Graduate Studies
Research Training Programme | Current Year's Programme
Programme for 2011/12
Graduate Training Officer: Dr John Leigh
The Faculty runs a programme of professional training for the benefit of PhD research students. Sessions will deal with key aspects of an academic career: library resources, applications and interviews, conference papers, the teaching of language, publishing, IT (including html), and project management. The sessions on Project Management, Supervising, and Assessing are compulsory for first year students. Additional places on these courses are open to all other PhD students on a first-come first-served basis. Attendance at Distinguished Scholar Workshops and departmental Research Seminars are compulsory for all students. (The Department of Linguistics provides separate DSW events for Linguistics' PhDs, though all are, of course, welcome to attend the literary events.)
In addition to the programme you see below, the School of the Arts and Humanities (CSAH), are running a School-wide programme, and you may choose sessions from this provision to make up your total. The sessions are listed below MML's provision.
The venue for the majority of training sessions is the Graduate Centre Seminar Room or the CALL Facility. The Distinguished Scholar Workshops are held in colleges and details will be sent to students beforehand.
First year PhD students must attend 10 days of training through the year. Second and Third Year students must attend 8 days. Please discuss the options with your supervisor. Departmental Research Seminars count as 3 days of training (4 for French PhDs who also attend the FGRS). Students should choose the training sessions that most interest them to make up the balance of their number of training days. (Linguistics students should refer to their programme.) Organisers of departmental graduate research seminar series will get a credit of 2 days for this work.
The Graduate Office will contact you in advance of every session, to check if you would like to attend. You may, however, book ahead by emailing: mmlgrad@hermes.cam.ac.uk.
.Details of Research training networds are listed below, together with dates of workshops organised thus far. You are welcome to include attendance at relevant events organised by these networks in your total of training days for the year.
TRAINING PROGRAMME 2011/12
- Departmental Research Seminars
- Distinguished Scholar Workshops
- Menu of MML Training Days
- Menu of CSAH Training Days
- Linguistics programme
- Computing Services IT Training Courses
- Research training networks
- MML Calendar for 2011/12
- School of Arts and Humanities - Graduate Development Programme
A. DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH SEMINARS
Each individual graduate student should attend a research seminar in the relevant department at least a fortnight. Please check the research seminar page for details. Additionally, students may choose to attend seminar series in their particular research area. Listings of relevant seminars are available below (and this list should continue to grow), adding more items to the menu of courses which students may choose from.
- Early Modern Research Seminars
- Italian: Research Seminars
B. DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR WORKSHOPS
Once a term, the whole graduate community will meet for a day with a distinguished scholar from the UK, Europe, the US or beyond. These days will consist of workshops, presentations and round-tables based around a broad set of current themes.
Link to details of previous Distinguished Scholar Workshops
C. TRAINING DAYS
The graduate Office will contact you in advance of every session, to check if you would like to attend. You may, however, book ahead by emailing: mmlgrad@hermes.cam.ac.uk.
Michaelmas 2011
- Language Shadowing I (Years 2 & 3)
- Supervising (compulsory for Year 1)
- Writing a Lecture
- Organising conferences
- Library and Bibliographical Resources for research in MML
- Video/film techniques
Lent 2012
Easter 2012
Michaelmas 2011
Language Shadowing I (Years 2 & 3)
11am - 3pm Friday 7 October
Venue: MML Graduate Centre and CALL Facility (pm)
Co-ordinator: Dr Teresa Parodi
pdf of programme
Guidelines for Language Shadowing
Supervising (compulsory for Year 1)
10am - 1pm Monday 17 October
Venue: MML Graduate Centre Seminar Room
Co-ordinator: Dr Steve Joy, Centre for Personal and Professional Development
pdf of programme
Writing a Lecture
9am - 1:30pm Friday 21 October
Venue: MML Graduate Centre Seminar Room
Co-ordinator: Siobhán Carew
pdf of programme
Organising conferences
9.00 - 11.00am Friday 11 November
Venue: MML Graduate Centre Seminar Room
Co-ordinator: Siobhán Carew
pdf of programme
Library and Bibliographical Resources for research in MML
3.00 - 5.00pm Tuesday 29 November
Venue: Morison Room, University Library
Co-ordinator: Dr Anne Cobby
pdf of programme
Video/film techniques
10-3pm tbc
Venue: MML Graduate Centre Seminar Room
Co-ordinator: Pete,CARET
pdf of programme
Lent 2012
Graduate Seminar Series
11-1pm tbc
Venue: CALL Facility
Co-ordinator: Dr John Leigh
pdf of programme
Getting the most from the Web
11-1pm 7 February
Venue: CALL Facility
Co-ordinators: Mel Leggatt & Adam Merton
pdf of programme
HTML Lecture and Workshop
10-1pm 22 February
Venue: CALL Facilitym
Co-ordinators: Mel Leggatt & Adam Merton
pdf of programme
Film Making workshop
10-3pm tbc
Venue: MML Graduate Centre Seminar Room
Co-ordinator: Pete Cook,CARET
pdf of programme
Easter 2012
CSAH Postgraduate Skills Training Programme
The full programme is available at this link:
French and German Reading Classes pdf of programme
Linguistics Programme
The Department of Linguistics run an additional tailored programme for their students, covering topics such as preparing for interviews, abstract writing, and presentations. Details will be available at the beginning of October.
There will be two strands to the research training:
I: Research Clusters
II: Training sessions
Details of the training will be announced shortly:
Additional to events in Cambridge, is the programme of 'Advanced Core Training in Linguistics' for First and Second year PhD students, offered at UCL in London. Details available at: www.actl.ucl.ac.uk
Computing Services IT Training Courses
The University Computing Service run a range of IT courses and students may choose options from their list to make up the required number of training days. The Course Timetable is available at: www.cam.ac.uk/cs/courses/timetable.html.
Research training networks
1. The Research Training Network in Modern Languages: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate/researchtraining.html.
This Network includes a database available to students providing information on research training events relevant to postgraduate students in modern languages across the U.K. (The IGRS gives students who chose to attend training events in other cities a refund of up to £20 towards their travel expenses). It also includes an email discussion list (with useful calls for papers, events, etc.)
