Pat Cryer is Visiting Professor for the Development of Graduate Education at the University of Manchester. She convenes a national network of academics on Postgraduate Issues for the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) and is the initiator and editor of a series of Guides on postgraduate issues for academics published jointly by SRHE and the Times Higher Education Supplement. She has given numerous presentations on postgraduate matters in the UK, Australia, Austria, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden and Thailand.