Skills Ambassadors: What's it all about?

Background

Ambassadors serve as representatives for the Graduate School generic skills training programme for research students and support the Director of Postgraduate Training, Dr Steve Gaskin, in expanding and enhancing the development programme for PhD students.

Ambassadors lend support by acting as a gateway for skills information into schools, helping to co-ordinate school-based training events (and idea generation), encouraging other PhD students to attend sessions (particularly incoming and 'detached' students) and generally promoting an enhanced postgraduate training culture in their schools. The Director of Postgraduate Study in schools (an academic member of staff) also support and encourage ambassadors to help champion training initiatives at the local level.

Meet the Team

The following research students have agreed to act as skills ambassadors in their respective schools for academic year 2006/07. Why not contact them and help generate ideas for generic skills training in your own school?

Bonnie Green	Humanities & Social Sciences	b.green@exeter.ac.uk
Sarah Carr	Physics	sc283@exeter.ac.uk
Paul Jones	Business & Economics	paul2.jones@exeter.ac.uk
Max Frenzel	Biosciences	m.frenzel@exeter.ac.uk
Ivonne Hoeger	Psychology	I.hoeger@exeter.ac.uk
Stephanie Darrie	Modern Languages	smd202@exeter.ac.uk
Alison MacDonald	Engineering, Computer Science & Mathematics	a.j.macdonald@exeter.ac.uk