Graduate education programme
Important: please discuss your education and training needs with your supervisor and read the Graduate School of Life Sciences’ guide about the Core Skills Training Programme
A compulsory seminar programme for first-year graduate students (except for SDP MPhil students), which has been jointly established by the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. This consists of a weekly series of theoretical seminars presented by senior researchers during Michaelmas and Lent Terms. There are no compulsory seminars in Easter Term.
There are 16 seminars in total each year. Each graduate student is expected to attend a minimum of 5 graduate seminars in their first year, and to have attended 10 seminars by the end of their second year.
Lecturers often provide abstracts and examples of suggested reading; please check each event for further details.