What’s that Jean-Luc? Commander Ryker? Stop procrastinating and keep writing. Oh Ok.

Am I collegial? Dr Kay Guccione, Head of Research Culture and Researcher Development, with strong thanks to Dr Rhoda Stefanatos, Charlotte Bonner-Evans, Dr Joanna Royle, and Dr Rachel Herries in the Research Cultu…

Ideas for how to foster a collegial culture. Within everyday policies and processes there is space to innovate. Just because things have evolved in a certain way, doesn’t mean they have to continue to be that way. theauditorium.blog/2026/04/13/a...

Tapping that Trust Me Bro student market.

Call for 2026-2028 REDS Conference Advisory Group Dr Kay Guccione, REDS Conference Director The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference is an annual, free, online, international conference focusing on the scholarship (ev…

Would you like to join our party? For the 2026/28 period (a two-year term), we are recruiting 5 new volunteer Advisory Group members, to join the experienced REDS team. redsconference.co.uk/2026/03/09/c...

Call for 2026-2028 REDS Conference Advisory Group Dr Kay Guccione, REDS Conference Director The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference is an annual, free, online, international conference focusing on the scholarship (ev…

The approach, focus and content of the REDS Conference is quality assured by working with a REDS Advisory Group of up to 20 members. For the 2026/28 period (a two-year term), we are recruiting 5 new members, to join the experienced team. Read more and apply: redsconference.co.uk/2026/03/09/c...

Supporting PhD candidates: why relationships matter By Dr Jeanne Boisselier, PhD, Researcher in social psychology at the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary studies on the Doctorate (LID), Adoc Talent Management. This article draws on her Jeanne’s paper…

How PhD supervisory relationships influence help-seeking in PGRs. A 5min read that will give you pause for thought! supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/s...

Why do I need to know the values of my team? By Dr Joanna Royle, Researcher Development Manager, Procrastinating on social media this week, I watched two content creators: the first, in muted smart casuals, extolling the life-changing power o…

Starting the week with a thoughtful new post from Dr Joanna Royle in the Glasgow team, on values and leadership. theauditorium.blog/2026/03/09/w...

Price tag of the beast.

Midweek.

Recognising responsible supervision By Dr Tamarinde Haven, Assistant Professor in Research Methodology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Why do we need to think more carefully about rewarding supervisors? Researcher evaluation …

Are you redesigning your promotion process for academic staff and looking for ways to assess more then 'number of completions' and 'attended mandatory training? supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/r...

Antidote to packing boxes, Run Director at a damp Ruchill #parkrun, plus a medium and a short one for myself.

35k including a waltz round Cunningar Loop #parkrun (Ep 151).

Got that leaving work and it’s still light feeling!

Change of pace for the weekend. 30k including #parkrun set up and Tail Walker duties.

Save the Date! The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference 2027 will be 20th and 21st Jan.

Subscribe to updates at redsconference.co.uk to receive the call for papers in the summer.

small successes count There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from staring at a word count that’s meant to reach 80,000 or 100,000, knowing you’re only at 12,000. Or from looking at a journa…

It’s important to recognise and celebrate small academic writing successes patthomson.net/2026/01/22/s...

2025 Proceedings: Getting creative: shaping a culture of development – Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference Posts about 2025 Proceedings: Getting creative: shaping a culture of development written by Dr Kay Guccione

Interested in developing researchers for net zero, inclusive spaces, career choices, relational pedagogies, photovoice methodology, supervisor development, creative communication and play. The REDS Conference proceedings begin here (new posts Jan-Apr 2026): redsconference.co.uk/category/202...

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Festive Five – the most read posts of 2025 Happy holidays! Here below are the top 5 most highly read Auditorium blog articles from 2025.

Narrative CVs, criticality, recognition, interdisciplinarity and supervision — all in the top 5 most highly read Auditorium blog articles from 2025. Thank you to all this year's many authors. Collectively we have had our best year ever, with 32,000 views. theauditorium.blog/2025/12/16/f...

Part-Time, Full Experience?: Reflecting on the PGR Lived Experience Project by Arianna Magyaricsova, PGR Intern and doctoral researcher in Archaeology The PGR Lived Experience Project, June – October 2025, was designed to listen to, value and better understand the li…

The PGR Lived Experience Project, was designed to listen to, value and better understand the lived experiences of Part-Time PGRs. In this blog post, the amazing Arianna Magyaricsova reflects on the project.

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On the origins of Pathfinder: Odyssey Researchers Community by Ashutosh Singh, Research Culture and Researcher Development Intern 2025-2026, funded by the Team UofG Together Fund and second-year PhD candidate in Sociology, researching intersectional inequal…

NEW post from the Brilliant Elaine Gourlay and Ashutosh Singh, re-launching our UofG community of career-experienced PGRs and Research Staff and another beautiful example of learning design for and with a community.
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Additional Language, Additional Experience?: Reflecting on the PGR Lived Experience Project By Dr Qian Jiang, former PGR Intern and doctoral researcher in Education The PGR Lived Experience Project, June – October 2025, was designed to listen to, value and better understand the live…

We had the opportunity this year to deepen our understanding of the experiences of PGRs who use English as an Additional Language. Find out here what we learned from them: theauditorium.blog/2025/12/11/a...

Deadline is this Friday! 5th December.

Wahoo!!

Looking forward to reading it! 🫶

It takes a village: supporting researchers to weave narratives that shine By Dr Elizabeth Adams, Independent Coach and Research Culture Consultant at Scafell Coaching. In an earlier auditorium post, UofG Research Culture Manager Rachel Herries shared advice for Supe…

Supporting Narrative CVs? Dr Elizabeth Adams has some ides for you. "Research professional staff are key collaborators...supporting researchers to successfully turn their complex and twisty career paths into compelling narratives."
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Yeah! Hope you will submit a piece!

Aye, we’re legit OG Fiction fans Moley 🙌

Call for Abstracts – Journal Of Imaginary Research Volume 11 The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces for our annual volume produced each November to celebrate Global Academic Writing Month. We pu…

We publish *imaginary* research abstracts!

The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces. Click to read:

Why Abstract fiction?
The theme
How to get started
What to submit to us
What *not* to submit

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The EERA Blog is five years old this month. Our blogs from 170+ contributors have over 144,000 views from around the world. Join your colleagues and submit to the #EERAblog! #EduSci #EdChat #EdResearch #EmergingResearchers blog.eera-ecer.de/contributing-to-the-eera...