Skills Training for Postgraduate Students
To be successful postgraduate studies must not be narrowly focused on the speedy production of a dissertation but must comprise a wider spectrum of training in relevant research and career development skills.
The School of History and the Faculty of Arts are keen to offer postgraduate students a varied and effective portfolio of training courses to ensure that students are in a position to tackle their research tasks and develop their wider skills as scholars. These courses are available to all postgraduate students, but for students in taught postgraduate programmes and First-Year PhD students attendance at the Training Seminars is compulsory and will be monitored. [View Programme] There is also a requirement imposed by the University that all First-Year PhD students attend training courses totalling the equivalent of ten days. Postgraduate students are also advised to pay attention to the information provided by the office of the University Co-ordinator for postgraduate skills training (see http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/capod/students/pgresearch/)
In addition to the Skills Training Seminars, the School offers a range of other training opportunities, in particular language training for research at beginners and advanced levels (Latin, French, German and Italian).