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Career Development and Training

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Our training enables you to develop the skills and career management tools to give you greater choice over the future direction of your career

Our training for doctoral students and research staff is designed to make you the best researcher you can be: to give you the skills and experiences that you need to stand out from the crowd. Don’t just trust our word for it though - our training courses get consistently excellent reviews from participants: the average feedback on our training sessions was 8.4 / 10 over the last two years.

Our pages are focused around who you are, so whether you are a doctoral student or a member of our research staff  within MPLS, you should be able to find the right information relating to you easily. If you need anything else, then please get in touch.


Research Staff

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Training for researchers

Enterprise

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Enterprise training

Public Engagement

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Public engagement training

Upcoming Courses

Leadership in action

Wednesday, 11 September 2019 to Friday, 13 September 2019

Leadership in Action enables researchers to explore and develop their leadership skills.

AIMday in Healthy Ageing

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 @ Blavatnik School of Government, 120 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6GG

Scientific Entrepreneurship

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 to Wednesday, 11 December 2019, 2pm - 4.30pm

Success in a start-up business is significantly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies. This weekly, term-long course provides potential science/engineering entrepreneurs with the knowledge to help succeed in an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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