Resources for PhD students

General resources

• Some general advice on making an application to a PhD programme is provided here.
• A lot of useful information is available on the ISG PhD student resource pages.
• There is a large and very useful collection of crypto-related PhD theses here - if you have one, you should add yours today!
• The Guardian style book, an extremely useful guide on writing clear English, is available here. This is recommended reading for all students, along with the Oxford Guide to Plain English. In this connection, see also the home page of the excellent Plain English Campaign.
• I have put together a list of LaTeX resources, including templates for a Ph.D. thesis, which may be of use.
• Steven Galbraith has compiled an extremely useful PhD student information pack, including a number of valuable links.
• The PhD regulations for Royal Holloway are available online.
• The Mathematics Department maintains a Technical Report series, which includes a number of PhD theses.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a School of Mathematics and Information Security research student training session on Plain English.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Mathematics Department training session on the publication process.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Mathematics Department training session on improving your use of LaTeX.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Royal Holloway Graduate School training session on the PhD Oral Examination.
• The European Commission have published a document entitled Towards a European framework for research careers, which discusses possible career routes for research specialists.
• Stefan Rueger's How to write a good PhD thesis and survive the viva, gives advice on how to write a good PhD thesis in computing in the UK.
• For information about the IACR conferences (Crypto, Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt) see the IACR web site.
• Finally, the PhD comics web page is compulsory reading for all PhD students (and supervisors of PhD students).

Information about PhD funding

• The Royal Holloway Research Degrees website provide information about funding opportunities.
• The Royal Holloway Geography Department provides a very useful catalogue of funding sources, much of it of quite general relevance.

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