Skills Awareness for Graduate Education: Postgraduate Training
Welcome to the SAGE website. Here you will find information about the various training courses run for postgraduates in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. Many of our courses are also open to students from SLLC and CHSTM.
How do I find out what's going on?
In addition to the monthly SAGE bulletins you can keep up with what's going on in SAGE more regularly through accessing the SAGE blog and by following our Twitter feed. The SAGE blog and Twitter feed will be updated on a daily basis and accessing them regularly ensures that you have the most up-to-date information.
Training Provision
For MA students, we run the SAGE MA Lecture Series alongside your Core Course or RTU. Find out more about the sessions. None of these sessions are compulsory for MA students in SAHC, so feel free to come to as many or as few as you think will be useful to you and your research. Some slides and brief details will be available on the blog after each lecture. SAGE also runs a course called "Speed Research Design" in January 2011, which will take you through the whole process of developing a research question, carrying out research, reporting your research and having it assessed. This course will run over two days in the week beginning 25th January, and you will be able to book onto it from late November - details will be announced on the SAGE blog as and when they are available.
For PhD students, we run (with the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures) a seminar course on Conceptual Skills. Find out more about the Conceptual Skills programme by following this link to the SAGE Resources page.
Other training sessions and events will be run throughout the year, and will be advertised on the blog. These will include workshops on Organising a Conference, Publishing in Journals, Voice Projection, Newsreels, Oral Histories, Creating a Digital Archive, and many others.
You are also warmly invited to involve yourself in the School's vibrant research culture. For a list of research seminars, conferences, and student-organised events in SAHC, please visit the relevant section on the blog - conference calls for papers will be posted regularly and details will also appear under the 'Conferences' tab at the top of the blog home page. The blog also has a search facility.
Finally, if you are a PhD or MPhil student and would like to be involved in running an event, have an idea for a training session which is not currently offered, or simply want some advice about how to access training, please email Emily.Bannister@manchester.ac.uk
For anything SAGE related, I will be holding regular office hours in the Samuel Alexander Building, room A16 on Tuesdays between 11am and 1pm and Thursdays between 10am and 12pm. Please feel free to drop in to discuss any aspect of the SAGE programme. If you prefer, you can email me beforehand.
Emily Bannister, SAGE Development Officer
Updated October 2010