Recommended training

This workshop encourages Postgraduate Researchers to take a proactive role in managing and understanding the relationship they have with their PhD supervisors.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Establish the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and students
• Identify the essential elements of good supervisory meetings

Course details can be found at the following link:

• FEPSS0018 Working With Your Supervisor

This workshop will help you to progress your review of literature and keep up to date with relevant publications.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Identify the most effective structure for your own literature review

Critically evaluate a piece of academic writing

Synthesise literature to build your own coherent argument

Course details can be found at the following link:

• FEPSS8033 Writing an Effective Literature Review in Science and Engineering

This workshop introduces you to the principles of effective writing in an academic environment and will help you to prepare high-quality research papers, reports, abstracts and PhD theses.

At the end of this workshop you should:

• Be able to recognise the elements of ‘academic style’ in your own and other published writing
• Better understand the writing process and the ways to make the task easier
• Understand the importance of report structure to communicate your ideas to the reader
• Be able to improve your writing effectiveness

Course details can be found at the following link:

• FEPSS8120 Academic Writing for PGRs in FSE

This course offers the opportunity to develop effective research presentation skills, enabling you to become a more engaging presenter both in-person and online.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Learn to develop and give an effective presentation
• Identify the audience's needs and engage their interest
• Learn to organise presentation content in a clear and memorable way
• Consider the verbal and non-verbal aspects of presenting in person and online

Course details can be found at the following link:

• RESDEV0031 Effective Research Presentation

This workshop will enable you to better understand anxieties and will provide you with strategies for managing these, so that you can become a calmer and confident presenter.

This course will enable participants to:

• Identify precisely what causes your presenting anxieties
• Understand how to manage and reduce the severity of your presentation anxiety
• Build your confidence and skill as a presenter

Course details can be found at the following link:

• RESDEV0086 Calm and Confident Presenting for Researchers: Understanding and Managing your Research Presentation Anxieties

This workshop invites participants to consider how writing for an online audience differs from academic writing, by exploring different research blog formats and audiences.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand what research blogging is and identify some different types of research blogs
• Identify how to define an audience and angle in blog posts
• Generate varied ideas for online content
• Identify the appropriate use of writing techniques for blog posts
• Develop a draft blog post

Course details can be found at the following link:

• RESDEV0041 How to Communicate your Research to an Online Audience

In this session we will explore the why, what, who, when and how of lay summaries.

This course will enable participants to:

• Understand why plain English is so important when writing lay summaries
• Be able to identify the different types of language that a public/lay audience may find challenging or inappropriate
• Be able to utilise techniques to translate written academic and specialist language for a public/lay audience
• Understand what lay summaries are and why they are required
• Recognise and utilise the structure required for plain English summaries
• Understand what a lay/public audience would expect to see in a plain English summary and why Identify some forms of bad practice in plain English summaries and ways to correct these
• Apply the learning from the session on their own plain English summaries

Course details can be found at the following link:

• RESDEV0046 Lay Summaries with Impact

In this workshop you will learn about the types of questions that might come up in your viva and work in small groups to answer practice viva questions.

This course will enable you to:

• Practise answering viva-style questions and talking about your research
• Learn about the types of questions you might be asked in your viva
• Identify personal next steps to help you prepare for your viva

Course details can be found at the following link:

• RESDEV0047 Practical Viva Preparation

In this interactive session we will explore the concept of transition and how this applies to graduates from doctoral programmes.

By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:

• Identify the impact transitioning from postgraduate research can have
• Have time to reflect on what you have achieved to date and how this may inform what you do next
• Assess different strategies for career planning
• Consider how your research skills are valued in a range of sectors
• Create a clear action plan, identifying when, where and how you will complete actions and who will help

Course details can be found at the following link:

• RESDEV0022 Planning Life Beyond your Doctorate