retraining programme
Fellows must undertake a tailored training programme. This can involve updating in a previously familiar field or initiation into a new field and is expected to take about 100 hours per year. The content and organisation of the training programme has to match the needs of the research project and enhance the Fellow's future employability.
The training programme is unique to each Fellow and may depend on a number of factors such as the length of career break, the field of research and whether the Fellow is returning to a different area of research than before the career break. Examples of training include attendance of undergraduate and postgraduate lectures, participation in training workshops, learning new investigative and analytical techniques, research meetings, conferences, learning to use new laboratory techniques and computational modelling.
The Daphne Jackson Trust runs four training courses each year for Fellows. Every Fellow should have attended each course by the completion of their Fellowship. Trust courses are one day courses and can contribute to the 100 hours per year retraining Fellowship requirement. Travel to and from Trust courses may be claimed from the extraordinary expense account. Courses are run by professional trainers and attendance is particularly beneficial for participants because of the opportunity to network with other Fellows from different scientific backgrounds who are on a similar career path.
The four courses that are run each year:
Work Life Balance
Research is just one of the things you do. This course will provide strategies to be more effective in your work; strategies to balance the demands of work with other parts of your life and actions that can make a difference to your work and life.
Presentation Skills
Get your message across. Feel more confident. Connect with your audience. Make an impact so your audience wants to listen. Enliven your presentation. This course will show how to unpack a complicated idea and make it accessible.
Media and PR Skills
The aim is to demystify the journalism process, explain what journalists want from scientists for different media as well as how to give a good radio interview and provide print quotes. All training will focus on presentation, communication skills and content, with an informal style so as to encourage confident and effective communication with journalists in the future.
Professional Skills
Get that job - Job searches, job applications, CV presentation. Get that funding - writing successful applications.
To download a copy of the guidelines for training courses please click on the link below:
Guidelines for training courses