Each student has a supervisory team and each of the six Divisions 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 highly participative Induction Programme for new postgraduate research students held quarterly to coincide with each new intake (October, January, April and July)
• Graduate School Poster Show - held each October to introduce new postgraduate research students to existing students and their research - with prizes.
• 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 - run twice-yearly in November and February - topics include Microarrays, Proteomics, Cellular Imaging, Mass Spec, HPLC/GC, X-ray Crystallography, Biostatistics.
• Twice-yearly 'Postgraduate Skills for the World of Work' workshop together with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, with industry recruiters.
• Many highly-popular transferable and generic skills courses provided centrally by the University in the Postgraduate Skills Development Programme (PGSDP) - examples include Planning your Skills Development, PhD Project Management, Getting Published, Career Management Skills: CVs and Covering Letters for Job Hunting.