There is ample occasion at Department of History events for postgraduate students to share in others' research and to discuss academic, social or career-related issues with other postgraduates, members of staff, and visiting speakers.

In addition, postgraduate students are currently forging links with postgraduates at the University of Kent with the possibility of joint events in the future, run by and for postgraduates.

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Postgraduate Research Seminar Series

The postgraduate research students in the Department of History organise and convene their own seminar series which runs on alternate Thursdays at 5.00pm in semesters one and two. The venue is Arts 2.26. All PhD and MA students in the department are encouraged to attend. Information on the Spring Semester 2006 Seminar Series can be found by clicking here.

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The Mile End Group
The Mile End Group (MEG) was born in December 2003 by postgraduates of Queen Mary College. It takes the form of a seminar series, blending both postgraduate students’ current research findings and outside luminaries’ personal reflections. The seminars are broadly contemporary British history issues, with particular emphasis on politics and Whitehall past and present.
The seminars are irregular and take the form of a 30 minute talk by the main speaker (no reading of papers allowed), followed by 10 minutes from an expert respondent all completed by 30 minutes of questions. We then retire for dinner. For information on this seminar series please see:
www.mileendgroup.com

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Annual postgraduate forum
The Postgraduate Forum in the Department of History takes place twice a year, in December and June, and provides advanced doctoral students with an opportunity to present their work and receive comment from their peers and members of staff in the Department. The Forum normally takes place in the Social Sciences Research Suite.

This event is open only to existing postgraduate students and staff in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Queen Mary, and History research students at the University of Kent.

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Annual postgraduate workshops
In 2001, a series of annual workshops on approaches to history held in the Department of History at Queen Mary, was inaugurated with a study day on Oral History: Problems and Promise to which research students from other universities were also invited.

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Visiting fellows
Visiting Queen Mary Fellows who have offered seminars to doctoral students in the recent past include Professor George Steiner, Professor Michael Ignatieff and Mr Alan Rushbridger.