Outline cv for Pat Cryer

Professor Pat Cryer is retired from full-time academic work but maintains an interest in the support of students on research projects and their supervisors/advisors.

During her career, her professional focus was on researching the postgraduate experience for students and staff and the consequent development of appropriate support mechanisms.

In this connection:

She set up the national network on postgraduate issues (primarily for senior academic staff, hosted by the Society for Research into Higher Education {SRHE} which was highly influential in its time with membership from universities across the UK).

She researched and wrote a best-selling cross-disciplinary book for postgraduates now in third edition).

She set up, commissioned and edited a series of guides on postgraduate issues (published by SRHE/THES) - which sold well and again were highly influential in their time.

She was regularly asked to give advice and run presentations on postgraduate matters.

She accepted invitations from (in alphabetical order) Australia, Austria, Botswana, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand and Uganda, as well as within the UK.

After her formal retirement she spent several years as Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester and then at the University of Winchester.

She is a keen proponent of professionally recognised training for research degree supervisors.

She now runs a website on everyday life in the early-mid 20th century, and has used her professional experience to research and document her family history.

* 'Supervisor' is a shorthand for 'research degree supervisor', 'advisor' or 'tutor', and applies to varying extents for all research degrees: PhD, DPhil. MPhil, Prof Doc and even undergraduate and masters' projects. In some countries, notably the USA, a 'supervisor' is known as an 'advisor'.