Research
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Supporting you in your research
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The Graduate School ensures that when you’re accepted as a postgraduate researcher at Edge Hill, you’re welcomed into a wider academic community. Find out how our community can support and develop you.
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Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme
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To make our postgraduate researchers’ transition easier, the Graduate School delivers a Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme. In addition to providing a set of core research-related skills, the programme is tailored to each researcher, their needs, and their specific area of research.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) scheme
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The GTA programme is a competitive scheme that offers fully funded PhD places and teaching experience to Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) committed to academic research in their chosen fields. Find out more.
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PGR, supervisor, and examiner hub
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The Graduate School supports Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs), supervisors and examiners by hosting all necessary documentation on dedicated Blackboard sites.
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Research environment and culture
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Edge Hill’s research community includes international scholars, world-renowned professors, early career researchers and postgraduate research students.
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Postgraduate research degree routes
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Edge Hill offers postgraduate research students three possible routes of study: the Masters by Research (MRes), the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and the Professional Doctorate (EdD). Find out how to apply.
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Plants are flowering earlier than ever - here's how they sense the season's
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In a new article for The Conversation, Paul Ashton Head of Biology, explains how plants can sense the seasons and are blooming early.
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Drinking olive oil: a health and beauty elixir or celebrity fad in a shot glass?
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In a new article for The Conversation, Hazel Flight Programme Lead for Nutrition and Health at Edge Hill University has delved into one of the latest TikTok trends.
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Exploring Rhuthmós as ethics, pedagogy and poetic dwelling in, and for, the University
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online guest lecture as part of the Higher Education Research Network (HERN) seminar series, presented by Dr Fadia Dakka, Birmingham City University.
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'The Metrics and Aesthetics of University Performance', Professor Amanda Fulford
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The seminar explores the distinction between the metrics and aesthetics of university performance through the work of the French philosopher and playwright, Gabriel Marcel, and his idea of the difference between a problem and a mystery
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