The UKCRIC Skills and Training Network offers an opportunity for postgraduate students, post doctoral researchers from UKCRIC institutions as well as those in the early stage of their careers in industry, to meet and exchange ideas, support each other and gain skills to develop their careers as engineers of the future.

The Skills and Training Network, formally the Doctoral Skills Network, has been established and expanded to include early career industry associates as well doctoral students from UKCRIC member institutions. UKCRIC values the mutual benefits of providing a platform for learning and knowledge exchange between those that have chosen academic careers and those that have gone on to work in industry. UKCRIC’s Skills and Training Network hosts and curates webinars and training workshops and provides links to other research support groups such as ERA, C-DICE and the Faraday Institute.

For recent graduates and early career industry associates UKCRIC’s Skills Training Network offers:

• A subscription to the UKCRIC Skills and Training Network (STN) (sign up to the Skills and Training Network email list required)
• Opportunity to attend online and in-person skills events and relevant conferences
• Curation and amplification of relevant skills events and opportunities in the STN newsletter and via social media

Doctoral Skills Network Leadership Team:

Professor Sergio Cavalaro

UKCRIC Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training Lead
(Loughborough University)

Professor William Powrie

UKCRIC Convenor
(University of Southampton)

Jennifer Knight

UKCRIC Skills Manager
(University of Southampton)

Sign Up to the Skills and Training Network

Visit our Contact us form to sign up to the Skills and Training Network to receive our regular updates on UKCRIC activities. 

We will contact you by email to inform you of training and networking events. If your organisation is a university, please use your university email address when you register and agree to us contacting you with the email address provided.

From time to time we may also ask you to take part in surveys to gather information about the research being conducted in the UKCRIC Network of Institutions.