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Category Archives: Skills development
Small research grants
Gradconsult is running their microgrants programme for the second year. Applications are invited for small grants (the total pot of money available is £2,000) from researchers to support their research. The aim of these microgrants is to help researchers to … Continue reading
Find out more about publishing
We’ve been notified of an event on publishing at the end of June that you may be interested in. There are free places available for PhD students. Have a look at the details below if you think you may be … Continue reading
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Resilience in career management
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill I’ve been thinking about resilience lately. It’s cropped up in things I’ve been reading and in some conversations so I thought I’d share a few reflections. … Continue reading
Understanding yourself and working more effectively
It’s the start of a new academic year. Some continuing PhD students may not notice the difference as research continues over the summer vacation period, although if you’re involved in teaching you’ll be starting to juggle that alongside your research. … Continue reading
Academic careers: Insights from the Principal Investigator Role
I was at a conference last week on ‘Supporting the transitions of research students and staff’. One of the speakers was Professor James Cunningham from the Newcastle Business School at the University of Northumbria. He talked about the research he, … Continue reading
Volunteers wanted for a new community engagement project
Today’s post is from Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson who is a Student Community Engagement Development Officer here at the University of Edinburgh. Research students looking to gain experience in public engagement are encouraged to apply for a new project which links … Continue reading
CareerConfident16 – Transitioning from student to professional
CareerConfident16 is a week long programme of events designed to help University of Edinburgh students to manage the transition from student to professional smoothly. Events will take place during the week beginning Monday 18th January. Employers are increasingly looking for … Continue reading
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Managing conferences
If you haven’t come across it already, you may want to have a look at the series of posts on The Guardian Higher Education Network on academic conferences. There’s a lot of good advice, some of it light-hearted, both on … Continue reading
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Global Leader Experience
University of Edinburgh students are invited to take part in an exciting Global Leader Experience (GLE) programme which will run from 16 – 19 February 2016. One hundred University of Edinburgh students from at least 25 nationalities will work together … Continue reading
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Skills gained from PhD Study
We ran a workshop yesterday with some PhD students called ‘Reviewing your Career’. One of the activities involved brainstorming all the skills they were gaining during their PhD. I thought it would be interesting to share. These are skills that … Continue reading
