Postgraduate support

Academic support for postgraduate students

We have developed programmes on research techniques and independent study skills to support you through your academic career.

Study skills

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment (TLA) offers you advice and documentation on effective learning and also runs Study Skills workshops throughout the year

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Transkills programme

A PhD is about much more than writing a thesis. Researchers today are expected to have a wide range of professional and research skills, be adaptable, self-aware and write for publication as well as for their thesis.

In order to provide the training required, the University has invested in a programme of transferable skills training which offers the unique opportunity to gain the skills that you need.

Transkills

Inter-library loans

You may have up to 10 inter-library loan vouchers per year fee for charge. Requests to Heather Elliott in G26, 19 George Square. Additional ILL vouchers are available for £4 each at any Library Service point.

You should bring a note of the books and confirmation that they are not in the University Library or the National Library of Scotland (on George IV Bridge) to the Main Library helpdesk.

The Inter-Library Loan Service

Access to other libraries

The University of Edinburgh Library is a member of the SCONUL access scheme: a cooperative borrowing programme which enables students and staff to borrow material from over 170 participating higher education institutions in the UK and Ireland.

Conference grants

If you wish to travel to conferences to present a paper, you may apply for help with funding.

Grants are limited to 50% of actual costs up to a limit of £200 for conferences in the UK, or up to £300 for elsewhere. In order for your application to be considered, you must be:

A matriculated postgraduate student in the school of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
Attending the conference in order to deliver a paper.
Within your prescribed period of study.

If you hold a College Award or LLC award you will normally only be eligible for a conference award at a lower rate, as you have a £400 allowance for conference expenses.

Awards are limited to one conference per year.

Postgraduate conference expenses claim form

Withdrawing permanently from the University

Please contact Linda Grieve in the School office as soon as possible so that we can process the paperwork.

Please note that your e-account will become inactive shortly after leaving the University. You should therefore inform your email contacts and be sure to copy all important data to a personal account.

Confirmation of student status

Linda Grieve can provide you with confirmation of status letters for many organisations / circumstances including banks and council tax.

Academic references

Your supervisor will be able to provide you with an academic reference.

Support on academic issues and queries

Further support and guidance on academic appeals can be obtained from The EUSA Advice Place.

The Advice Place

This article was published on Aug 26, 2011