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This three-day, non-residential GRADschool takes multi-disciplinary teams of postgraduate researchers through the importance of effective communication in promoting research outcomes on a theme of “sustainability” via a variety of media (e.g. film, press releases, posters for the public, ‘Fame Lab'-type presentations and Twitter™ tweets) to two different audiences: secondary school students (11-16 yrs old) and local City policymakers.

The Enterprise School aims to increase the employability of Ph.D. students and research staff by improving their enterprise skills in a highly interactive, group working environment. The school is based around the creation of a business presentation using real cases and the skills they develop during their time at the school including opportunity recognition, finding a market, intellectual property, basic finance and building the key team. The first Enterprise School was attended by 34 students from the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Durham and Lancaster

WouldLikeToTeach was created to help doctoral researchers and research staff find opportunities to get teaching experience in Higher Education. Similarly, it was created to help Heads of Departments and Course Leaders to find people who are able to deliver teaching on an hourly-paid basis in Higher Education. Those ECRs looking for teaching opportunities need to create a profile on the site by clicking on the register link at the bottom-left hand of the page. They are then prompted to complete a profile so that it can be searched by potential employers. Currently, registration is resitrcited to members of the Bloomsbury Colleges (i.e. Birkbeck, IoE, SAS, SOAS, LSH&TM, Royal Veterinary College, School of Pharmacy, UCL). Employers do not need to register. Instead, they can either 'Browse teachers' or they can 'Search teachers' where you can specify keywords for particular search fields.

This is a series of meetings where attendees create their own agenda. Attendees leave and join at their leisure.

A collaborative venture to increase awareness of career opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry by providing five-day training courses. The industry led sessions are structured to include presentations and interactive activities to engage the participants and ensure they acheive their learning objectives.

A two day work shadow opportunity in the pharmaceutical industry to: - obtain an understanding of the structure and function of pharmaceutical companies - get a taste of the every day work and the skills required - increase knowledge of potential career opportunities within the industry.

This is a student led project which aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the use of new media technologies.

An interactive one-day workshop who's aim was to provide research staff with enhanced understanding of the ways in which they can use Web 2.0 technologies in a professional manner to promote their research reputation and external esteem. The workshop was created as part of the ongoing White Rose Collaboration between the universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield which provides training and development opportunities for research staff across the three institutions. The workshop ran three times from February-July 2009, once at each institution. The trainer was Lawrie Phipps.

Languages @ Leicester is a programme of non-specialist courses run by the University of Leicester's School of Modern Languages in partnership with De Montfort University. It offers participants a chance to learn another language, even if they have never done so before. Funding from the University's Research Training Innovation Fund means that each year subsidised places are available for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.

An interdisciplinary postgraduate-focused research conference designed to develop communication skills, team work and innovation as well as fostering international cooperation.