College of Social Sciences

The PGR Opportunities Hub provides professional development training and opportunities for our PGR community. These activities have been designed to support the development of transferable skills in doctoral students in line with Domains B and D of the Researcher Development Framework‌. 

As part of the PGR Opportunities Hub there are two streams of staff funding which academic or professional services staff within the College of Social Sciences can apply for to support the personal and professional development of their postgraduate research students.

The first stream of funding is for student internships supervised by academic or professional services staff within the College.

The second stream of funding is for staff who wish to provide additional professional development activity for their students not currently provided by the University or College of Social Sciences PGR Opportunities Hub.

Do you have ideas for PGR Opportunities Hub initiatives?

Each year, significant innovations are made to the PGR Opportunities Hub. In recent years, we have introduced:

• a newly aligned collaborative training programme with Research and Innovation Services
• an extended, week-long online PGR induction
• a new peer-to-peer PGR workshop development initiative

We would love to hear your ideas for how we could grow and evolve our support for PGRs transferable skills development. If you have any ideas for how we could further develop the Hub then please contact the College Employability Officer.