Who has a post grad support group at their Uni ?
Do you make use of their services ?
Are they any good ?

I'm particularly interested in support groups for part-timers.

Let me know your experiences, please.

I think support groups are a great idea, especially for part-timers: it's easy to feel disconnected from PhD life. I've never encountered a PhD student support group. I'm a part-time student and live 2 hours away from my department so I feel te lack of this particularly strongly.

I think it'd be a good idea to start something, even if it's just meeting in a coffee shop every now and again. What to people think? I live in the Northwest.

i think it would be a great idea, i'm full time but based with my industrial partner and rarely go into uni, so i often feel a bit isolated! i'm also in the north west....

OK Smoobles, I'll set up a Northwest PhD support group thread and see what happens.