How to get a PhD in Law: The PhD journey: Supervision, research ethics and preparing yourself for upgrade and vivas

PROGRAMME

9.45-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.45 The PhD journey: The staging posts of your PhD and support for research students 
Professor Carl Stychin, IALS Director, and Professor Sally Wheeler, Dean of the Australian National University

10.45-11.30 Handling the supervision relationship
Professor Carl Stychin, IALS Director, and Professor Sally Wheeler, Dean of the Australian National University

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.00 Panel of research students who have completed or nearly completed their PhD’s will discuss how they approached researching their theses and the PhD journey. Session to be open to questions from the audience and discussion.
Session Chaired by: Dr Constantin Stefanou, Director of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30 Preparing for the Ethics Committee
Emeritus Professor Avrom Sherr, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

14.30-15.30 Preparing for upgrade viva and the PhD viva
Emeritus Professor Avrom Sherr, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-16.30 The foreign, international and comparative law research collections at IALS Library
Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian, IALS Library

16.30 Close

Optional tours of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library led by senior library staff

Although tailored specifically for PhD in Law students, this training programme contains some material which repeats and reinforces generic training suitable for all PhD students.

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is planning to run two further training days in 2020 on “How to get a PhD in Law”.
- How to get a PhD in Law: The PhD in Law and Research Methods
- The PhD journey: Supervision, research ethics and preparing yourself for upgrade and vivas
- Researching, disseminating and publishing in the digital world

General information about other research training offered by the Institute can be found here 

FEES and BOOKING: Student: £75.00; Standard: £100.00. Staff and students of the School of Advanced Study: Free (please email IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk to book your place)

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