Do you want the opportunity to improve your skills in self-reflection, professional development planning and gain a greater knowledge of the wider research environment?
Do you want to practise and develop your communication, collaboration, time-management and networking skills to help progress with your research career?
Are you looking for an informal opportunity to network and discuss your research with other researchers?
PGR Development offers specific workshops and courses to help new postgraduate researchers in their transition into the research environment. These opportunities help new researchers identify and develop the knowledge, skills and personal qualities required for a successful research degree, build confidence and provide networking opportunities with other researchers.
These workshops and courses for new researchers are organised by individual Faculties and are listed below. All workshops take place in Liverpool.
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Further information and other guidance for new postgraduate researchers can be found on our website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/pgr-development/newpgrs/
Introduction to Professional Development for Researchers
This workshop is for PGRs in either the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences or the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
This one-day workshop offers an induction into the research environment and professional development as a researcher. The workshop provides a number of short sessions that introduce the key skills essential to a successful PhD experience, including:
- Project management and how to complete a PhD on time
• Building professional research networks to progress with your research
• How to have a successful relationship with your supervisor
• Planning your professional development as a Researcher
**Please Note: For the Faculty Health and Life Sciences, these workshops are Faculty-wide and for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, these workshops are organised by individual Schools. For further information, dates and booking
Interdisciplinary Collaborations
This workshop is for PGRs in either the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences or the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
This one-day workshop offers an experiential learning opportunity to work in collaboration with other postgraduate researchers from different disciplines in order to produce and present a research proposal for an interdisciplinary conference. The event provides an opportunity to develop skills in communication, collaboration, time management and networking in a research context.
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences: These are faculty wide workshops and are offered in January – March 2016: For further information, dates and booking
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences: These workshops are organised by School and are offered in May – June 2016: For further information, dates and booking
Academic Presentations
These half-day workshops are provided for all post-graduate researchers, but may be particularly useful for new researchers to gain confidence in delivering research presentations. The session offers an experiential learning experience to develop and gain advanced presentation skills within a supportive environment and aims to prepare PGRs for Annual Review presentations and other seminar and conference presentations.
**These workshops are offered periodically through the year, with specific arrangements for some Schools and Faculties:
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and Faculty of Science and Engineering: Further dates will be offered during 2015-2016: For further information, dates and booking
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences: These workshops are organised by School and are offered in March – June 2016: For further information, dates and booking
Communicating Research Online
We also offer two separate courses:
Communicating Research in the Sciences Online – for PGRs in the Faculties of Health and Life Sciences & Science and Engineering
Communicating Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences Online
These two courses are based entirely online and offer participants professional development and networking opportunities for participants who have difficulty attending workshops on the Liverpool campus.
For further information, dates and booking
First Year workshops in Science and Engineering (3- or 4-day workshops)
Workshops for PGRs in the Faculty of Science and Engineering
These three/four-day workshops offer an induction into the research environment and professional development. During the workshop you will work in teams to devise a novel interdisciplinary research project, write a project proposal, deliver a persuasive group presentation and take part in a peer review.
Workshops are organised for each School in the Faculty and all new PGRs should receive direct information from their School.
For further information