NorthWestBio TRAINING PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
NorthWestBio’s three pillars of training are:
These will be supported by credit bearing bi-monthly cohort skills activities. These activities will be student-led but facilitated by an individual supervisor from one of the partners. They aim to enable students to learn from each other, to develop as a network and to broadly engage with programme supervisors in the cohort. Each pillar will enable students to tailor their own development as they progress through their PhD, and to advance their core skills and expertise by undertaking credit-awarded activities that are of most relevance to them.
Our training programme aims to provide students with an environment that will enable them to reach their career goals while acquiring integrated skills using cutting-edge bioscience technologies to study animals, plants, and their pathogens. We also aim to create an ecosystem that will empower students to fulfil their ambitions and that equips them with:
- broad training in science communication,
- project management,
- entrepreneurship and,
- innovation.
We envisage this set up in a supportive and collegial environment, built on diversity, inclusivity and shared values, and enriched by ambition, creativity and enterprise.
Our network brings together outstanding and complementary expertise in science and technology, underpinned by a range of supporting and enabling technologies at each institution that relates to our core aims through the careful selection of collaborative projects and through robust, bespoke training, NWB DTP aims to create multi-disciplinary bioscience researchers, with quantitative skills and the training to analyse and interpret complex biological data sets. Our graduates will exhibit an outward-looking, team-based approach to delivering impactful research and be equipped with the skills needed to communicate with peers, stakeholders and the public.