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DPhil Students

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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.

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.

Course programme and booking

Training and development courses

Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme

Blog posts

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Webinar: Engaging with policy makers - can your research influence policy? 20 April

23 March 2023

Policy Engagement Training and development

NIHR are hosting this webinar for researchers to explain the important areas to consider when engaging with and sharing research knowledge with policy makers.

Learn about Public Engagement with Research at your own pace

10 March 2023

Public Engagement - training Training and development

For busy researchers keen to get a primer on the basics of public engagement with research, we have created a new online course that you can complete whenever suits.