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DPhil Bootcamp: Building healthy, productive habits (in-person)
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 9.30am to 3.30pm
The MPLS DPhil Bootcamp is a one-day workshop that helps new doctoral students build essential skills for managing their research, time, and relationships. Through practical sessions and expert insights, participants learn strategies for resilience, productivity, and making the most of Oxford’s opportunities.
Sci-Comms Skills Lab (in-person)
Thursday, 05 February 2026, 10am to 4pm
Learn how to turn complex research into clear, engaging stories that connect with any audience. This interactive workshop covers practical techniques for shaping your message, avoiding jargon, and using visuals and analogies to make ideas stick. Perfect for researchers looking to communicate with impact at events, in the media, or online.
GROW: Rapid Design Thinking using AI
Tuesday, 03 February 2026, 12pm to 2pm
Discover how to combine creative problem-solving with AI-powered tools in this fast-paced, hands-on workshop. You’ll learn the essentials of Design Thinking, practice refining real-world challenges, and explore how AI can accelerate ideation and solution development. Bring a problem from your research area—or use one we provide—and collaborate with peers to generate innovative ideas.
An introduction to EDI (online)
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 10.30am to 11.30am
We will look at the core components of EDI and consider how and why EDI matters to all of us.
Telling stories that matter: Communicating your research through story (in-person)
- All
- Communications
- DPhil students
- Presentation skills
- Public engagement
- Research staff
- Writing skills
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 10am to 4pm
Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research
Thriving in Research: core strategic skills and mindsets for research impact (in-person)
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 10am to 3pm
The way we work and interact with our peers and wider networks, has a huge influence on research outputs and outcomes. This workshop explores a set of core skills and mindsets to help you thrive in research and positively influence your working environment and teams. You will also be able to share your lived experience with peers and participate in focused discussions.
Connecting with Industry for Scientists (in-person)
Monday, 09 February 2026 to Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 9am - 5pm
An interactive programme delivered in person over two full day sessions, giving DPhil students a working knowledge of critical business issues that impact commercial organisations.
Difficult conversations and the importance of giving and receiving feedback (online)
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 10am to 11am
We will look at the core components of how to give and receive feedback and why not doing this can sometimes lead to avoiding having some conversations.
Cultivating resilience and self-care for ourselves and others (online)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 10am to 11am
What does it mean to be resilient, what does self-care really mean and how can we best support ourselves and others?
Difficult conversations and the importance of giving and receiving feedback (online)
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 10am to 11am
We will look at the core components of how to give and receive feedback and why not doing this can sometimes lead to avoiding having some conversations.
Interviewing for podcasts (online)
Thursday, 07 May 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
Non-medical Systematic Reviews – Part 2 (in-person)
Monday, 03 November 2025, 2pm to 3.30pm
This session covers developing your systematic review search and selecting sources for peer-reviewed and grey literature.
Non-medical Systematic Reviews – Part 1 (in-person)
Monday, 27 October 2025, 2pm to 3.30pm
Systematic reviews are a powerful tool for synthesising and evaluating evidence from published research.
Scopus searching for MPLS (online)
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 10am to 11am
Unlock the full potential of your literature review with Scopus, a vital database for science. Scopus indexes over 100 million records, including articles, conference papers, book chapters, and more.
Leading Collaboration - bringing people together to achieve the extraordinary (in-person)
Wednesday, 08 July 2026, 10am to 3pm
You have brilliant ideas for research collaboration that could have extraordinary outcomes. But how will you engage the people you are relying on?
Creating Professional and Personal Impact
Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 9.30am to 4.30pm
To build participants’ confidence and skills in presenting themselves and their work in different situations and to difference audiences.
Get that fellowship (in-person)
Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Gaining a research fellowship is a major step on the academic career ladder.
Exploring and overcoming imposter phenomenon (in-person)
- All
- Confidence
- DPhil students
- Equality and Diversity
- Graduate students
- MPLS
- Research staff
- Resilience
Monday, 11 May 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Most people experience self-doubt at some point in their life. We may not feel as knowledgeable as our background suggests or we may attribute our success to luck, secretly feeling that we are not as competent as others perceive us to be. Such thoughts and associated emotions are sometimes referred to as impostor phenomenon (IP). It is difficult to say how many people experience IP as not everyone wants to discuss it. However, some research suggests it is common amongst high achieving individuals such as those working within academia.
Get that fellowship (in-person)
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Gaining a research fellowship is a major step on the academic career ladder.
Get that grant (in-person)
Wednesday, 04 February 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
External research funding is a crucial part of the research profile of universities and is a major issue for academic staff.