Faculty of Education Research Students' Association
As this term ends, we would like to take a moment to reflect on two years as the editorial team for the FERSA Blog. We are handing over the blog into the very capable hands of Yan-Yi Lee, Kelsey Graber, Krishna Kulkarni, and Emily Goodacre.
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The FERSA Committee is an elected student-run group that represents the graduate student community at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. This open letter, collaboratively written by the members of the FERSA Committee, responds to recent and distressing public testimony made by a number of graduate students at the Faculty of Education regarding the harm they have endured during their pursuit of a higher degree at the Faculty of Education. This letter stands as FERSA’s statement in support of the Black graduate students at the Faculty, as well as the graduate students of colour and Indigenous graduate students at the Faculty; as a public recognition of the Faculty’s failures to address systemic racism and white supremacy within its bounds; and as an initial call to action, with the recognition that the Faculty’s permanent staff are the ones who must ultimately choose a course of action to take.
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Three students from the Faculty who recently passed the PhD viva share some of their top tips that can help you to successfully pass it too.
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Professor Karen Coats explores McCarthy’s 4mat learning cycle and discusses its potential implications for online teaching.
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Lenka Janik Blaskova and Mélanie Gréaux share tips on organising public engagement events.
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Yan-Yi Lee talks about her experience as an amateur cake artist and how it feeds into her development as a doctoral student.
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Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi shares her advice on building a post-PhD career. She addresses aspects such as visibility, networking, taking on small engagements, and getting good recommendations. She also shows how some of the disappointments she experienced during the process turned out to be helpful after all.
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Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi shares her post-PhD experiences and raises a series of questions that may help you decide what career path to follow after obtaining a PhD. In her next post, she will share her top tips for securing early-career opportunities.
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Kelsey Graber, PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge talks about her interesting trajectory of transitioning to a PhD in Education with a background in psychiatry– a reminder of how interdisciplinary the field of Education can be.
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Simone talks about how the COVID-19 has impacted her research plans, and how she is creatively adapting to current circumstances with a positive mindset.
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