The Graduate School’s transferable skills development programme for 2023-24 is currently under construction in the Gateway Calendar. It is being populated in the next month with new, and repeated, workshops and webinars. Please keep checking back, it’s a work in progress as we confirm dates with facilitators!

Every fortnight we will be sending out the Graduate School Newsletter to PGR and Supervisor UON email addresses (northampton.ac.uk) and a newsletter is due today and every fortnight from now on. In the newsletter you will find a summary of upcoming webinars and workshops, news, transfer seminars, support, services and events to go to, plus Graduate School notices. Please do take a few minutes to read it to keep yourself up to date. If you are a PGR, please do consider taking time to engage with workshops and events at UON – the skills you will learn will be useful for your doctorate and may also be transferable skills for your future career. Meeting and talking to other PGRs, either online or face to face, can also be very helpful for overcoming feelings of isolation. If you are a PGR student and would like to talk to someone about the upcoming academic year please get in touch graduateschool@northampton.ac.uk. The Graduate School are here to support as well as provide development, monitoring and procedure.

The Gateway Calendar of generic skills development for PGRs is filling up in the autumn term. We have some brand new sessions (many of them online by popular demand) on finding funding, maximising productivity, managing your thesis in Word, getting good feedback and much more. We have monthly writing retreats and also presentation cafes online to practice your presenting skills in a safe, supportive environment and be around and learn from other PGRs.

Do take a look at the calendar (you may be asked to log into Gateway). Book your place on a workshop by clicking on the green button on the workshop page. Do get in touch with Simone if you have any questions on the skills development programme.