Career Development and Training
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.
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COURSE PROGRAMME
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Courses run regularly in MPLS
The MPLS Division run a range of courses every year. Click here to see the full list.
Upcoming Courses
Your Successful DPhil
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 11.30am to 2.30pm
This course will help you kick-start your DPhil
Introductory Presentation Skills
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 1.30pm to 5pm
If you have little or no experience of giving presentations, this course is for you.
MPLS Developing Learning and Teaching programme
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 to Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) is the second level of training in teaching skills at Oxford.
Blog posts
Wellcome: Why we need to reimagine how we do research.
25 September 2019
Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome, writes about how the results driven approach to research needs to change
The 2019 Concordat for Research Staff
20 September 2019
2019 Concordat to support the career development of researchers
Great reasons to apply to the 2019 RisingWISE programme
29 August 2019
Alexandra Bremers, Human-Machine Interface Researcher (Jaguar Land Rover), RisingWISE 2018 participant, explains how the course has proved invaluable to her.
STFC Public Engagement Early-Career Forum, deadline 6 Sept
12 August 2019
The STFC Public Engagement Early-Career Researcher Forum (the 'PEER Forum') supports talented scientists and engineers in the early stages of their career to develop their public engagement and outreach goals.