Game Rules
How to Fail Your Research Degree is an educational research game for 1 - 4 players or teams
You are a student, undertaking a master's degree at an unusually busy and calamitous stage of your life. Can you plan and undertake your research well enough to pass whilst dealing with a flooded library, your sister's unexpected wedding, and the many other distractions of life?
Quick rules 'cheat sheets'
Tutor Guide
"How to Fail Your Research Degree" is an educational game for 1 - 4 players or teams.
This game will raise awareness of the risks and pitfalls that can affect a research degree, and the academic skills and activities required for success (or failure!) It is designed for master's students or first year PhDs and their supervisors but is also useful for other groups who want to brush up on academic research skills and research terminology, for example, early career researchers, final year undergraduates, and those supporting research students with English as an additional language.
Full guide for tutors thinking about running this game with their students.
Sample script as a guide for how to facilitate the game.
Demo digital version
There is a digital demo version of the game which runs on the free playingcards.io platform. You will need the game file below and to create a Custom Room on playingcards.io (I suggest creating an account.)
PCIO game file for importing into your own custom room.
Youtube tutorial showing you how to import this research game into the playingcards.io platform.