Research students

We aim to provide you with hard and soft transferable skills to assist you in your studies and your career. You will find here information resources, relevant training and development resources and access to careers support planning.

Development opportunities

Career planning

As a research student you have access to:

Both services aim to help you explore and manage your career choices, whether this is inside or outside of academia.

More on career planning

Further resources

  • IT Services provide additional courses to those found in the Skills Forge. This includes software packages and programmes for researchers including Microsoft Office and Adobe applications.
  • The Academic Support Office provides courses in mathematics with online resources through the VLE and sessions for using the VLE itself  in teaching.
  • The Centre for English Language Teaching (CELT) provides intermediate and advanced English language courses and tuition, as well as general English for research and academic purposes.
  • The Graduate Students' Association provides information and links on academic support and welfare, as well as representing graduate needs on a variety of committees.
  • The Vitae website offers resources and initiatives on researcher development in higher education and research institutes. Details of the Researcher Development Framework (RDF) can be found here.
  • York Information Connections provides information on departmental specific electronic resources from the University Library. For more information about making the best use of the Library resources in your subject area please visit: http://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/subjectguides.
  • Members of the Humanities Research Centre can access further resources via http://www.york.ac.uk/hrc/