PGSkills for the Engineering & Design Graduate School
The following courses have been categorised by your Graduate School as either essential, recommended or optional for doctoral students in Engineering & Design.
In addition to the essential courses, it is expected that you undertake courses and other development activities [pdf, 51 KB] to fulfil the required 10 days of skills development per year.
Compulsory for Candidature
Starting your doctorate - eLearning module
Essential
Getting started: essentials for starting your doctorate on the right track
Information skills: Copyright/plagiarism/referencing
Intensive training and development of postgraduates with teaching responsibilities - this is essential if you plan to do any form of teaching e.g. lab demonstrations, tutoring, supervising project students.
Research ethics and governance - eLearning module
Preparing for transfer - first year students
Presentation skills: Presenting your research
Working effectively with your supervisor(s)
Preparing for the viva - final year students
Preparing for your viva - eLearning module - final year students
Recommended
Creative thinking & problem solving
Getting published, getting cited
Personal effectiveness for researchers
Planning and reporting on engineering experimentation
Presentation skills: Media training
Publishing: Writing papers for publication - eLearning module
Second year: Staying motivated in the PhD: avoiding the procrastination trap
Writing your thesis (less painfully) for engineering & design
Optional
First year
Effective communication skills for international researchers
How to be an effective researcher or Being an effective researcher, part time
Information skills: Compendex and Referex via Engineering Village
Information skills: Knovel for scientific and engineering data
Information skills: Literature and data searching for Engineering and Design
Information skills: Social and economic statistical data for engineers and scientists
Project management: Managing your research project - eLearning module
Project management: Research project management
Reviewing, managing and using literature - eLearning module
Mid PhD
Careers: Frameworks for ongoing career management
Excel advanced: Conditional Logic and Lookup Tables
Excel database functions pt 1 - filtering, sorting
Excel database functions pt2 - pivot tables
Making the most out of conferences
Making the most out of conferences - eLearning module
Microsoft Word - Word for large documents
Presentation skills: Feedback on your presentation skills
Presentation skills: Planning and delivering more confidently
Recognising and managing stress for Researchers
Reading for academic writing - for engineering & design
Posters: Planning conference posters
Posters: Preparing posters for a conference
Time management for researchers
Writing: Critical writing - for engineering & design
MBTI: the MBTI and your preferences, working style and working relationships
Late PhD
Career Choice - part 1 - what influences your career?
Career choice - part 2 - choosing a career
Careers beyond academia - eLearning module
Careers in academia - eLearning module
Careers: Frameworks for ongoing career management
Careers: Getting hold of your career
Careers: Marketing your research skills outside academia
Careers: one to one guidance and drop-in sessions
Careers: Tough questions, answered
Careers: Using a CV to evidence and sell your skills
Enterprise: An introduction to consultancy skills - for academia
Enterprise: Collaborating with commercial organisations
Enterprise: Intellectual property
Enterprise: Practical consulting in academia
Enterprise: Thinking about business
Enterprise: Turning good ideas into great business
Enterprise: Writing a business plan
Entrepreneurship 1: Are you an entrepreneur? - eLearning module
Entrepreneurship 2: Opportunity recognition, creation & evaluation - eLearning module
Entrepreneurship 3: resources (people, teams, finance) - eLearning module
