What is the Postgraduate Group On Campus?
The Postgraduate Group on Campus (or ‘POGO’) is a monthly face-to-face discussion forum for taught postgraduates, postgraduate research students and DMU staff. The sessions focus on different aspects of study and research, with the opportunity to explore ideas and share practices.
Who is if for?
POGO is open to all Postgraduate Students (including Research Students and Taught Postgraduates), along with DMU academic staff who teach on Postgraduate courses and the professional staff who support them.
What happens in a POGO session?
Postgraduate study and scholarship is at the cutting edge of human knowledge. The Postgraduate Group on Campus is designed for those postgrad students who want to look beyond the confines of their own discipline, profession or programme of study in order to share practices and perspectives and learn from other scholars and researchers across the university. It is an opportunity to expand horizons and see the world from a different point of view.
Each session revolves around a different theme each month (e.g. argument, theory, research methods) and the discussions can last anywhere from up to an hour or two, depending on how the conversation is going. Participants are free to leave at any time, but everyone is encouraged to arrive at the start of the session.
Pogo sessions are not tutorials or workshops in the traditional sense, but facilitated discussions designed to dig deeper into our shared academic practices.
Who runs the sessions?
POGO discussions are usually facilitated by Dr Jason Eyre (Centre for Learning and Study Support), an academic in the field of philosophy of education. Occasionally the sessions may be co-facilitated by others with an interest in the topic of the month. The discussions are friendly, inclusive and open, and everyone will have a chance to share their views in the spirit of scholarly inquiry!
POGO meetings are face-to-face and take place monthly on campus in the Kimberlin Library Postgraduate Room, which is on the Lower Ground Floor of Kimberlin. You will need your ID card to get into the Postgraduate Room.
To book onto a session visit the workshop booking area on the DMU Library website. Bookings open a month before each session.