Professional Skills for Doctoral Students

Short Courses and Workshops

Click the arrows and follow the links to explore the interactive face-to-face workshops available to Doctoral Students

Writing

Writing for Success

Improve your writing skills from literature reviews to grant writing and everything in between
Presenting

Perfecting Presentations

Courses to help with presenting your research at conferences and seminars as well as using posters
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Communicating Science to a Wider Audience

Learn how to interact and engage with different listeners and find out why public engagement is important
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Ensuring Integrity

Shape your professional values and practice, whilst maintaining the quality and objectivity of your research
Management

Management Skills

Become as effective as possible within the research environment and beyond
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Understanding Yourself and Others

Gain greater self-awareness and understanding of others, in order to maximise your effectiveness

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Careers

Practical advice and information ranging from career planning, writing CV’s and applications to preparing for interviews
Computing

Computing

A suite of specialist IT courses designed to introduce research students to particular software programmes
Entreprenuership

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Develop enterprising attributes and skills as well as entrepreneurial mind-sets and capabilities
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Information Management

Learn how to manage your online profile as well as how to use specialist software to manage, store and distribute your research data
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Looking Beyond

Looking Beyond
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Mini MBA

Mini MBA
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Research Skills for Social Sciences and Medicine

Courses teaching the techniques and practices of empirical research
Data

Statistics

Ensure you have the data skills to support your PhD
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Successful Interactions

Courses to help you with negotiating, networking and communication skills.
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Teaching

The basics of teaching and learning theory as well as the role of feedback and assessment and how you can gain associate fellowship to the HEA
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Finish Up and Move On (FUMO)

This award winning course will provide you with invaluable skills to prepare you for whatever your next steps might be