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

MY593C is intended for students who are within a year to six months of completing their doctorate. The thematic workshops are suitable for colleagues across all disciplines in the School

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

MY593C: The Endgame

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

Preparing for and handling your viva - covers long-run and short-run things to do in preparation for the final oral examination, with advice from both recent PhD graduates and academics who have acted as PhD examiners.

Academic job interviews - hints and guidance on preparing for and performing successfully at interviews for academic jobs.

Writing journal articles - guidance on how to turn chapters of your thesis into articles and submit them successfully to journals.

Getting published 1, 2 and 3 - expert 'how to' guidance on developing a publishing strategy, getting a journal article published and making a successful pitch for a book proposal.

2 hours and 30 minutes of seminars, 3 hours and 30 minutes of seminars and 3 hours of seminars in the LT. 13 hours and 30 minutes of seminars and 8 hours of seminars in the ST.

MY593C: The Endgame

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

Preparing for and handling your viva - covers long-run and short-run things to do in preparation for the final oral examination, with advice from both recent PhD graduates and academics who have acted as PhD examiners.

Academic job interviews - hints and guidance on preparing for and performing successfully at interviews for academic jobs.

Writing journal articles - guidance on how to turn chapters of your thesis into articles and submit them successfully to journals.

Getting published 1, 2 and 3 - expert 'how to' guidance on developing a publishing strategy, getting a journal article published and making a successful pitch for a book proposal.

Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish your doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), chapters 8 and 9. 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. Also Rowena Murray, How to Survive your Viva (Open University Press, 2003).

This course is non-examinable.