Day 1
| Time | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0930 | Registration | |
| 1030 | Course director’s introduction | The course director sets out the aims and objectives of the course, explains how it works and introduces you to the course team who are there to support you. |
| 1100 | Team icebreaker |
A high energy first exercise introducing you to working with members of your team towards a common goal. |
| 1200 | Group objective setting | A session designed to identify and share your individual and group objectives for the week. |
| 1300 | Lunch | |
| 1400 | Interview workshop | A career management exercise involving preparation for, and participation in, mock interviews for a position of your choice, with the opportunity to discuss interview techniques and receive feedback from peers and tutors. |
| 1830 | Dinner | |
| 1930 | Group review | Facilitated discussion and activities led by your team tutor designed to help you reflect on the day. This session enables you to identify individual and team progress towards your objectives, useful points or learning and time to action plan for the next day. |
| 2030 | Opportunity for informal discussion |
Day 2
An interactive skills session aimed to introduce you to tools and techniques of preparing and giving effective presentations. Consultancy case study A case study exercise set within the context of a management consultancy team. It introduces the aims and challenges of creative and effective problem solving, investigating and understanding the needs of others.
Time Activity Description
0900
Team development exercises
Short practical indoor or outdoor activities which are designed to enable you to challenge yourself in a safe environment and your team to develop effective ways of working together.
1300
Lunch
1430
Free time
1515
Presentation skills
1545
1845
Dinner
1945
Group review
Facilitated discussion and activities led by your team tutor designed to help you reflect on the day. This session enables you to identify individual and team progress towards your objectives, useful points or learning and time to action plan for the next day.
2045
Opportunity for informal discussion
Day 3
| Time | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0900 | Introduction to the day |
The course director introduces you to the objectives of the day. |
| 1015 | Policy making and debating case study |
A case study about public involvement in science and the decisions society has to make as a result of scientific developments. This session is designed to help you explore how to make powerful arguments and present them with passion and conviction to a well informed audience who may have diametrically opposed views. |
| 1315 | Lunch | |
| 1445 | Action planning |
This session is aimed to encourage you to reflect on the learning and to commit to an action plan for personal and career development. |
| 1600 | Final group review | An in depth review of the course’s activities led by your tutor, designed to help you focus on what you have learned about yourself, as a team and about how you will relate this learning back to your PhD and future career. |
| 1715 | Last team challenge | The course director introduces a surprise closing activity. |
| 1815 | Dinner | |
| 1915 | Director’s final review | The course director sums up the course and the learning outcomes achieved in the past few days. |