Training Overview

Students will also be asked to submit their PhD Professional Development Form by the end of their 1st and 2nd year, with details of all the training they will have had by these deadline(s); both mandatory and optional training should be included. EastBio-related training should amount to a total of 200 points by the end of their second year of PhD study.

We are accountable for our programme delivery to our funder and partners, and monitor its impact based on factors such as attendance, cohort-building, student engagement and benefits. 

We provide a degree of flexibility acknowledging the effect on students of multiple stressors and clashing work commitments. We will make sure that students who cannot attend mandatory training at default times will be offered alternative options, or the opportunity to attend at a later date.

If you have any concerns about training you are expected to do or if you need to cancel your registration, please do as soon as possible and no later than 2 weeks in advance (unless for an emergency). However, if you cancel too close to the training or without emailing us the reason, EastBio will seek to retrieve expenditure (venue hire, external trainer fees, facility use fees, training licences, etc.).

After notification, EastBio will deduct an amount proportional to the event’s real cost from student RTSG in the following cases:

• No-show
• Cancellation between 1 week and 1 day before the event takes place (including Eventbrite cancellation)
• Notification of cancellation without a legitimate reason

The financial penalty depends on the specific event planned but will range between £100/day to £300 for 2-day residential events (e.g. symposia).