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This optional programme is open to all research students and provides a Durham University qualification that certifies a well-defined level of ability in a range of skills.

An Award that is presented annually for excellence in doctoral research supervision.

Roberts funding has enabled a major expansion in the Durham Postgraduate Training Programme - the expanded programme is described here. We have continued to update are programme and provide details of the expanded programme running in 2007-8.

Durham is attempting to provide an intergrated approach to enterprise activities for early stage researchers.

This project aims to identify diversity barriers to recruitment to and successful completion of research degree programmes and produce recomendations as to how programmes can address these issues.

There is little insight into how postgraduate students? conceptualise research or into the research concepts that postgraduate students find particularly challenging - this research project is designed to address these issues.

Intensive three-day generic skills training and networking opportunity timed to take place during the period when distance doctoral students are resident for departmental summer schools.

ELLI is an online learner-profiling questionnaire, designed to find out how learners perceive themselves in relation to seven dimensions of learning power.

Bringing training on information skills and Endnote software together, using a cross-institutional team teaching approach, enables research students to put advanced literature searching and reference management skills into practice in this two-part course.

As part of a regional JISC-funded initiative, we will build web-based tools to provide a regional web presence which will enable advertising of postgraduate development opportunities accross the northeast region, a means for researchers to electronically book onto activities at other institutions and to provide a means to electronically pass attendence records, etc. back to a participant's home institution.