Training and development for doctoral students

About the project

Supporting you as you build your research career.

Support and development

A doctoral programme requires independent study. Depending on your project, you will spend much of your time reading, experimenting, designing, analysing, writing, and re-writing.

But you won’t work alone. You will have a supervisory team of expert academics and practitioners who will guide your research. You will also build networks among your fellow researchers at Manchester Met, across the North West, and throughout the country.

You will have the opportunity to develop yourself personally and professionally in areas that will support you to flourish both as a researcher and on one of the many career paths open to you upon completion of your doctoral studies.

We can offer a variety of resource and support opportunities. From getting help with your writing to developing your research communication skills with our annual events and competitions.

Development opportunities

• Three Minute Thesis Discover the international competition that challenges doctoral students to describe their research to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. Find out more

Three Minute Thesis

• Doctoral Student Conference Celebrating the achievements of previous conferences. Find out more

Doctoral Student Conference

• Images of Research Our research communication competition - using photography to showcase the work of doctoral students and research staff. Find out more

Explore the Doctoral College

• Doctoral College Discover the work we are doing to support our postgraduate research students - giving them a supportive and stimulating environment in which to thrive. Find out more

Doctoral College

• Academic leadership Learn more about our commitment to doctoral students and the support we can provide you with to achieve your research study goals. Find out more

Academic leadership

• Doctoral Services Doctoral Services provide strategic leadership on doctoral activities across the University. Get contact details for faculty and topic leads. Find out more

Research areas