About Postgraduate Network (PGN)

Our aims are fourfold:

1. To represent the interests of BISA postgraduate and early-career members;
2. To provide training opportunities for postgraduates and ECRs to enhance your collaborative, learning, researching, and teaching skills;
3. To bring together postgraduates and ECRs from different intellectual traditions and cultural backgrounds to form research, teaching and support networks;
4. To encourage an active postgraduate and ECR community that engages with the broader academic community and BISA members at various stages in their careers.

Each year we organise several events including:

1. PGN only panels at the BISA annual conference;
2. An annual conference-style event exclusively for PGN members;
3. A funding competition for organising postgraduate events;
4. A ‘meet the editors’ session at the BISA Annual Conference;
5. A series of careers and professional development events for members.

Past chairs

• 2024/25 - Assala Khettache (Aberystwyth)
• 2023/24 - Ndidi Olibamoyo (Bath)
• 2022/23 - Shivani Singh (Aberystwyth)
• 2021/22 - Joanna Wilson (Glasgow)
• 2019/20 - Tom Vaughan (Aberystwyth)
• 2018/19 - Amandine Hostein (Portsmouth)
• 2017/18 - Tom Watts
• 2009/10 - James Malcolm

Conveners

Contact

pgn.group@bisa.ac.uk