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 * Proposal submission #21754**

Designing a Virtual Graduate School
 * Title**

Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin, University of Hull, Hull, U.K., c.loureiro-koechlin@hull.ac.uk
 * Presenter(s)**

The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss the following questions: How can online environments support PhD students in their research journey? What are the key factors to consider in designing a virtual graduate school?
 * Description**

Background Business School, Hull University, has started a new project to implement a Virtual Graduate Research School. The Virtual Graduate School (VGS) will augment and enhance current research methods training provision within the Business School. It will provide students with an accessible learning resource, which they can return to as often as required during their research journeys.

This resource will facilitate knowledge transfer from successful students and researchers to those with less experience. Currently the knowledge gained from successful students and researchers is often disseminated across a narrow subject field, and much of the "messiness" and complexities involved in their research process is lost as it is written up for publication. The VGS will help students in their process of adaptation and, in doing so, facilitate the creation of a virtual research community. Relationships between students and members of staff will be enriched by the addition of another dimension of communication. The proposed VGS will provide participants with a different form of academic support, comprising education and capturing lived experience.

The project's first stage is to implement a pilot of the virtual graduate school for the Business School. At a later stage, the aim is to extend this facility across the University as a cluster of virtual graduate schools.

Roundtable Not previously published All audiences
 * Notes & Comments**