Skills Training in Research Degree Programmes - Tapa dura

This book aims to tell the story of the development of generic research skills training and its wide-ranging impact on the UK research degree. It examines the politics of skills training and its implications for academic culture as well as providing essential support and advice for practitioners and policy makers through examples of best practise.

Richard Hinchcliffe is the Director of the Graduate School Skills Programme of the University of Liverpool. His research background is in American Literature. Tony Bromley is a graduate development manager in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Manchester. His research background is in Materials Science. Steve Hutchinson led and delivered research training programmes for PhD and postdoctoral researchers at the Universities of York and Leeds and was a regional co-ordinator of the UK GRAD programme. He now runs an independent Training Consultancy.