Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Training and Development

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Postgraduate Research and Postdoctoral Training and Development Team looks after our postgraduate researcher community via the College Medicine and Health Graduate School website, and offers specific support and resources for Postgraduate Research students, postdoc, early career researchers and integrated clinical academic training.

General information

PERCAT

Access PERCAT for:
Career development

  • Funding
  • Transferable skills
  • Science communication
  • Public engagement
  • Industry
  • Science policy
  • Mentoring
  • Teaching
  • HEA Fellowships Beacon Scheme
  • Networking
  • Postdoctoral/ Early Career Researcher Academic Committee
  • Postdoctoral/ Early Career Researcher Postdoc Representatives

Access PERCAT intranet for:
Updates
Research Development Fund Grants and Fellowships
Mentoring

Fellowships and Grants Academy

  • Training
  • Application advice
  • Funding
  • Wellbeing
  • Support/mentoring

International Collaboration

  • Integration of international staff members
  • International Engagement Oversight Committee
  • EU Networking Task Force

Integrated Clinical Academic Training Pathways (ICAT)

  • Intercalated degrees
  • Conference fund for clinical students
  • Elective scholarships
  • Student development scholarships
  • Grants
  • Programme
  • Completing a higher degree (e.g MD or PhD)
  • Clinical Lectureship posts and Post-doctoral Fellowships
  • Family leave support for clinical lecturers
  • Post-doctoral fellowships
  • Workforce Deanery 
  • INSPIRE
  • Academic Clinical Fellowships 
  • Academic Foundation Programme
  • Clinical Academic Training for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
  • MRes in Health Research
  • Fellowship scheme

Library services

  • General library services
  • FindIt and ResourceLists
  • iCite
  • Feedback
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright signposting

College of Medicine and Health

  • Undergraduate study
  • Intercalated programmes
  • Postgraduate study including
  • Postgraduate Taught
  • Postgraduate Research
  • Postgraduate Combined
  • Short courses (CPD)
  • Health and Immunisation forms
  • Research in the College of Medicine and Health
  • Location
  • Our institutes
  • Research facilities
  • History of Birmingham Medical School
  • Key staff in the College
  • Academic staff in the College of Medicine and Health
  • International student section
  • Outreach and widening participation 
  • Athena SWAN
  • Birmingham Fellows

Clinical Collaboration

Research Knowledge and Transfer Office

  • Research Support and Development Team
  • Management and International Engagement
  • Postdoctoral Training and Business Engagement and Technology Transfer
  • Partnership Management and International Engagement 
  • Research integrity
  • Mayo Fellowships

RKTO intranet including application support

  • Application lifecycle
  • Intention to submit and pink form
  • Costings and finance
  • Using human tissue and clinical research
  • Patient and Public involvement
  • Clinical trials
  • Research governance
  • Ethics
  • Contracts 
  • Fellowship support
  • Technology transfer
  • Submission
  • Development team

Clinical Research Compliance Team (CRCT)

  • Quality Management System (QMS)
  • Training and workshops
  • Frequently asked questions (FAQs) 
  • Governance and Ethics
  • Student/Trial Management and Training
  • Laboratory
  • Human Tissue
  • Development and conducting compliance reviews
  • Glossary of terms 

CMH Graduate school

  • Courses
  • Scholarships and funding
  • Opportunities in CMH
  • MRC IMPACT Studentships
  • Research council funding
  • Doctoral loans
  • Funding for prospective students
  • Postgraduate experience
  • Postgraduate taught courses
  • Postgraduate research
  • Postgraduate alumni profiles

Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR)

  • BEAR services
  • Storage services
  • Problems and questions
  • Acknowledging BEAR in publications

Global Health Research Network

  • Current global health research signposting
  • Funding opportunities
  • Support and resources signposting

Support/mentoring


College of Medicine and Health PERCAT

  • Resilience
  • Wellbeing
  • Researcher skills
  • Mentoring
  • Mental Health

Fellowships and grants academy

  • Research support
  • Career development and support
  • Researcher communities 
  • Wellbeing
  • Parenting and maternity
  • Central staff networks

Library services

  • Academic skills centre (ASC) (intranet access)
  • Research support (intranet access)
  • Teaching support (intranet access)

Global Health Research Network

  • Resources
  • Contacts
  • IT and Communications Methods for Global Working
  • Childcare fund for conference attendance
  • Parent and carers intranet resource
  • Global health training centre

Funding

CMH Graduate School

  • PhD opportunities in CMH
  • Scholarships and funding
  • Opportunities in CMH
  • MRC IMPACT Studentships
  • Research council funding
  • Doctoral loans
  • Funding for prospective students

Global Health Research Network

  • Internal funding opportunities
  • Internal funds - pump priming for research
  • Funds - travel and developing collaborations
  • External Funding Opportunities 

Fellowship and Grants Academy

  • Funding opportunities

Fellowships

Training and events

BEAR Training (intranet access)

  • Introduction to Linux
  • BlueBEAR
  • AI and Deep Learning
  • BEAR Carpentries

Clinical Research Compliance Team training page

Fellowship and Grants Academy

  • Grants Academy Support
  • Internal courses at the University
  • External and online training courses

People and Organisational Development (intranet access)

  • Personal development resources for those that work at UoB
  • Mandatory training
  • Webinars
  • New staff member inductions
  • Psychometric and Behavioural tools available via POD Recruitment and selection
  • Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)
  • The Leadership Cafe
  • PDR support for reviewers and reviewees
  • Research skills support
  • The Coaching Academy 
  • The mentoring scheme
  • Linkedin Learning
  • Canvas

Find out more

  • For specific support and resources for our postgraduate researcher community see our College of Medicine and Health Graduate School website
  • For specific support and resources to the postdoc/early career researcher (PERCAT) community, please go to the PERCAT website
  • For specific support and resources for integrated clinical academic training see the ICAT website

For general enquiries on MDS Postgraduate Research , please contact

E: MDS-GradSchool@contacts.bham.ac.uk 

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