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The Faculty of Social Science provides a wide range of training opportunities for our Postgraduate Research (PGR) students. The Personal and Professional Development (PPD) programme features approximately 100 taught sessions per annum and provides high quality training in research and professional skills. Between 30-35% of its annual attendees are drawn from other UEA faculties.
Much of our PPD training is delivered online, allowing us to offer it across the SeNSS ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership and to 35 additional subscribing institutions. Approximately 8500 postgraduate researchers and academic staff, drawn from right across the UK, attended our online training series last year. The overall PPD programme duly provides UEA’s postgraduate researchers with many opportunities for networking, as well as cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional contact, which exceed those ordinarily experienced at other institutions.
Exploiting income generated by subscriptions to the online training series, the ‘Social Sciences Postgraduate Researcher Training Fund’ enables our postgraduate researchers, particularly those without a studentship/bursary or other means of financial provision, to attend training events, or to make conference presentations, at other institutions across the world. In these and other ways, the Faculty of Social Science is continually seeking to create a vibrant training environment for its own postgraduate researchers, but also one which is accessible to postgraduate researchers from across UEA and the country as a whole.
Our training programme aligns with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) guidelines. We have also designed a series of training pathways, aligned to subject-areas, to guide you through your professional development.
You will follow a training programme that satisfies your individual needs and equips you for your future career. Your individual pathway will combine a range of developmental activities that will support and enhance your postgraduate research. Your goal will be to develop a range of research, discipline-specific and professional skills and attributes that will support the development of your research project, the timely completion of your thesis and equip you for a variety of future careers.