How to Fail Your Research Degree

<p> </p> <p>"How to Fail Your Research Degree" is an educational tabletop game that encourages a light-hearted engagement with the various academic skills and activities necessary to undertake post-graduate research and the risks and pitfalls that can affect a research degree.</p> <p>It is particularly suitable for taught master's and MRes students but can be equally useful for students in the first year of a PhD, or even final year undergraduates who are undertaking indpendent research projects. The game can also be used to (re)familiarise early career researchers to the process of managing a research project, and has been shown to be useful in introducing the terminology of research to novice researchers or those with English as an additional language.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The game has been rigorously evaluated - see the publication linked below for full details.</p>