Certainly a year or two back the funding available to departments (well,
the chemistry department in Cambridge, anyway) for transferable skills
training for research council funded PhD students was if anything
excessive and we were being very actively encouraged to find interesting
and dynamic ways to spend some of it... things may have changed/be
different elsewhere, but I suspect if you can go to whoever administers
the transferable skills scheme where you are with a case including which
"skills" you expect to develope from that hideous list of RCUK
transferable skills codes you might be in with a shot.
Good ol' Roberts. It may be his fault we have to sit through "training"
on writing research papers from people who have no idea how papers are
written in our field (three years ago now, and I'm still bitter), but
there must be something useful to be got out of it? Right?
Rosy Hunt
Michael Kenward wrote:
> If you receive funding from a Research Council, it might have a scheme.
>
> Also ask the university. Some put on courses for research students. I do a
> very short lunchtime introduction down at Sussex.
>
> You might want to keep your interest secret from your profs. They can
> complain when research students threaten to spend time away from the lab.
>
> MK
>
>
>
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> Subject: [PSCI-COM] Funding for short Science Comms course
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> Can anyone point me in the direction of funding sources for short-term
> science comms courses? Interesting course here http://bit.ly/8ZmgtW, but
> steep fee for skinted PhD student like me.. Any help gratefully pounced on.
> Thanks.
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