读博生涯从来都不是孤岛,那么该如何相识、相知?

2018.03.01 11:45

IOE Building

吃了两顿免费的午餐之后,我觉得需要感谢一下让我有机会免费吃喝还带走的IOE Mentor group scheme和Centre for Doctoral Education.

前者是学生自己通过申请学校的"ChangeMaker"(变革者)项目开始的新老博士生互助活动,今天中午有一个三明治冷餐会,当然还有饼干、茶、咖啡、果汁、矿泉水。之前给我们上课的自由人老师也来了,而且还给了不少很有帮助的建议,比如在Moodle(所有学校课程的在线平台)上近期会推出summer school(夏季学校),开设在暑期的集中课程方便远程学习和兼职读书的博士生们,而且关于upgrade(升等考核)也有在陆续推出一些视频。

然后他有事就先下楼了,说拿几块饼干给CDE办公室的同事们,随后过了五分钟,他就又跑上来说:由于今晚原定的doctoral poster conference(博士生研究海报展览会)早晨才确定取消,所以食物都已经提前做好了,虽然红酒退了,但是大部分的食物都在CDE办公室。所以,要是还想吃点热的,欢迎去吃。

于是,在拿了一部分三明治到常驻的博士生自习室之后,我和小伙伴就有了炸鸡和春卷为主的第二顿午餐。

当然,随后我们还收到了CDE发来的邮件:

大雪耽误了原定的会议,可是有免费午餐吃,还是很开心!

那么具体介绍一下我们今天都做了些啥:

博士生互助小组的午餐会原本是为了聊聊接下来该怎么开展相关的互助工作而展开的,我的笔记如下(经过同意啦哈):

Today’s summary from Mentor Lunch (1 Mar)

  1. connecting the PhD students: weekly-based

  2. building up the research community culture: online and offline social events

  3. upgrading support: peer review, summer school

1.regular meet 

regular meet- every week or every two weeks in 4-5 small group

events meet- depends, but can be every month lunch panel in all mentor group

e.g. poster conference, 3MT competition (Mark), research (what method you are not using, Fiona), presenting/ at conference(how to find the conference, only attend not present, Lauren; know a couple of people also going, is it worth going?, Adam)

online meet- office hour (like every Thursday afternoon 3.00pm-4.00pm;

2.research community

Moodle forum-

Sharing what we do know (everyone can share information about everything- culture, mentor and mentee are flexible)

a. open events in spring/ summer

put some networking events on posters inside the campus, or shall we go beyond by using the eventbrite app?

3.upgrade

a. mock upgrade but more like peer review (inspired by the post-upgrade class, Lauren; technique, Fiona; summertime maybe better than Sep.)

b. RTP video online, there will be more (Mark)

c. summer school led by CDE in June (intense courses, will be found on Moodle (RTP_1718)

简单来说,我们讨论下来是要线上线下同步进行,帮助入学IOE的博士生从常规的每周交流(也有每两周交流一次的)、专题式的讲座(研究伦理、课程推荐、如何参加学术会议、如何准备升等)以及定期组织线上版聊。

我的两个小想法是这样的:

a. if every week/two weeks mentors get together one-hour to develop one topic (like ethics, upgrading, networking, conferences), the production can be a forum page on Moodle (or we make a pdf version, relevant questions can also be discussed/added in the one-page pdf. Gradually, we may get a brochure for beginners at different events.

b. if we produce a monthly newsletter (by mailing list, talking about what happened this month and what conference/seminar/ course is recommended next month; by Facebook, Twitter) , would it helpful to pay it forward?

我前阵子听一个音频说到开会最重要的是产生会议纪要,这次边听大家讲边记录的时候,的确感受到了这件事的意义。当然因为是氛围比较轻松的午餐会,没有具体落实到谁做什么的具体分工安排和什么时间完成这项任务。

毕竟博士生互助虽然是个资源参加的活动,但能够形成一个稳定的活动,就需要一定的制度和规范,毕竟能够持久做下去并且逐渐扩大的互助会靠的不是一两个人的好心和能力,而是行之有效的分工和逐渐完善的体系。

下次再说CDE,我健身之前,要先去喝一波下午茶了。(主要刚刚有同学推门进来,隔壁教室有从CDE拿过来的食物哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈)


注:

*博士生们把研究做成一张A1大小的海报,然后贴在墙上,自己大部分时候站旁边,大家边吃边走讨论各自研究的会议。

相关链接:

1.UCL对开启博士生互助小组的四年级博士生Lauren Clark的采访:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/students/102017/24-10-2017-7-questions-with-lauren-clark

2.与自由人老师相关的推送:

很少有博士能改变世界 | 伦敦求学记7

欲读博士,先修此课 | 伦敦求学记

You never finish a PhD, you only start one 你永远读不完博士,你只是开始读一个博士

3.博士教育中心 CDE

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-centres/centres/centre-for-doctoral-education

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