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VIDEOS ADDED TO PORT SITE

A series of video clips offering advice on interdisciplinarity, the viva and job interviews have now gone live on the PORT site. The clips feature both senior academics and early-career researchers reflecting on these topics and offering guidance on such issues as: Preparing for your viva, Applying for jobs in the USA and Interview Dos and Don'ts.
Click on the VIDEOS tab on our home page to find out more.

Who is this site for?

This site has been built for academic researchers in the various disciplines that comprise the study of Romance and Germanic languages and cultures, offering online research training and resources in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian studies. It will be of particular use to Masters and PhD students, and to those running postgraduate training programmes. To find out more about what the different skills of a researcher involve, click what is a researcher.

How to use this site?
No matter where you are on this site, the top menu bar of this page will be identical on all the other pages and allow you to navigate to wherever you want to go.

  • Tutorials: If you want to access our skills tutorials, simply click on 'tutorials' listed in the top menu bar of this page.
  • Languages: To explore our language resources, hover on ‘languages’ from the top menu bar, and choose from the drop down menu.
  • About port: To find out more about port, scroll over the house icon in the far right corner of the top menu bar, which will activate the link to our 'about page'.
  • Search: To search specific terms and topics, activate our 'search page' by scrolling over the eye icon in the far right corner of the top menu bar.
  • Contact: If you want to contact us, scroll over the hand icon, which will activate the contact page.
  • Welcome page: To return to this welcome page, scroll over the port logo in the far left corner of the top menu bar.

Disclaimer
port only intends to provide general guidelines with regard to research methodologies in Romance and Germanic studies. It does not provide a legalistic framework setting out the rules for Masters or PhD programmes. To find out more about the specific codes of conduct, examination rules, etc, of your postgraduate programme, please refer to the relevant handbooks of your particular University.

Printing advice
If you wish to make print-outs from this website, go to 'File' menu, choose 'Page Setup', and select 'Landscape' rather than 'Portrait' within 'Page Setup'. This will allow you to fit the whole width of the PORT web-pages onto A4 paper.