From now until the end of December, the Graduate School are offering doctoral students at UN a variety of skills development sessions.

For new PGRs: Two Development days are on offer – Getting Started 1 and 2 – containing no less than 6 different skills workshop.

For those students who are well into the task of writing: We have the skilled and knowledgable Adair Richards coming in to run an academic writing day – a skills training session AND practical writing retreat. Only 11 places left on this so book soon!

For those near the end of their PhD: Chris Roe’s Preparing for the Viva will run as an evening workshop and a careers workshop will support those looking for research work in academic and non-academic fields.

For all: We are also running two SPSS training sessions, these are open to Early Career Researchers and PGR students.

See below for booking details and more information ….

November 13th 2014 @ 9:30-16:00
Getting Started Part 1: (Development Day for PGRs between enrolment and registration). http://start1devdaynov14.eventbrite.co.uk
Contains:

• Systematic Literature Searching
• Risk Assessing your Research
• MS Word: Working with Long Documents”

November 17th 2014 @ 10:00-12:00
SPSS part 1: Introduction to SPSS (for PGRs and ECRs)
http://spsspart1intronov14.eventbrite.co.uk/ (part 2 is on December 1^st – see below)

November 18th 2014 @ 17:00-19:00
Preparing for the Viva (for PGRs)
http://prepvivanov14.eventbrite.co.uk/

November 26th 2014 @ 12:00-14:00
Careers focus: Preparing for Interviews (for PGRs)
http://prepinterviewsnov14.eventbrite.co.uk/

December 1st 2014 @ 10:00-12:00
SPSS part 2: Basic Inferential Statistics in SPSS (for PGRs and ECRs)
http://spsspart2inferdec14.eventbrite.co.uk/

December 10th 2014 @  9:15-16:30
Academic Writing Development Day (for PGRs at transfer to writing up stage).
Dr Adair Richards  Academic writing workshop plus practical writing retreat. 20 places only!
http://writingdevdaydec14.eventbrite.co.uk/

December 17th 2014 @ 9:30-16:30
Getting Started Part 2: (Development Day for PGRs between enrolment and registration).

• Successful Research Proposals and Ethics
• Writing and Structuring your Thesis
• Project / time planning tips and resources

http://start2devdaydec14.eventbrite.co.uk

For the full list of workshops and activities this academic year, please see the generic Skills Development Programme Hub Post.