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Teaching and Learning Resources

Courses

• FASS Research Training Programme - modules and workshops for research students offering both on-site taught modules and distance learning units
• Short courses on statistics - courses taught by The Postgraduate Statistics Centre using statistical methods and software - suitable for social scientists.
• FASS Virtual Research Training Pilot Programme - online version of 'Developing Thesis Writing Skills'

Online Resources

• Moodle
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• Being a Postgraduate Researcher at Lancaster - advice to help you through the PhD process.
• Ethics: Ethical Guidelines for Social Research with Human Participants and
  Social Science Research Ethics
• The Thesis Whisperer blog is a newspaper-style blog dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis

Professional Development

• Teaching in Higher Education - courses for all research students who are currently teaching at Lancaster

External Resources

• ESRC National Centre for Research Methods - courses and events in the UK. You can search a range of research methods training courses and events through their Training & Events database. This poster shows the courses running in April - July 2013.
• Graduate Junction is the largest online postgraduate community, providing all Master's, PhD and Postdoctoral researchers from any discipline with an easy way to find other postgrads working on similar projects and build research interest groups, and to share advice and tips regarding postgraduate life.
• Graduate Junction's sister website Postgraduate Toolbox offers postgraduate advice centres, articles and news; a free fortnightly eNewsletter with advice and tips from academics and other postgrads; a dedicated Postgraduate Bookstore; the 'GradSchool' cartoon strip; competitions and prizes.

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