School of Arts and Humanities

Postgraduate Skills Training

During your time as a postgraduate researcher at the University of Cambridge the University, your School, Faculty and Department will support your training and development needs. This page contains essential information about transferable skills training.

Training in this area provides a valuable forum for personal and professional development that will enable you to:

  • enhance your personal effectiveness
  • develop ways to communicate more effectively
  • make more informed choices about your future career

Transferable skills training is specially designed to help you to successfully complete your doctoral thesis and prepare for life beyond the PhD. You will receive expert advice and tuition in areas such as project management, writing skills (including writing research proposals and writing for publication), digital resources, languages, organising seminars and conferences, presentation skills, and much more. Whether you plan to establish a career in Academia or to move into a different field, such training will support your development as an effective researcher and enable you to position yourself strongly in an international and increasingly competitive job market.

The School has been working closely with the School's faculties and departments to develop the provision of transferable skills training for arts and humanities postgraduate researchers. For further information please see the following links:

Graduate Development Programme (including School-specific and University-wide courses):

Language Training:

Language training in French and German will be delivered by the Language Centre in 2010-11, where a tailored programme has been designed to meet the needs of postgraduate researchers in the arts and humanities.

Faculty and Departmental Training:

If you have any questions, views or ideas about current or future training, or if you are a postdoctoral researcher and would like to attend a particular course, please contact Dr Matt Lane, Postgraduate Skills Training Officer, School of Arts & Humanities on: email Matthew.Lane@admin.cam.ac.uk, tel. 01223 746823.