DoctoralSkills Workshops and Courses
DoctoralSkills is a free programme of skills development workshops and courses to support your skills development throughout your doctorate and beyond
Supporting your development
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 online courses, workshops and other resources through our DoctoralSkills Programme.
Explore DoctoralSkills by theme
- Starting your doctorate
- Managing your doctorate
- Finding information and managing literature
- Developing your digital skills
- Analysing your research data
- Developing your academic writing skills
- Communicating your research
- Personal effectiveness
- Managing your career
- Teaching as a doctoral student
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Find a course or workshop by date
Use the DoctoralSkills calendar to browse by date.
Highlighted workshops and courses
22 October
Planning and writing your doctoral thesis: for the sciences
23 October
Literature searching: SciFinder
Planning and writing your doctoral thesis: for engineering and design
24 October
Writing a data management plan for non-sensitive data
Writing your thesis: Using viva questions to guide your writing
25 October
Writing your data management plan for human participant data
29 October
30 October
Publishing, open access and citations
Planning and writing your doctoral thesis: for social sciences
31 October
EndNote: Search for and download references
Searching for biological sciences literature
Writing your thesis: The Introduction