Meeting skills training requirements
Our postgraduate training programme meets a number of the skills required by postgraduate researchers as specified by the Joint Statement of the Research Councils’ Skills Training Requirements for Research Students (2001).
This statement is a useful framework to consider the development of the personal and professional skills of postgraduate researchers.
The specific skills that clearly map on to the Netskills programme include:
- A6 - An ability to summarise, document, report and reflect on progress
- C4 - Use information technology appropriately for database management, recording and presenting information
- E1 - Write clearly and in a style appropriate to purpose
- E2 - Articulate ideas clearly to a range of audiences, formally and informally through a variety of techniques
- E4 - Contribute to promoting the public understanding of one’s research field
- F1 - Develop and maintain co-operative networks and working relationships with ... the wider research community
- G2 - Develop ways to improve employability
- G3 - Demonstrate an insight into the transferable nature of research skills to other work environments and the range of career opportunities within and outside academia
- G4 - Present one’s skills, personal attributes and experiences
