Dr Sarabajaya Kumar KSW5.02 and Prof Patrick Dunleavy CON5.19

MY593A is aimed at first-year students registered for the MPhil/PhD. It offers you the opportunity to extend your networks with students in other departments and reflect on your research plans in a series of thematic workshops, suitable for students across all disciplines and covering key topics arising in the early stages of your work.

Booking is essential for each individual workshop that you wish to attend, and should be done online via lse.ac.uk/tlc/training.

MY593A is aimed at first-year students registered for the MPhil/PhD. It offers you the opportunity to extend your networks with students in other departments and reflect on your research plans in a series of thematic workshops, suitable for students across all disciplines and covering key topics arising in the early stages of your work.

12 hours of seminars in the MT. 9 hours of seminars, 4 hours of seminars and 25 hours of seminars in the LT.

Using online resources for literature reviews - expert advice from LSE Library and academic staff.

Working with and managing your relationship with your supervisor - explores the roles and responsibilities of each participant in the student-supervisor relationship and discusses how you can get the most from it.

Blogging, press, web presence and social media - guidance and advice on communicating your research beyond academia.

Managing your work life balance - an introduction to life-coaching and time-management tools that you can use to meet the important milestones in both your doctorate and your life.

Thinking creatively and mind-mapping your original research - explores what originality means in relation to your research question and how to delimit your topic appropriately; features mind-mapping expert Tony Buzan and renowned LSE academics talking about their own research.

MY593A

Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish your doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), chapters 1-4. To get maximum value from the workshops, participants should read relevant chapters before attending the session. There are multiple copies in the Library's Course Collection.

This course is non-examinable.