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Other University Training Providers

SDDU (Staff and Departmental Development) run loads of courses and workshops on a wide range of subjects that will help you with your PhD and beyond.  Workshops include: Information Skills, Research Methodology, Avoiding Misconduct in Research, Ethics, Managing your Research Degree, Ownership, Confidentiality and Secrecy in Research, Writing for Research, How to manage your supervisor, Poster Presentation, Thesis presentation, Effective Oral presentations, CVs, Time Management etc.  Get the full list and much more besides by visiting the website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sddu/gts/index.htm.

The Language Centre, runs a number of workshops and courses in how to write good english and not just for non-native english speakers!  However, it does also have a good course on academic writing for non-native speakers.

ISS (Information Systems Services) run many courses/workshhops on programming, the use of software packages such as SPSS, Dreamweaver, Origin, Access, Endnote and Word.  A very popular course was using Word to write long documents.... such as a thesis!

The Library run courses/workshops on bibliographic databases/endnote etc.

Careers Centre - advice on CV writing, applying for jobs etc.

Having spent two formative years training under the Faculty of Engineering training scheme, they have turned me into not only a scientifically aligned individual, but established in me a sense of direction to achieve every goal I pursue in my PhD research.

I would highly recommend these courses. They progressed at the right pace and although involved setting aside a considerable amount of time to complete they were thoroughly worthwile!

Training Profile

Maha Al-Rayes
Postgraduate Researcher, School of Civil Engineering