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The UCL Graduate School created and leads a collaborative skills training programme for local HE institutions. Its purpose is to allow research students in the participating institutions to enhance their generic and transferable skills, through attending training at other member institutions. Students benefit from access to training at the range of participating institutions, and also through meeting and networking with students outside the confines of their home institution.

Graduate School engagement with UCL Royal Literary Fund Fellows to provide individual tutorials and writing workshops for students

Career Management and Employability Skills Training - Impact Assessment Project

This one-day course is aimed at UCL Entrepreneurs and covers how to exploit research to launch a high-tech Start-up, using students’ own resources and minimal funding.

The increased emphasis on entrepreneurship facilitated by the additional funding from EPSRC aligns closely with UCL’s policy on researcher development, and has enabled the creation of a new and innovative programme of activities for research students.

Recruitment of Careers Service Staff to enhance the programme of careers focused skills for research students to include: Employer-led Skills Workshops Programme; Careers Advisor-led Workshops Programme; PhD Employers Fora.

We ran a half-day event aimed at academic staff managing postdoctoral research staff to inform them of the requirements and opportunities for developing their researchers.

A cross-disciplinary event aimed at giving early career researchers an insight into different careers in the academic environment and also the variety of routes into an academic career.

The web based automated Single Training Booking System provides a central place for customers to browse and book the learning and development provision offered by UCL's main training and development providers. Users can book onto training events, reserve lists and may register their course interests.

This is a brief summary of the organisational model that we have adopted in order to work more closely with Schools, Faculties and Departments and 'partner' with them in understanding and providing for the needs of their particular staff in a ‘bespoke’ way where appropriate. This positions us better to target our resource towards meeting real needs, while striving for enhanced alignment between UCL’s research strategy and individual aspirations. This new model also enables us to work more closely in partnership with other key people deployed at a Faculty or Department level, such as Research Facilitators, Research Leaders, HR Consultants, Faculty Managers etc.