| Professor Pat Cryer maintains an active interest and involvement in matters pertaining to postgraduate research training. During her full-time academic career, her professional focus was on the exploration of facets of the postgraduate experience for staff and students and the consequent development of appropriate support mechanisms. In this connection she set up the still-active national network on postgraduate issues (primarily for senior academic staff, hosted by the Society for Research into Higher Education {SRHE}); she researched and wrote a best-selling book for postgraduates with research components to their work (now in third edition); she set up, commissioned and edited a series of guides on postgraduate issues (published by SRHE/THES); she was a keen proponent of professionally recognised training for research degree supervisors; and was regularly asked to give advice and run presentations on postgraduate matters. She accepted invitations from (in alphabetical order) Australia, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden and Thailand, as well as within the UK. After her formal retirement she spent several years as Visiting Professor for the Development of Graduate Education at the University of Manchester, and is now attached to the relatively local University of Winchester, where she is Honorary Professor for Research Student and Supervisor Support and Training. She remains an adviser on supervisor accreditation and an external examiner for various supervisor training programmes. She also spends much of her time using her professional experience to research and document genealogy: her mother's Cole potteries line, her father's Fisher line and her husband's Cryer line. She also runs a website on deaf awareness. |
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