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Wolfson Institute of Population Health
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  2. Study with us
  3. Postgraduate Research
  4. Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Science
  5. Enrichment Programme

Enrichment Programme

Students in the courtyard at a writing retreatWe run a programme of activities, in addition to student's research-based training, designed to provide general and transferable skills and knowledge. Our Enrichment programme aims to:

  • Provide experience-based training in key transferable skills to take forward beyond beyond their PhD

  • Add value and complement QM Academy PGR training programme available to all PGR students

  • Promote ownership of research, skills-based training and future career steps

  • Create a long-lived support network across cohorts and enable peer-peer learning

We have run the following sessions:

Planning your personal development goals (1st year PhD cohort),

Facilitator - Dr Ele Groves

An active and engaging workshop where structured and guided activities help you identify your strengths and areas to target for your personal development to support you to achieve your longer term goals. If you struggle to find time to focus on your own development and would like to try a strategic approach to your development during your PhD studies, this workshop is for you!

 

Research Integrity and Open Science (1st and 2nd year cohort)

Facilitators - Dr Ele Groves and Nick Ballou

Learning objectives for this session:

  • To understand what is meant by research culture and its impact and importance;
  • To understand my role and responsibilities in practising and promoting positive research culture;
  • To understand what constitutes poor research practice and misconduct and how to raise concerns at QM
  • Analyze four threats to the credibility of research: hype, bias, fraud, and negligence;
  • Evaluate how open research practices can protect against these threats.

 

Public Engagement training (1st and 2nd year cohort)

Facilitator - Sarah Barnes, Centre for Public Engagement

 

Writing retreat – (1st and 2nd year PhD cohort)

Facilitator - Dr Ele Groves

A one-day off site retreat at The Royal Foundation of St Katherine, pictured above.

Our students have attended external courses, summer schools and online workshops; some are specific research-based training, others aimed at improving more general or transferable skills: 

  • UK EQUATOR Centre Publication School; designed for early-career researchers and students in health research, with a focus on clinical research- https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/graduate-courses/courses/equator-publication-school
  • European Bioinformatics Community for Mass Spectrometry Winter School; aims to bring together the users and developers of computational mass spectrometry tools, as well as academia and industry - https://eubic-ms.org/
  • Genome-Wide Data Analysis summer school programme jointly organised by the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam - https://armacad.info/summer-schools
  • Diabetes & Epidemiology summer school organised by the Danish Diabetes Academy on Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism for PhD students- https://ddeacademy.dk/events
  • RADIANCE offers online training in data science to quantitative researchers involved with biomedical and social data. Courses and modules are offered under three themes: data stewardship; analysis and reproducibility - https://radiance.org.uk/ 

QMUL support

The Careers and enterprise team have various options and resources available including 1:1 appointments. All accessible via their website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/careers/how-to/improve-your-cv-or-application/

There is also general careers information and other support specific for PGRs and ECRs - https://www.qmul.ac.uk/careers/our-support/for-phds-and-early-career-researchers/

Full access to resources is via QMplus: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/enrol/index.php?id=19856

The Doctoral College coordinates the PhD development programme and the Skills points database for all QMUL PGR students - Courses

 

Other support

Externally, Vitae have lots of examples, advice and resources for PGRs; As a student at QMUL you have access to the members area and resources (log in with your QM email and password) - https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers

QMUL have subscribed to LinkedIn Learning; you can log in and find out more here:https://elearning.qmul.ac.uk/learning-applications/linkedin-learning/

 

This page specifically contains advice on creating an academic CV: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers/pursuing-an-academic-career/how-to-write-an-academic-cv

 

You may also have heard of a new format of narrative CVs first proposed by the Royal Society as the ‘Resume for Researchers’. This is being adopted increasingly in grant applications so it is worth knowing about the structure of these. You can find out more information via the RS website: https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/research-culture/tools-for-support/resume-for-researchers/

Another source for examples of narrative CVs is via the CRUK website: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/applying-for-funding/narrative-cvs

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