Plan your professional development

Attending this course really helped me to be more aware of my skills and be able to articulate them in a job interview

The Researcher Development Framework was developed by Vitae, following consultation with universities, students, funders and employers.  It sets out the knowledge, skills and experience required at each stage of an academic career, from when you start as a new PhD student to becoming a postdoc or lecturer, going all the way to professor.   By the end of your PhD, it is expected that you should have gained experience and knowledge in each of the areas below. To help you with this, we've mapped all of our training against the framework, along with suggestions of how to put your skills into practice and gain tangible evidence of them for your CV.