During your doctorate you will develop a range of skills, knowledge and experience. These will be invaluable to you in completing your doctorate on time and in your future chosen career.
To complement your development we offer a range of free workshops , events and other resources through our Doctoral Development Programme.
As well as formal training, you should also consider as professional development other activities you undertake as part of your doctorate. These can be matched against the Researcher Development Framework (or RDF) and can provide evidence of many transferable skills. You should record these on your training record in SAMIS.
Training workshops
We offer a variety of different workshops in the Doctoral Development Programme.
- Academic skills such as reading strategically and critical thinking
- Social media for researchers
- Influence and negotiation
- Presentation skills
- Career development
- Research methods
- Writing masterclasses to support you writing your thesis
- Information skills and data management
- Open research/open access
- Time management
- Imposter syndrome
- Motivation
- Productivity
- Project Management
- Supervision
Writing Retreats
During Research Focus Weeks we offer both in-person and virtual writing retreats to support you with your writing goals. Writing retreats give you protected and focused time to work on your writing in the company of a facilitator and other peers.