Programme Content

• Managing a PhD
• Information Skills Self-Assessment

• Research in the Wider Context sessions (minimum of 4 out of 6)
• Publishing and disseminating academic work
• How to ensure your research has societal impact
• Open access publishing: Maximise the visibility and impact of your research
• Data for the future: Preparing your research data for archive
• Societal Impact in HASS: Examples from Research Excellence Framework, 2021
• Becoming a 21st century academic: How to survive and thrive in the neoliberal university

• Final Stages of your PhD sessions
• Completing a PhD
• Preparing for the Viva

You can attend ad-hoc sessions within our HSS modules. All include training hours. These include:

• HSS8002: Information Skills
• HSS8004: Qualitative Methodology in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• HSS8005: Introduction to Quantitative Methods
• HSS8007: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge
• HSS8020: Designing Doctoral Research
• HSS8021: Theories and Methods for Doctoral Research

We offer three workshops each year, open to all Doctorate students:

• Doing International Fieldwork in Development Contexts
• Visually Mediated Research: Using Visual Methods in the Social Sciences

Some topics on offer include:

• Effectiveness in Doctoral Research and Supervision
• Coping with the “Research Context” – Reviewing Literature in the Arts and Humanities
• Writing a Successful Thesis for the Social Sciences
• Issues in Translating Texts and Data

These sessions support your preparation for our mandatory student conferences. You are strongly encouraged to attend as many as possible.

Examples include:

• Photoshop Basics for Designing Academic Posters
• Peer Reviewing for Academic Journals
• Presentation Skills
• Using Posters to Communicate Your Research

Employers value certain professional skills across a wide range of sectors. We offer a diverse range of sessions for you to take advantage of:

• Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE)
• Achieving Careers Success
• Three Minute Thesis (3MT)
• The Brilliant Club
• Language Courses for PGRs
• Digital Skills

Postgraduate research is about more than just theories and methodologies. Thriving as a PGR can, at times, become a challenge for the best of us. Wellbeing4all sessions help overcome some personal challenges we can face during research, including:

• coping with imposter syndrome
• mindfulness

These can have a detrimental effect on our wellbeing if left unaddressed.

Every RED session runs for a varying number of hours. You build up hours in your training portfolio by completing these sessions.

You will complete full training by attending 70 hours’ of modules and/or external opportunities per academic year (35 if part-time). This training method applies to PhD Students (optional at stage 1), MPhil Students, EdD and iPhD Students (from stage 2 onwards)

By engaging in this way you have a number of options to build up hours:

1. complete essential requirements for your stage
2. attend modules (either from start to finish, or on an individual basis) throughout the academic year that suit your interests and needs
3. engage with opportunities outside of our programme. For example: school seminars, conferences, language training, internships, publishing etc

A 60 credit Masters level qualification in research training. You must attend all modules and submit assignments. This lasts 9 months for full time students or 1 year and 9 months for part time students. Find out more on our about the programme page.

Compulsory

• HSS8020: Designing Doctoral Research
• HSS8021: Theories and Methods for Doctoral Research
• HSS8022 : Reflective Researcher Portfolio

Find out more on the University PG Cert in Research Training page, including how to apply if you are a stand-alone student. PhD students will receive information during induction about how to sign up.