University of Cambridge Training
Personal and Professional Development
PPD On Demand
PPD On Demand provides short online learning resources for staff.
Booking PPD Training
University staff can book PPD training online. Themes include achieving results, communication, innovation and change, leadership, negotiating and influencing, people development, relationship building, and strategic focus.
PPD Flyer Mailing List
Receive and electronic copy of the PPD flyer every term.
The Pathways to Impact online tool
The tool is intended for use by researchers, academics or support staff working with them. It provides a step-by-step guide to planning research impact activity with links to many useful resources. It can be used to help write a Pathways to Impact plan for an RCUK grant, or more generally to plan for impact activity.
IT Skills Training
The University Information Service offers a wide variety of face to face and online IT Skills training to support all University members.
Researcher Development Programme
The University runs many courses for researchers, around themes such as writing skills, communication, leadership, research funding, teaching, and PhD progression.
The Careers Service
The Career Services offers University of Cambridge members a range of services including:
GradLink: the Careers Service alumni database with graduates who can give career advice
CamCareers email - a targeted careers information email service
Career Service Library books , including
- 'Network to get work', Alan Jones ( Createspace)
- 'Career Networking', Brian Sutton (Industrial Society)
- 'Powerful Networking', John Lockett (Orion Business Books)
- 'Brilliant networking', Steven d'Souza (Pearson)
Sourcing opportunities
- Search Vacancies & Opportunities
- Attend careers events and explore our sector pages for specific fields
- Identify relevant external job boards
- Network to extend your search
- Consider recruitment agencies in some areas
Making applications
- CVs and Cover Letters – discover our most popular publication
- Application forms – find out what employers are really looking for
- Speculative applications – use particularly in areas where opportunities are rarely advertised
Interviews and selection
- Interviews – preparation is key for face-to-face, phone or Skype interviews
- Psychometric tests and assessment centres - online practice tests, explanations and advice
- Negotiating with employers - interview timing, offers and start dates
External Sites
Social Media Resources
The Value of Blogging and Microblogging
Benchmark your research – Mendeley, Stats, ORCID profile, Scopus and ScienceDirect
Webinar – How to promote your article for maximum impact
How to turn your thesis into an article
Improve your knowledge and skills in publishing academic research
Big Ideas – latest trends and innovations in publishing and academic
Networking – how to make the most over every opportunity and promote your research to your peers
Understanding Different Research Perspectives
This free course, Understanding Different Research Perspectives, explores the development of the research process looking at the different perspectives from which an issue or phenomenon can be investigated, and highlights the main methodologies that can be used to investigate a business issue. By looking at different perspectives/approaches to issues and phenomena, different research methodologies and ethical considerations this course will sustain the development of a research study, from the initial idea of what to investigate; to the elaboration of specific research questions; the research design, strategy and methodology.
Skills assessment form
Impact Evaluation
Context Diagnostic for Conservation
Co-Production
Social Innovation Toolkit
Running Workshops
- http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2214
- http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2216
Partnering Toolbook
Human centred design tool kit
Service Design Tool kit
Wildlife consumer behaviour toolkit
Writing a lit review
- https://guides.library.vcu.edu/lit-review
- https://www.kent.ac.uk/learning/resources/studyguides/literaturereviews.pdf
Mentoring plans: a really useful tool for PIs and their lab members
DIY Toolkit
Engage Researchers' Academy
Professional development for researchers, realising their potential for impact.