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Dear PhD Lab,
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<div>Here are a few important dates for this Autumn term.</div>
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<div><b>(1) Our PhD Lab (Wednesdays)</b></div>
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<li>Reminder: Our PhD Lab will take place <b>Wednesdays 11:00-13:30</b></li><li>These will be in person but I have also created Teams meetings for the whole term for those who will join remotely.</li><li>You should also have received calendar invites (not sure if this worked for non-Stirling e-mails, though).</li><li>Timetabling allocated us rooms but they messed up and gave us rooms for Thursdays. I will update the calendar invites once we get the rooms for our actual slot</li></ul>
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<div><b>(2) Stirling Management School (SMS) PhD Meetings</b><b> (Wednesdays)</b></div>
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<li>Our faculty also has started to have monthly PhD meetings (for all SMS PhD students) that you should attend</li><li>Ironically, these clash with our PhD lab, so we will lose three slots this term</li><li>The SMS PhD meetings take place every 3rd Wednesday each month, namely</li><ul class="MailOutline">
<li>16/10/2024 – 11:30-12:30</li><li>20/11/2024 – 11:30-12:30</li><li>18/12/2024 – 11:30-12:30</li></ul>
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<div><b>(3) Our Economics seminar series</b><b> (Thursdays)</b></div>
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<li>If you are able to, you should <b><u>definitely</u></b> also attend our internal Economics seminar series</li><li>Participating in departmental series is an integral part of your doctoral training as it will allow you to develop a sense of how academic talks work (or fail!) to familiarise yourself with the norms in these sessions, and, ultimately, to develop your own
taste and style for giving academic talks yourselves down the line.</li><li>I really hope for a strong showing of our group at these events throughout the term. It will also increase your visibility within the Economics division. It is important that your colleagues see that you not only exist on paper. Our Economics group is actually
a nice group and we don’t bite, so don’t be shy.</li><li>Sooner or later we expect all of you to present your own work in this seminar. The ideal progression would be to first present in our lab (completely safe environment), followed by our departmental seminar, before we let you out in the wild (conferences
etc.) The seminar will also be used for the public element of your Annual Reviews</li><li><b>Our seminar takes place every Thursday at 12:30 in room 4B96</b></li><ul class="MailOutline">
<li>You will have an opportunity to find this room next week, because Kevin will have his Annual Review next Thursday. Please show up to support him.</li></ul>
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<div><b>(4) Royal Economic Society (RES) Doctoral Training Programme</b><b> (Wednesdays)</b></div>
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<li>As already circulated, the RES runs an online doctoral training programme with exciting guest speakers</li><li>You should also attend these if you can.</li><li>There are 5 sessions scheduled on Wednesday afternoons (so after our lab)</li><ul class="MailOutline">
<li>09 October – Data Bases for Research Economists: Emma Gordon, ADR UK; Rebecca Riley, King’s College London; Claire Crawford, UCL and Joe Grice (RES) </li><li>23 October – Recent Advances in Public Economics: Using demand estimates to inform policy: Rachel Griffith, University of Manchester and IFS Wednesday </li><li>13 November – How to Prepare for the European Job Market: Tai-Wei Hu, University of Bristol; Apurav Bhatiya, University of Birmingham; Martina Uccioli; University of Nottingham and Mary S. Morgan, LSE Wednesday 20 November Recent Advances in Labour Economics:
Stephen Machin, LSE </li><li>27 November – How Economic Research can Influence Policy-Makers: Mike Brewer, Resolution Foundation; Michelle Clement, King’s College London; Tim Butcher, Low Pay Commission; Neil Golborne Department of Business and Trade and Parama Chaudhury, UCL </li><li>11 December – Recent Advances in Behavioural Economics: Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham</li><li><br>
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<li>More details here: <a href="https://res.org.uk/committees/education-training-committee/res-doctoral-training-programme/">https://res.org.uk/committees/education-training-committee/res-doctoral-training-programme/</a></li></ul>
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<div><b>(5) Stirling’s Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Research Development Programme</b></div>
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<li>Just as last year, IAS runs regular PGR training sessions that some of you may find useful</li><ul class="MailOutline">
<li>Newbies: Probably best to have a chat with our 2nd year students about the value of these...</li></ul>
<li>These are badged "Research Development Programme”</li><li>The program is still being completed but some sessions have already been scheduled:</li><ul class="MailOutline">
<li>29/10/24 – 11.00-12.00 - Researcher Development – Development Needs and Planning </li><li>06/11/24 – 14.00-15.30 – Advanced Searching – Arts and Humanities </li><li>12/11/24 – 11.00-12.30 – Advanced Search Skills </li><li>13/11/24 – 11.00-12.30 – EndNote Fundamentals </li><li>14/11/24 – 10.00-11.00 – Back to Basics: Your PhD </li><li>21/11/24 – 10.00-11.00 – How to Start your PhD </li><li>22/11/24 – 11.00-12.30 – EndNote Advanced </li><li>28/11/24 – 10.00-11.00 - Methodology </li><li>05/12/24 – 10.00-11.00 - Methods </li><li>12/12/24 – 10.00-11.00 – Research Questions </li><li>19/12/24 – 10.00-11.00 – Writing and Editing</li></ul>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Till</div>
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