This document provides information for postgraduate arts and humanities students at the Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre (PAHC). It introduces the head of PAHC, Professor Steve Miles, and outlines some key questions students often ask. It then provides five tips for making the PhD experience a success, including managing supervisors, setting deadlines, seeing the PhD as a professional training, and practicing writing. It describes what PAHC offers students, including being a community of practice, complementing supervision, and putting postgraduate research at the heart of the faculty. It also outlines some of PAHC's processes and training programs available to students.

1. WELCOME TO THE POSTGRADUATE ARTS
AND HUMANITIES CENTRE…!
PROFESSOR STEVE MILES
HEAD OF PAHC

2. I DID A PHD ONCE

3. DOING RESEARCH THAT MAKES AN IMPACT?

4. KEY QUESTIONS NEW PHD STUDENTS OFTEN ASK
• How often do I meet my supervisors?
• What happens in supervision?
• Do I need to do research training?
• Help me. Am I good enough?!?!??!?

5. FIVE KEY TIPS TO MAKE YOUR PHD A FABULOUS
SUCCESS!
• Manage your supervisors;
• Agree deadlines;
• Remember that writing a PhD is an unique privilege – you determine what you
are examined on…!
• See the bigger picture beyond your thesis: this is a professional training;
• Initiate a discussion with your supervisors on publication…
• Most of all practice, practice, practice writing…!

6. WHAT PAHC IS ALL ABOUT
• Beyond the isolated PhD: a professional training;
• PAHC as a community of practice;
• Complements your relationship with your supervisors;
• With a mission to put postgraduate research at the heart of the
faculty’s research culture where it belongs.

7. PROCESSES
• RD1 – Application to Register – 3 months in (f-t) 6 months in (p-t)
• RD2 - Application to Progress – 12 months in (f-t) 24 months in (p-t)

8. THE RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMME
• Core series
• Provocative Theory
• Methods and methodologies
• Practice Research group
• Writing groups
• The digital researcher
• Conferences
• Student initiatives

9. HARTS.ONLINE
• The first port of call to find out what’s going on and where…

10. FACULTY RESEARCH CENTRES
• Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences (RCASS)
• Manchester School of Art Research Centre
• Centre for Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics (CELL)
• History Research Centre
• Plus RAH!

11. WHERE YOU AND PAHC GO FROM HERE
• PAHC’s success depends on you!
• Make the most of the research culture available to you;
• Look out for potential funding opportunities;
• Think of the PhD with your project at it’s core and all kinds of exciting possibilities
around its edges!
• A professional training not just a qualification!