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St Andrews GRADskills Programme
The University provides an extensive and award-winning generic skills development programme – GRADskills – for all of its early career researchers, including PhD and MPhil students.
It includes awide range of training courses,workshops, symposia, conferences, study visits and other events from which students can select tomeet their individual training requirements, academic interests and career ambitions.
GRADskills aims to support doctoral students and research staff in developing transferable skills to enhance their research capabilities andwiden their future employability. It has been designedwith input fromcurrent postgraduates, post- doctoral fellows and academic supervisors, and as a result of recommendations fromthe UK Research Councils and other national authorities. Its high quality ismaintained by combining the expertise of St Andrews’ own academic and support staff with that of external consultants and training professionals. GRADskills is nowrecognised as one of UK’s leading generic skills training programmes,winning the national Times Higher Education Award for ‘Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers’ in 2007-2008.
An introduction to GRADskills is given at Postgraduate Induction, and doctoral students are kept up-to-datewith ongoing programme developments and opportunities throughout the year via the dedicated GRADskillswebsite and GRADskillsmemos.
In addition to its own courses, participation in the GRADskills Programme also allows postgraduates to take advantage of events offered in collaborationwith other Scottish universities and national organisations such as ‘Vitae’.
For the newpostgraduate researcherwhowants to realise their personal potential and achieve their research and career goals, GRADskills aims to helpmake themost of the postgraduate experience at St Andrews. Formore information,why not visit the generic skillsweb pages at:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/gradskills
Some comments from participants on GRADskills courses:
“The presentation provided useful, practical and specific information which was most welcome.”
“Pace was good– easy to understand.” “Good formation and a lot of fun.”
“Worthwhile course – thank you.” “Interesting, interactive, informative and fun – thank you.” “Very encouraging and helpful – great atmosphere.” “Extremely helpful – very well delivered.”
Dr William Carmichael McIntosh, Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1882-1917 and first director of the Gatty Marine Laboratory – c. 1865
© Rona Lind
© Rona Lind
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