Postgraduate Research Festival

Wild Ride: Surviving and Thriving... Through the Doctoral Journey and Beyond

Wednesday 22 May 2024, Student Life Building, LJMU
#PGRFest24
 

The Postgraduate Research Festival is an annual event for the whole LJMU PGR Community, organised by a committee of PGRs.  The 2024 event theme was the 'wild ride' of a doctoral journey, navigating bumps in the road as a researcher: dealing with adversity, unexpected challenges, and opportunities for growth and resilience. We were delighted to welcome Dr Yvonne Couch as the Festival keynote. Yvonne is an Associate Professor of Neuroimmunology in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. She regularly blogs about science, research life and career topics for the Dementia Researcher ECR network. 

The festival hosted the LJMU Three Minute Thesis Final, a poster competition, workshops for PGRs on topics from fieldwork and writing to academic careers and failure. This year participants raised £450 for The Whitechapel Centre Liverpool, thanks to a raffle for a host of exciting researcher self-care-themed prizes! 

Read the LJMU news story about the event here

Faq Items

Programme

Competition winners

Three Minute Thesis

Research Posters

PGR Festival organising committee

Previous PGR Festivals