Every year the Humanities training team organises around 200 training courses, workshops and events for doctoral students and postdocs. The training team work closely with the team that support TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. The aim is to support activities under the ‘Researcher Development’ umbrella, covering the skills and professional development needs of doctoral students and postdocs.
Events include:
‘What I wish someone had told me when I started: Reading for a DPhil in the Humanities’
Preparing for the DPhil Viva
Journal Article Publishing workshop
Organising conferences
Preparation for Academic Practice
Graduate Poster Competition
Public Engagement Summer Schools
Entrepreneurship
Digital Humanities
FUNDING FOR OXFORD STUDENT PROJECTS
In 2014, the Humanities Division established the AHRC-TORCH Graduate Fund to fund graduate projects. (This comprises funding received through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Partnership Scheme for student-led projects, and funding from support TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.)
The Humanities Division’s Training Needs Analysis tool and Research Training log is available to students via the Training SharePoint site (Log in required, using single sign-on credentials)
