Transferable Skills

Information about mandatory Transferable Skills training sessions.

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Students present their posters at a Poster session. Dundee, EastBio 2019 Symposium
Poster session - Dundee, EastBio 2019 Symposium

The acquisition and development of personal transferable, employment-related and research-oriented generic skills is an important part of your postgraduate training. These training sessions are mandatory and are allocated per year of study.

Year 1

  • Presentation skills via host institution (0 points)
  • Research Integrity via host institution (0 points)
  • How to start the way you mean to go on for PhD Students and Supervisors (0 points)
  • Resilient Researcher (10 points)
  • Enterprise and Industry Skills (for CASE students only) (10 points)
  • MANTRA - a free, online non-assessed course developed by the University of Edinburgh, with guidelines to help you understand and reflect on how to manage the digital data you collect throughout your research -  (0 points)

Year 2

  • Science Communication with Impact (10 points)

Year 3

  • Making the Most of Your Final Year (0 points)

Year 4

  • Making the Most of Your Final Year (optional)

Related links

Training Overview