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DPhil Students

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.

Graduate students in Earth Sciences

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.

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Training and development courses

Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme

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Media Interview training: method and delivery, 13 Dec

27 September 2022

Public Engagement - training Training and development

This interactive session designed for beginners takes you through techniques for doing interviews on live or pre-recorded media.

Agile Initiative for Environmental Science Researchers

8 August 2022

Training and development

The NERC funded The Agile Initiative (ox.ac.uk) is delivering development opportunities for environmental science researchers, and those wishing to work on tractable challenges related environmental science.

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Online workshop: Policy Engagement for Researchers, 29 July, deadline 4 July

24 June 2022

Public Engagement - training Training and development

Sense about Science are running this free online workshop for STEM and social science early career researchers, trainees and medical professionals as part of their Voice of Young Science network.

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How to write long-form features, with The Conversation’s Insights editors - Free Online Training, 5 July

17 June 2022

Public Engagement - training Training and development

Are you an academic, researcher or PhD candidate conducting a study that could be turned into a long-form story? The Conversation UK’s Insights team is offering a new training session in long-form feature writing.

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Free online training: Equity in Informal STEM Learning: Using the Equity Compass

7 June 2022

Public Engagement - training Training and development

This course created by UCL and hosted by FutureLearn introduces the Equity Compass tool as a framework to help you support all learners and promote equity in informal STEM learning. This could be useful for developing outreach and engagement work.