Eighteenth-Century Worlds

15. Research Project Lifecycle
Horizon Scanning, Networking, Scoping
Project development and submission
Award and establishment of project
Active Project
Outcomes and outputs
Promotion and Communication

16. ANY QUESTIONS?