During the coming KEER conference at Leeds, we are organising a Post-Graduate Consortium on Thursday 1^st of September form 13:00 to 14:00 in the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theater.

The PG consortium provides an opportunity for post-graduate students to share with the Kansei community at large about their own experience and their own questions about their studies.

What is expected of a doctoral thesis?

What leads to do one?

What is advised to become a good doctoral candidate? and what is after?

These few questions will be discussed during the PG consortium, by students, doctoral candidates, industrials, researchers and professors. Using concrete cases of current and former candidates’ projects and experiences as a base for discussion, we will first open up the discussion based on 3min presentations of doctoral projects, and then keep on discussing in smaller groups.

Call for post-graduate students

We would like to invite post-graduate students who would like to show and to discuss their own study experience to propose to present their doctoral projects by a 3min presentation. The presentation should address the following questions:

• Why did I start a Master/PhD?
• What is the Master/PhD about? What are the main challenges for me?
• What do I expect from this study? What are possible plans after the Master/PhD?

A video projector will be available for PowerPoint or Keynote presentations. However we look forwards to see more visual than textual slides! 

Also each presentation will be followed by a constructive and supporting discussion on the project and the challenge.

If you are interested in doing such a presentation, please contact keer2016@leeds.ac.uk.

Required information: Name and Affiliation, KEER2016 paper number (or title).

I will then let you know more in detail how you can prepare your presentation.

Of course, students who do not present are also welcome to join the consortium!

Access is open to all.

 Call for all

We also would like to invite:

– people with post-graduate experiences to join, to share their own experience and to support post-graduate students.

– people with no post-graduate experiences who want to see and discover the challenges and the joys of post-graduate studies!