Postdoc Essentials

• Resilience in a Research Environment
• The Researcher Survival Kit
• Writing Tools for Research Publication Success
• How to Peer Review Research Papers
• Creative Problem Solving
• Time Management for Postdocs
• How Intellectual Property Rights Can Impact Your Research
• The Postdoc Entrepreneur: Business Plan Basics

Communication and Presentation Skills

• One to One Voice Coaching Sessions
• Voice Projection for Effective Lecturing
• Pronunciation for Non-English speakers
• How to Engage an Audience and Build Confidence
• Great Presentations for Great Results
• Policy engagement seminars
• Science Communication: Reaching a Wider Audience
• Personal Pitching: Selling Your Research and Expertise

 Leadership and Management

• Managing your First Research Group
• Leadership in Research: Vision, Strategy and Team Culture
• Project Management: Core Skills
• Innovation and Industry: Effective Project Implementation
• Meeting Management

Succeeding Now

• Making the Most of Your Postdoc
• So You’ve got Your Fellowship, Now What?
• Managing your First Research Group

Planning for Success

• Planning for Success Beyond your Postdoc
• Leadership in Research: Vision, Strategy and Team Culture
• Springboard Women’s Development Programme

 Next Steps

• Preparing Successful Fellowship Applications
• Interviewing for an Academic Position
• Lectureship CVs: What You Need to be Working Towards Now to Succeed in 5 Years
• Lectureship Applications: What You Need to Know to be Successful
• Interviewing for Lectureships
• Consultancy: How it Can Enhance Your Academic Career
• Getting Your Next Job (Postdocs in Life Sciences and Medicine)
• Getting Your Next Job (Postdocs in Physical Sciences and Engineering)
• Interviewing for a Position Outside Academia
• The Postdoc Entrepreneur: Business Plan Basics
• Innovation and Industry: Effective Project Implementation

Course Directory - A-Z Listing of all courses offered at Imperial College that may be of interest to postdocs and fellows. If you cannot find the course you are looking for in the table below, please contact the PFDC-Support Team
Priority booking will be given to postdoctoral research associates and fellows

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Follow the links below for more information on each course and booking details.  Courses are listed alphabetically by keywords (in bold).

• Science Communication: Reaching a Wider Audience 
• Consultancy: How it Can Enhance Your Academic Career 

• The Postdoc Entrepreneur: Business Plan Basics

• So You’ve Got Your Fellowship, Now What?
• Preparing Successful Research Fellowship Applications  

• How to Engage and Audience and Build Confidence

• Innovation and Project Management – a Commercial Perspective 
• How Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Can Impact your Research
• Interviewing for an Academic Position
• Interviewing for a Position outside Academia
• Interviewing for Lectureships

• Getting Your Next Job (Postdocs in Physical Sciences & Engineering)
• Getting Your Next Job (Postdocs in Life Sciences & Medicine)

• Leadership in Research: Vision, Strategy and Team Culture
• Lectureship Applications: What you Need to Know to be Successful
• Lectureship CVs: What You Need to be Working Towards Now to Succeed in 5 Years

• Making the most of your postdoc 
• Managing Your First Research Group
• Meeting Management

• How to Peer Review Research Papers 
• Personal Pitching: Selling Your Research and Expertise
• Planning for success beyond your postdoc 
• Policy engagement seminars
• Pop-up workshops 
• Great Presentations for Great Results
• Creative Problem Solving
• Project Management: Core Skills
• Innovation and Industry: Effective Project Implementation
• Pronunciation (for non-English speakers)

• Recruitment and Selection, offered by the Learning and Development Centre
• Guide to the 3Rs & Responsible Animal Research (Run BY CBS)
• Resilience in a Research Environment

• Assisting with PhD Supervision, offered by the Educational Development Unit
• The Researcher Survival Kit

• Introduction to Teaching and Learning for Postdocs, offered by the Educational Development Unit
• Interactive Large Group Teaching, offered by the Educational Development Unit
• Time Management for Postdocs

• Translating Your Research Skills for the Private Sector

• Voice Projection for Effective Lecturing
• One-to-One Voice Coaching Sessions 

• Springboard Women’s Development Programme 
• Writing Tools for Research Publication Success 
• English for academic staff (several courses offered by the Centre for Academic English)