Professional development

Your development

We offer award-winning specialist training, one-to-one careers advice and mentoring from academics and professionals.

Your supervisor will work with you to identify your needs and create a personalised doctoral development programme. This might include taking taught modules alongside your research to help you achieve your goals. We’ll make sure you learn skills relevant to you and your career plans.

Internships

Whatever your discipline, you can take a break from your research to go on placement in the UK or overseas. This could be with a private company, a hospital, a museum, a government department or an Non-Governmental Organisation. We’ll help you look for potential employers.

Training

If you want to develop your research skills, we can offer expert guidance, including:

• Help from our student skills and development centre
• Mathematics and Statistics Help (MASH)
• Free English language classes - you can take up to two 90 minute classes each week to support your study

Ambition

If you have an idea for a business, a public engagement event or a non-profit enterprise we’ll offer support and advice. We have a dedicated enterprise team working full-time to help students develop their ideas.

Public engagement

Sheffield is an innovator in the field of public engagement and there are many opportunities for you to get involved. You could even set up your own project.

Develop your skills, share your ideas

There are many opportunities at Sheffield to present and share your research through seminars and conferences.

Take your research expertise to business

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are one of the longest standing schemes available for industry collaboration. Research students are typically funded to work with businesses to solve problems identified by the industry collaborator.