Academia 101

Academia 101 has been created to support you in your professional journey as a researcher both during your PhD and beyond, with a series of introductory sessions on key research topics.

Upcoming Academia 101 sessions:

Presenting your Paper

Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026
Time: 10am-11:30am
Online: Teams link

Led by Professor Liz Parsons, Chair in Marketing at the University of Liverpool. This session will help you to translate a paper into a presentation. It will cover:

Presenting your paper

Understanding your objectives and audience
Getting the pitch right while keeping it simple

Preparing your material

Structuring, designing and rehearsing your talk

Delivering your talk

Key tips on delivery and addressing potential pitfalls

The workshop will include a series of practical exercises.

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Your PhD, Your Impact: Making Academia More Inclusive

Date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
Time: 10am-11am
Location Rendall Building- Seminar Room 1
Online: Teams link

Led by Dr. Yigit Oezcelik, Associate Professor in Economics.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is an important part of life in higher education. This session offers an introduction to what EDI means in teaching and why it matters for postgraduate researchers and their academic career.

Together, we will:

Explore what EDI is and how it relates to academic life
Reflect on how EDI shows up in teaching
Share ideas and practical ways to support EDI in your own work

You will leave with a clearer understanding of EDI and some ideas for putting it into practice.

How Academia 101 supports your development as a researcher

These sessions have been built around the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF), the national professional development framework for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, professional and career development of researchers.

The Vitae RDF is structured into 4 domains to capture the knowledge, behaviours, and attributes identified as significant for researchers across a wide range of stakeholders:

Domain A: Knowledge and intellectual abilities: The knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research
Domain B: Personal effectiveness: The personal qualities and approach to be an effective researcher
Domain C: Research governance and organisation:
Knowledge of the professional standards and requirements to do research
Domain D: Engagement, influence and impact: The knowledge and skills to work with others to ensure the wider impact of research

Each of the Academia 101 sessions is explicitly linked to at least one of the Vitae RDF domains, sub-domains and descriptors, to help you track your progress and development within these specific areas.

This also allows you to select sessions that are particularly relevant to your personal research development.

Joining Academia 101 sessions

Academia 101 sessions are hybrid and open to student from any of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) universities:

Please, only register if you are able to commit to engaging fully with the training event.

You will be expected to engage with the training leaders and one another, so cameras should be switched on at all times where possible.

Please, note that non-attendance is monitored, so if you are no longer able to attend an event you have registered for, please do let us know in advance by emailing Academia 101 Co-Leads Nariman Hanno (nhanno@liverpool.ac.uk) and Claire Lebrun (clairelb@liverpool.ac.uk).

If you have any questions and suggestions for future sessions, please don’t hesitate to contact them.