Hi Juno!
Luckily I wont be setting up the grad-student support myself. We have IT department doing this... hooray! But will pass on Ms Crow's info to them. I really wanted to know about experiences of folks here who might have used a similar forum at their university. I think it could be a great support network for PhD students who are working and or have other committments. Good luck with your IT project...

Hello everyone! This is my first post..... At my uni were thinking about setting up an online graduate forum, a bit like this one. It will be used for networking, setting up research interest groups, interacting with other disciplines and organising social groups etc etc. The forum will also provide opportunites to meet others too. We all know how isiolating reserach can be. Does anyone here have something similar already up and running at their university? Has it been a success?