Developing next generation leaders in environmental science
Rothamsted Research provides PhD students with a structured training programme, which will enhance their career prospects, make them more competitive in the workplace and give them a clear understanding of the role of a Research Scientist. In addition, we have a monitoring scheme that ensures each student is making satisfactory progress, is receiving adequate supervision and is completing all mandatory parts of the training programme.
The aims of the programme, and the monitoring scheme that it includes, are that:
Element | Mandatory | Recommended |
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First Year | ||
PhD induction | + | |
Planning your PhD | + | |
Poster Design | + | |
Develop personal training programme | + | |
Presentation Skills | + | |
Technical Writing (or Year 2 by discussion) | + | |
Attend student symposium as a poster presenter | + | |
Present a departmental seminar introducing your research topic (15-20 minutes) | + | |
Complete and submit report after 9 months | + | |
4 additional days of generic training | + | |
Literature survey (first 6 months) | + | |
Journal club | + | |
Intermediate Years | ||
Attend studeent symposium presenting a poster | + | |
Submit second year report | + | |
10 days of generic training | + | |
How to get your work published | + | |
Specialist courses for research | + | |
Journal club | + | |
Final Year | ||
Career Management (2 days) | + | |
Thesis Writing and Viva Skills | + | |
Attend student symposium as an oral presenter | + | |
Full seminar within departmental programme | + | |
6 additional days of generic training | + | |
Submit thesis | + | |
Journal club | + |
Course offered | Duration 1 credit = 0.5 days |
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PhD Induction Course | 2 credits |
Planning your PhD | 2 credits |
PhD Health and Safety | 1 credit |
Basic statistics and Introduction to GenStat | 4 credits |
Design and Analysis of Experiments part 1 | 4 credits |
Design and Analysis of Experiments part 2 | 4 credits |
Linear regression | 4 credits |
Non-linear regression | 2 credits |
Endnote for beginners | 1 credit |
Introduction to Multivariate Statistics | 4 credits |
Good scientific practice | 2 credits |
Getting your work published | 2 credits |
Thesis writing | 2 credits |
Technical writing | 4 credits |
Planning your PhD | 2 credits |
Communication skills | 2 credits |
Making meetings work | 2 credits |
Career management | 4 credits |
Handling difficult conversations/situations | 2 credits |
Diversity | 1 credit |
Time management | 2 credits |
Panel interviewing | 4 credits |
Microsoft Outlook | 2 credits |
Successful grant writing | 1 credut |
Introduction to project management | 4 credits |
Introduction to finance | 2 credits |
Developing presentation skills | 4 credits |
Poster skills | 2 credits |
PowerPoint introduction | 2 credits |
PowerPoint intermediate | 2 credits |
PowerPoint advanced | 2 credits |
Word introduction | 2 credits |
Word intermediate | 2 credits |
Word advanced | 2 credits |
Dreamweaver | 2 credits |
Photoshop | 2 credits |
Excel introduction | 2 credits |
Excel intermediate | 2 credits |
Excel advanced | 2 credits |
Please contact the PG Office for any training queries at rres.graduate-studies@rothamsted.ac.uk.