A to Z of Researcher Development Programme courses
All courses are booked through the University Training booking System (UTBS).
A course timetable for the current year can be found here.
Below is a list of RDP course provision in alphabetical order. Please note that these links will take you to the UTBS website where you can book a place.
- Being Assertive: Making Yourself Heard
- Being Strategic: Getting Others Interested in Your Research
- Building Resilience and Coping with Setbacks
- Completing Your PhD (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Completing Your PhD (Physical Sciences & Technology)
- Effective Communication: Non-verbal Communication
- Effective Communication: Verbal Communication
- Effective Research Presentations (Workshop)
- Finishing Up and Moving On: FUMO (Engineering)
- Getting the Most out of Conferences
- GRADschool
- How to Peer-Review Research Papers for Postdocs/Research Staff (Sciences)
- I Don't Have Enough Time: Managing Your Priorities
- Introduction to Leadership Skills
- Making the Most of Meetings
- Managing Stress
- Managing your Information: A Workshop for First-year PhD Students (Arts and Humanities)
- MBTI: Understanding Personality in a Research Environment
- Moving into Business
- Personal Skills Profile
- Planning and Managing a Research Project (Blended)
- Presentation Skills: With One-to-One Feedback (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Presentation Skills: With One-to-One Feedback (Physical Sciences, Technology & Life Sciences)
- Selling Skills
- Skills Analysis One-to-One (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Skills Analysis One-to-One (Engineering)
- Skills Analysis One-to-One (Physical Sciences & Technology)
- Solving Research Problems Creatively
- Starting Your PhD (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Starting your PhD (Life Sciences)
- Starting your PhD (Physical Sciences & Technology)
- Supervising and Small Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Supervising & Small Group Teaching (Engineering)
- Supervising & Small Group Teaching (History)
- Supervising & Small Group Teaching (Life Sciences)
- The Art of Negotiation and Influence
- Writing Research Papers - Sciences (Physical Sciences, Technology & Life Sciences)
- Writing Skills Summer School
- Writing Your First Year Report (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Writing Your First Year Report (Engineering)
- Writing your First Year Report (Life Sciences)
- Writing Your First Year Report (Physical Sciences and Technology)