PGCTS for PhD Students

Format of PGCTS

• Take 6 modules over 3 years
• Postgraduate Award of 3 modules, to include DC950 Doctoral Skills 1
• If you take 6 modules over 3 years you will more than meet the recommended 10 days of PGR professional development training a year.

Core Modules

3 core modules:

• DC900 Doctoral Skills 1
• DC902 Doctoral Skills 2
• DC903 Doctoral Skills 3

Optional modules

• Year 1: We recommend DC953 Team Working in a Research Environment
• Year 2: Choose one further optional module
• Year 3: Choose one further optional module

Registration

• Your department will register you if you are part of Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physics
• Other PGR students: register interest

• Individual modules: register via individual module pages

• Postdoctoral Researchers who wish to attend any optional modules may contact us to enquire about availability.

Your portfolio

• Your on-line portfolio forms the basis for the assessment and is a log of the evidence you have collected, the modules you have completed and the research you've undertaken.

• For PG Cert or PG Award: Submit portfolio six weeks before the independent examiner's visit in December. Please complete and submit a portfolio submission form and send to transferable.skills@warwick.ac.uk 
• If you are a PGR in SEM and intend to submit your portfolio to the next exam board, please answer this very short 1-question survey.

Assessment/ accreditation

• Course Regulations
• Assessment is by portfolio
• Tasks are assessed by your Supervisor/feedback Supervisor or PhD Advisory Panel/Board
• Modules are marked complete by your Director of Graduate Studies, or by the PGCTS Programme Director
• Submit 6 modules for the Certificate and 3 for the Award.
• You may submit more modules for consideration.