The Roey Grad Podcast

An extended version of Will’s interview with Hana, whose episode  aired  earlier this year. Hana Iqtait, third year doctoral candidate at the University of Roehampton’s School of Business and Law, is its academic representative for graduate students. In their conversation, we learn about her very personal journey to a PhD topic, the challenges of isolation in the first year of one’s PhD and how Ha...

Like a lot of other English words, you can’t spell Christmas without A.I. Charles has crafted a surprise for the team, which we share with you.    The Roey Grad Podcast is a presentation of the University of Roehampton’s  Graduate School.    Our theme music is by  DiamondTunes     Our hosts are two PhD students at Roehampton, Charles Miller and Will Berard, who also edits and mixes the podcast. It...

We patched in a fifth microphone in Sound Studio One so Charles and Will could sit down with Sandra Celada, Charley Clayton and James Powell from the University's Library and Digital Services Team. We discuss the many services their team offer students, the lifecycle and management of resources, the persistence of the physical, heavy-metal-on-dead-tree-pulp book in spite of the ascendency of every...

Aaliyah, Charles and Will sit down for a chat with Kaylianna Christian. Hailing from Florida, Kaylianna chose Roehampton with great care to study the impact of children’s literature in the moral education of early years learners. Kaylianna is a Christian minister, currently Young Life and Families Pastor at St Peter’s , in Notting Hill, and her doctoral journey is moved by a profound Faith, but he...

Will and Charles speak to Sara Houston , Professor of Dance and Director for the Centre for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange at the University of Roehampton’s School of Arts. Since the late 2000s, Sara’s research has focused on the benefits of dance for people with Parkinson’s, starting from a small project with the English National Ballet, then growing into a decades-long project, culminati...

Earlier this year Jake Elliot was awarded his PhD at Roehampton. He returned to the university for this show, to tell us about his thesis - about William Blake and London - and offer some insights into how to complete a PhD successfully - he passed his viva in May with no corrections.  Jake has already published an article about his work (see below) and is teaching in Oxford while preparing a prop...

Charles and Will sit down for an inspiring chat with Louis Wright, head of Sustainability, and Amelia Iswariah, Sustainability and Energy Officer. They discuss the work of the sustainability team, and sustainability efforts in the HE sector more broadly; the importance of awareness-raising, communication, storytelling; and balancing these qualitative aspects of their impact with the quantitative a...

In this episode, Will speaks to Jian Bakir, a third year Education PhD student. Jian’s thesis explores the experience of primary school teachers in active war zones – in this instance Aleppo, Syria. They discuss the very personal path to Jian’s research, the difficulties of collecting data from a war zone, her likes, dislikes and recommendations when it comes to doctoral life.     Recommendations:...

Charles sits down for a chat both broad and deep with  John Moxon , interim deputy dean, educational partnerships lead and academic discipline officer in the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. John has an impressive range of professional expertise – from software to religious studies. With doctorates in both physics and theology, he currently publishes papers about the Acts of the Apo...

In this episode, Will sits down with  Sripadma Ganapathi , a third-year Dance PhD student of Roehampton's School of Arts. A dancer, and teacher, of  Bharatanatyam , an Indian classical dance form, Sripadma shares details of her  interdisciplinary research, which aims to create a dance-based warm-up routine for Bharatanatyam dancers to help reduce the form's high injury rates.     Her multidiscipli...

In the very first episode recorded for the podcast, in somewhat DIY conditions, Will sits down with Mairead Watson and Jane Pollard from the Disability and Dyslexia department, who outline all the support the University offers to students who need it.  We cover the disabilities and learning needs supported, the types of support, accessing the DSA, and, relevant to grad students, a new initiative t...

In this episode, Charles speaks to Catherine Archer-Richards , who is in the final months of her PhD in Children's Literature. Catherine’s thesis, “Shakespeare as the ‘girl’s friend’” investigates the way girls in the Victorian era encountered the works of Shakespeare, at home and at school. She situates the influence of these early literary encounters on the evolving conceptions of girlhood, and...

Will sits down with Natalie and Hana, (whom you have heard in episodes 2, and 4), to talk about their roles as student representatives, the RSDP and RSDF, and Pecha Kucha presentations, to propagate your research to a broader audience.  Chapters  00:09 Introduction  00:39 Different kinds of reps  01:30 Natalie, Grad School Rep for Ethics  05:35 Hana, PhD rep for the Business School  07:41 The Rese...

Will sits down with fellow Autistic Education PhD Natalie Cairns-Ratter. Natalie is a musician, music teacher, and mother of an Autistic son, which all led her, first to a Master of Education at the Royal College of Music, then to her doctorate.  Natalie’s research investigates experiences of flow   - full immersion and intense focus on a task – during music practice, with the view of reconceptual...

Professor Ted Vallance, Dean of the Graduate School, explains the milestones of doctoral research.  Research degrees handbook   Graduate School Home Page   Chapters:  00:07 Introduction   00:43 Overview of the milestones   01:03 The application (RDCOM1)  04:21 What's an 'RDCOM'?  06:01 Project Confirmation (RDCOM2)  08:48 RDCOM3  10:11 Milestones as support, not constraints   11:29 The completion...

In this episode, Will speaks to Hana Iqtait, third year doctoral candidate at the University of Roehampton’s School of Business and Law, and its academic representative for graduate students. In their conversation, we learn about her very personal journey to a PhD topic, the challenges of isolation in the first year of one’s PhD and how Hana overcame it, with some bonus content on the enduring pop...

On this first episode of the Roey Grad Podcast, our host Charles speaks to Prof. Ted Vallance, Dean of Research and Doctoral Study at the University of Roehampton. Ted is also an historian, expert on Charles I and the English Civil War, although as we find out, these days he does this on his spare time.  Ted’s PURE profile    The Roehampton Graduate School    The Grad School and Research Office Li...

As we wrap up on the recordings for the upcoming series, here is a sneak peak into what is to come :)

If you would like to feature in future episodes, get in touch with the Graduate school at graduateschool@roehampton.ac.uk!

What is the Grad School, and what do they do?

In this trailer we go over who the podcast has been set up for :)

What should you expect from this podcast?