Personal Development and Training
The academic brilliance of any graduate student or post-doctoral researcher in the University of Cambridge can be enhanced by the skills training that we provide.
Improving your research and transferable skills will help you in many aspects of your life and specifically will help you to be more successful in your current degree or research project and in making the next move in your career.
Informal opportunities to develop your transferable skills surround you all the time in the University of Cambridge but the Graduate School of Life Sciences and the Graduate Development Programme within Personal and Professional Development also provide a programme with formal training throughout the year. In addition there is an enormous range of courses and seminars in areas such as computing, language and more subject specific fields.
Please send any comments or queries not answered in the FAQ to Geraint Story.
- Find out about skills training
- Choose by skills area (eg career, communication, statistics, teaching)
- Browse those that suit your research stage (1st and later year PhD/Masters, Postdoc)
- Browse all at once
- Subject specific training (eg bioinformatics, cancer, developmental biology, neuroscience)
- Some suggestions for research students
- Support for postdocs
- Newsletters-be alerted to training opportunities
- Skills survey for students
- Skills training credits for graduate students
- Log book for graduate students
- Supervising (of graduate students) training
- Training FAQ
- Research Councils' statement on skills training