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Building Better Bonds: Skills for all kinds of Relationships

Audience: PG research, PG taught, UG

Date: Thursday 16 October 2025

Times: 17.00 to 18.00

Key details: An introduction to how early experiences shape our relationships, with practical tools for healthier communication, boundaries, and connections.

Assertiveness Skills

Audience: Academic staff, Professional staff, Research staff

Date: Monday 27 October 2025

Times: 14.00 to 16.00

Programme: Dignity and Inclusion Portfolio

Creating Habits for Balance and Success in your PhD

Audience: PG research

Date: Tuesday 16 September 2025

Times: 09.30 to 11.30

Programme: GRADskills

Key details: Learn to develop habits for being better organised and exercising and eating well to feel healthier and calmer, so you can reach your thesis submission day in good health and with a smile on your face!

Training for New PGR Supervisors

Audience: Academic staff, External, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Thursday 18 September 2025

Times: 14.00 to 16.00

Programme: Academic Staff Development Programme

Microsoft Word: Controlling Document Design

Audience: Academic staff, PG research, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Thursday 18 September 2025

Times: 14.00 to 16.30

Key details: Learn skills to create more complex and efficient layouts (town-centre,in-person delivery)

Expressing criticality in academic writing

Audience: PG taught

Date: Monday 22 September 2025

Times: 14.00 to 15.00

Programme: MSkills

Key details: This workshop will help you identify the key language to express criticality and evaluation in academic writing. We will look at specific examples to better understand how to effectively convey criticality in an effective register.

Deadline Dread: Strategies to Stay Calm and Focussed

Audience: PG research, PG taught, UG

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025

Times: 17.00 to 18.00

Key details: This online workshop has been developed for those who are feeling anxiety around completing work to deadlines. The Course will take place in Student Services, Eden Court, The Scores. If unable to attend in person a link to teams is also provided.

Microsoft Word: Producing a Thesis

Audience: Academic staff, PG research, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Thursday 25 September 2025

Times: 14.00 to 17.00

Key details: Skills required to create and manage a long complex document in MS Word.(town-centre,in-person delivery)

Grant writing: writing for success

Audience: PG research, PG taught

Date: Friday 26 September 2025

Times: 13.30 to 17.00

Programme: GRADskills

Programme: MSkills

Key details: Great writing is integral to successful grant applications. Strong research ideas are often diluted by imprecise, diffuse or repetitious writing. Find out how to identify and avoid common pitfalls in application writing.

Postgraduate Researcher Welcome Event

Audience: PG research

Date: Monday 29 September 2025

Times: 10.00 to 12.00

Programme: GRADskills

Key details: For all new PhD, MPhil, MSc(Res), MSt(Res) and DProf students.