Postgraduate Research Handbook
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The University of Southampton’s Doctoral College co-ordinates a range of skills training and personal development opportunities for doctoral researchers, designed to complement the training delivered at academic discipline level.
The training is organised within a number of themes which run through all stages of candidature, with a mix of compulsory and optional courses (online and face-to-face provision). Professional Development Programme information can be found on the PGR Development Hub.
In addition, all new doctoral researchers must complete the following mandated training. Failure to complete successfully the mandated training below is a failure to meet the progression requirements and so will result in a failure to progress.
Postgraduate researchers commencing their studies in 2021/22 must complete the following by the time they undertake their Academic Needs Analysis:
Please note that you'll need to be logged into your Office 365 account in order to access the mandatory training page, which is hosted on the new PGR Development Hub SharePoint site
Online training on data management will be provided by the Library and should be completed by all doctoral researchers commencing their studies in 2021/22 by the time of their first formal progression review.
All research students who undertake teaching activities must adhere to the Research Students Who Teach: Policy and receive appropriate training which as a minimum, an initial general training course on teaching skills (currently Orientation to Teaching and Demonstrating Steps 1 & 2) must be completed before starting to teach/demonstrate.
A module-specific annual induction for the relevant module(s) the research student is involved in must also be completed. Orientation to Teaching/Demonstrating Step 3 (or a discipline-based equivalent) must be completed within 12 months of starting to teach.
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