Graduate School Training
The Faculty Graduate School provides our postgraduate research students with an outstanding package of generic and research specific skills training essential for successful completion of their research degree.
Each student has a supervisory team and each Department or School of the Faculty has a PGR Mentor, specifically to advise postgraduate research students. As well as skills training, supervision and mentoring, the Graduate School provides a rigorous framework of progress monitoring alongside personal development planning for each individual student, to ensure completion of the research degree within the time-scale appropriate to the programme.
Highlights of our training programme include:
- A Faculty Induction Programme for new postgraduate research students.
- Training courses to cover the major milestones of the PhD Programme - Welcome to Your PhD, The Confirmation Process, and the Viva Examination
- A University-wide Postgraduate Research Conference, organised by and for the postgraduate research students, with external speakers and opportunities to present work as posters or orally.
- Research Festival - held each summer for the whole Faculty - invited distinguished speakers, both external and internal, as well as poster and presentation prizes.
- Research Skills courses - topics include Microarrays, Proteomics, Cellular Imaging, Mass Spectrometry, HPLC/GC, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Ethics, Good Clinical Practice.
- Many highly-popular transferable and generic skills courses provided centrally by the University in the Postgraduate Skills Development Programme - examples include Planning your Skills Development, PhD Project Management, Getting Published, Career Management Skills: CVs and Covering Letters for Job Hunting.
All courses can be booked via the Postgraduate Skills Development Programme at the Faculty Specific Training page.
