Research development by career pathway
Development and training opportunities organised by career stage.
Research students and staff require differing development and training depending on the point they have reached in their career.
For doctoral students embarking on their PhD, they might require a grounding in the process of research and working effectively with their supervisors.
For more experienced research staff, having already gained much of the knowledge and skills required to conduct research, the emphasis might shift towards working in and leading teams, advanced communication skills, mentoring, grant applications and writing for publication.
Find out more about the highlights key training and development opportunities that research students and staff might benefit from at the different stages of their careers below:
Research development by career pathway point
Research student
New starter
- Out of the starting blocks
- Teaching for research students
- Doctoral review assessment
- Research oriented writing skills
- If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail
- Research methods
- Maximising the impact of research
Final year
- Thesis what thesis
- The viva and research degree examination
- Conflict management and resolution
- Life after PhD
- Publicising your research
Early career research staff
New starter
- Central and School induction
- Paper writing
- Grant applications Clinic Level 1
- Using Research Professional
- Networking
- Creating your first research proposal
- IT training
Development
- Transition to leadership
- Difficult conversations
- Costing your research project
- Research Data Management
- Introduction to project planning
- Using Tech 1 to manage your post award finance
- Networking
Experienced research staff
Targeted development
- Research Data Management
- Making sense of leading
- Using Tech 1 to manage your post award finance
- Evaluation and ethics in European research proposals
- Creating impact through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- Networking
- Naked Law - key issues
This above is not a fixed menu. A more complete list of development can be found through the following links:
- GTR programme – for students and staff
- Researcher Development Framework
- Staff Development Programme - If you are a member of staff at the University you can find this information on StaffNet by going to Human Resources > Development opportunities