PhD Colloquium 2011-12

The PhD Colloquium provides PhD students the opportunity to present their own research within a friendly environment of fellow students and academics. All PhD students are welcome to give a presentation whenever they want to get feedback and share the different stages of their research. We also call on all our PhD colleagues to actively participate in the colloquium and share their thoughts as well as to support with others in the colloquium. Presentations are typically either a solo presentation or a panel discussion on a specific topic.

Even if you are not a PhD student yourself you are free to attend and see the current ongoing research of PhD students within the department.

Requirements

To ensure that all the sessions proceed smoothly, there are some basic requirements that presenters must observe:

  1. The presenter has to be accompanied by a discussant during her/his session.
  2. The presenter should hand in the title and abstract of the paper as well as the name of the discussant at least one week before her/his session.
  3. The presenter must also allow her/his discussant to have at least one week to go through the paper.

Last but not least, we ask the presenter to submit a short version of her/his CV in order to inform the audience of her/his academic background as well as her/his current research interests.

Although it is organised by and for PhD students in the Department of Government, the PhD colloquium is not entirely exclusive. PhD students from other departments in the University of Essex or from other universities whose research works fall within the field of political science, political theory, and discourse analysis are also welcome.

When and Where

The PhD Colloquium is held at 17:00 every Wednesday in room 5A.118. Each session lasts one hour (20 minutes for the presenter, 10 minutes for the invited discussant, and 30 minutes for open discussion). View the schedule of presentations for this Spring Term.

Contact

The co-ordinators of the Colloquium are PhD students from the Department. This year's the task is held by Liam McGrath (lfmcgr@essex.ac.uk), Shu Shimizu (sshimi@essex.ac.uk) and Onur Yildiz (oyildi@essex.ac.uk).

 

Last modified on 28 February 2012