As a graduate students you are expected to spend the equivalent of 10 days each year receiving formal training in research and transferable skills. Apart from a small number of events which are considered compulsory, and about which you will be notified by email, we encourage flexibility in training so that you can fit it around your other commitments such as laboratory research. It is very important that students liaise with their supervisors when considering whether to take a course, especially when this will require an absence from the laboratory for one or more days.

Students are expected to keep a record of all their training which will be checked by the Director of Graduate Studies. Failure to keep a record of training could lead to failure to transfer to D.Phil. status or failure to have D.Phil. status confirmed. You should keep your record in your Graduate Information and Records Folder, which can be obtained from Lucinda Risius. 

Details about training opportunities and how to book places for them can be obtained at the Divisional Skills Portal.

You will also be notified by email about some training opportunities.