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Supporting your progression through your doctorate and giving you the skills needed to succeed in your future career.

The DPhil is a period of professional research training during which you will develop advanced specialist skills and knowledge, as well as broader transferable skills to equip you for a range of careers. You will have lots of opportunities to develop skills and expertise in your everyday work in your research group and department. The MPLS divisional training and development programme aims to complement these.

  • It’s important to think about the kind of skills and experience you will need to develop in order to carry out your research and successfully complete your DPhil.

    What training do I need?

    It’s important to think about the kind of skills and experience you will need to develop in order to carry out your research and successfully complete your DPhil.

  • Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme

    Training and development courses

    Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme

Blog posts

Great reasons to apply to the 2019 RisingWISE programme

29 August 2019

Enterprising Women Training and development

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

Training and development

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.

Engage Conference, 4-5 Dec, Bristol - offering free registration

5 August 2019

Public Engagement - training Training and development

Engage is the annual conference from the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement with Research for those with an interest in public engagement in higher education institutions to come together, to be inspired, challenged and refreshed. This year's theme is 'Disruption'. We're offering one free place as a training opportunity*.

UKRI Policy Engagement Internships for Doctoral Students, deadline 12 Aug

1 August 2019

Public Engagement - training Training and development

The Policy Internships Scheme provides the opportunity for doctoral students funded by the research councils of UK Research and Innovation to work for three months in one of a selected group of highly influential policy organisations.

Talking Science: Free YouTube series

12 July 2019

Public Engagement - training Training and development

This is an excellent introduction to science communication specially geared towards practising scientists from Greg Foot.