Postgraduate Cultures: Community, Collaboration and Connection.
2-3 July 2026
The University of Liverpool.
See more information here: https://ukcge.ac.uk/events/annual-conference-2026
The conference invites critical, creative and practice-informed contributions that explore the nature of postgraduate cultures. With a focus on community, collaboration and connection, we seek to foreground approaches that support thriving, inclusive and sustainable environments for postgraduates across diverse institutional and national contexts.
Areas of interest
- Co-creation – postgraduates as colleagues
- Building inclusive and equitable research communities
- Third space professionals (including practitioner-researchers, research-enabling staff and professional services colleagues) – interconnectedness across roles, remits and functions
- Wellbeing, belonging and mental health in postgraduate education
- Connecting to society and doctoral education for public good
- Learning environments for postgraduates and access to research culture in pedagogical spaces
- Innovations in supervision practices and pedagogies
- International and cross-cultural perspectives on postgraduate cultures
- Power and value of collaboration beyond the obvious: digital, hybrid and place-based communities of practice
- Hidden, under-described, and DIY postgraduate communities and cultures
- Improving the PGT transition into HE
Deadline for submissions: Friday 7th November.
Abstracts submitted by this date will be reviewed in November and authors will be informed of the outcome in early December.
There will be a second and final deadline for submissions later in 2026 — further details will be available closer to the time.
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