THE DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINAR

The purpose of this R-credit seminar is to support intermediate PhD students as they embark on advanced research projects. It begins and ends with workshops for doctoral students at the earliest stages of their dissertations: its meetings in weeks 2, 3, and 4 are devoted to the dissertation prospectus, and its final ones in weeks 11, 12, and 13 are for sharing dissertation chapter drafts or research plans. In the other weeks, the seminar expands to include interested post-MPhil doctoral students at any stage, and focuses on the process of publishing in academic journals, culminating in the completion of a submittable article draft. Most important of all, the seminar provides an opportunity for community-building at a time when graduate students are not generally in coursework together, offered in a spirit of mutually affirming collaboration.