Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Providing Training and Development Opportunities for Postgraduate Research Students and Research Staff

The Graduate Schools at Cardiff exist to foster an intellectually stimulating environment where postgraduate research students and research staff are encouraged to share and develop research interests with peers from other academic Schools, and to feel part of a wider research community.

• Graduate School in Biomedical and Life Sciences
• The Researcher and Graduate School in Humanities
• Graduate School in Physical Sciences and Engineering
• The Research and Graduate School in the Social Sciences

Every academic School is a core member of one of the Graduate Schools and may be an associate member of others. You will automatically become a member of a Graduate School via your academic School, but remember that you are able to attend events provided by any of the Graduate Schools. Click here for further information about the Graduate Schools.

Latest News  

Career Planning for Researchers in the Physical Sciences & Engineering: Exploring Your Options beyond Academia
This event will provide an opportunity for postgraduate research students and research staff in the physical sciences and engineering to explore a range of career opportunities available beyond academia.  Speakers from a range of employers, both public and private sector, will talk about careers within their areas.  For further details,  please click here.

The Voice of Humanities Conference
This event provides a valuable opportunity for postgraduate researchers to find out about humanities research being pursued at Cardiff University and neighbouring institutions, and establish useful links. It is aimed at MPhils and PhDs across the humanities.  Proposals are now invited for presentations and/or posters (deadline: 15th February 2010).  For further information, please click here.

Speaking of Science 2010
The Graduate School in Biomedical and Life Sciences and Physical Sciences and Engineering are please to announce that this year's Speaking of Science conference will take place on Thursday 6th May 2010.  The deadline for abstracts is Monday 22nd March 2010.  To view the Call for Papers, please click here.

Reconstructing Multiculturalism
The Researcher and Graduate School in Humanities is pleased to announce an international and  interdisciplinary conference - run by and for postgraduate research students - on the theme of 'Reconstructing Multiculturalism', which is scheduled to take place at Cardiff University on 24/25 June 2010.  This event will follow in the footsteps of the highly successful annual conferences held over the last few years on 'Control', 'The Body', 'Reading' and 'Constructing Identities'.  For further information, please click here.

President's Scholarships for Humanities Students   
Four prestigious scholarships under the theme of 'Reconstructing Multiculturalism' have been announced for humanities PhD students applying to study at Cardiff in 2010-11.  For further information, please click here.  

Research Study Supports Grants for Part-time, Self-funded Research Students
Funding is available from the University to support self-funded, part-time postgraduate research students in their research activities. The funds are available for academic year 2009/10 only.  For further information, please click here.

Forthcoming Workshops
There are a number of workshops planned for 2009/10 including: Statistics for Beginners, Archives, Manuscripts and Early Books for Research, C++ Beginners/Advanced, Conference Know-how and Careers in the Humanities. You can book onto the courses via the Research Students' Skills Development Programme (RSSDP) web booking system.  If you have not received a copy of the new RSSDP brochure, please email rssdp@cf.ac.uk

Block Grant Partnership
Cardiff University has been awarded a Block Grant Partnership (BGP) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to provide funding for postgraduate study over the next five years (more info...).