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Personal and Professional Development
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities Personal and Professional Development programme offers training opportunities to support your research journey.
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities Personal and Professional Development programme for postgraduate researchers uses a competencies-based Training Pathway to help you to define your needs at all stages of your research. It offers an annual programme of formal and informal sessions across the Faculty and within your School.
You will be able to:
Conduct a Training Needs Analysis in your first year of study.
Attend several mandatory sessions, comprising an introduction to the Faculty, guidance on managing the supervisory relationship, using the Training Pathway, preparing for the probationary review and completing the research degree.
Design your own annual Personal and Professional Development (PPD) Plan with the advice of your supervisor/s.
Our programme is mapped to the Researcher Development Framework and structured around the following key themes:
Induction
Personal Qualities and Self-Management
Research Management
Professional and Career Development
Communication and Dissemination
Completion
The PPD Induction module is mandatory and runs three times per year: October (HUMRR003), February (HUM-R01Y) or June (HUM-R02Y). Each module comprises four sessions:
Session 1: An orientation to the Graduate School's structure, governance, research integrity, project planning, and available research facilities and community.
Session 2: A practical look at the supervisory relationship, covering mutual expectations and strategies for managing it effectively from the outset.
Session 3: An introduction to the Faculty's research training pathway and the Vitae Researcher Development Framework, with hands-on completion of a Training Needs Analysis and initial PPD plan for your first year.
Session 4: A guide to preparing for the probationary review—including evidence, document submission, research communication practice, and writing strategies—with a pre-session requirement to draft a 300–400 word outline of your research project.*
This is accompanied by four online short courses: Data Protection, Health and Safety, Fire Safety, Diversity in the Workplace.
*Not required for students registered on the PhD by Publication research degree.
For further information, please contact humgrad.enquiry@uea.ac.uk