GRADschool course outline
The Edinburgh local GRADschool is an experiential 4-day non-residential learning course, designed for doctoral researchers in the last 18 months of their PhD, aiming to raise participants’ awareness of their personal and professional transferable skills.
Course outline
The course uses small facilitated groups to enable you to review your experiences at intervals as the GRADschool progresses.
It offers you the unique opportunity to:
- take a step back from your research and consider your next step
- develop a wide variety of personal and professional skills
- build a network with students from across Scotland
- develop self awareness and self confidence
The course aims to help you develop:
- communication, networking, time management, and team work skills
- awareness of your own individual qualities and strengths
- self-confidence in research and beyond
- career management skills and raised awareness of the range of career options open to PhD graduates.
All courses are hard work, but great fun and are designed specifically for PhD students in the last 18 months of their PhD.
"This programme should go on FOREVER! It was very helpful and certainly a must-go for any PhD student. The programme helps students to develop skills necessary for PhD research and beyond, and consider their career beyond the PhD"
PhD Student, 2011
This article was published on Jan 18, 2013