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Find out more about the support and opportunities available to our taught and research students.
Taught Students
- UCL Transitions Programme
The UCL Transition Programme supports all first year students in their transition to university. This transition can be a particularly stressful time for students as they adapt to a different way of life and new academic demands. Mentors are at the heart of the Transition Programme. They provide peer support to first year students through regular group mentoring meetings and peer-assisted learning sessions.
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UCL Careers
UCL Careers provides advice, guidance and events to help you when you start job hunting. They will also support you after you graduate from UCL.
Graduate Study
Further your career or make a unique contribution to your field of study by choosing a graduate degree at UCL.
Why a PhD?
If you're thinking about doing a PhD, take a look at the videos posted on #whyaphd. Tweet @UCLPALS your questions about doing at PhD with #whyaphd
The Scientific 23
The Scientific 23 website was made possible by the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award 2013 awarded to Sarah-Jayne Blakemore for her scientific achievement, her suitability as a role model and her project proposal to promote women in STEM.
UCL Innovation and Enterprise
If you've got a great business idea, but don't know how to take it forward, contact UCL Advances, a dedicated centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction, which helps anyone who wants to learn about, start, or grow a business.
Volunteering
Get skills for your future careers and personal development by volunteering while at UCL. The Volunteering Services Unit (VSU) is UCL Union’s dedicated facility for students who want to get involved with volunteering projects in the local community. You can give as much or as little time as you can spare; learning new skills, making friends, and contributing to other peoples’ lives.
Research Students
- PALS Postgraduate Peer Group (PPG)
Get in touch with the PALS Postgraduate Peer Group (PPG) who organises events and activities, as well as represents you at meetings:
Why not also see a list of events listed on PALS's Events pages?
- Planning Your Career
UCL Careers
UCL Careers provides advice, guidance and events to help you when you start job hunting. They will also support you after you graduate from UCL.
- Find out about the specific careers advice for research students offered by UCL Careers.
- Sign up for UCL Careers automatic alerts about events and opportunities.
UCL Advances
If you've got a great business idea, but don't know how to take it forward, contact UCL Advances, a dedicated centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction, which helps anyone who wants to learn about, start, or grow a business.
Volunteering
Get skills for your future careers and personal development by volunteering while at UCL. The Volunteering Services Unit (VSU) is UCL Union’s dedicated facility for students who want to get involved with volunteering projects in the local community. You can give as much or as little time as you can spare; learning new skills, making friends, and contributing to other peoples’ lives.
UCL Neuroscience Careers Network
The UCL Neuroscience Careers Network seeks to promote the professional development of UCL Neuroscientists. The Network provides opportunities for neuroscientists to meet their peers, to share ideas, experience and initiate collaborations. It also provides a platform for careers advice and the dissemination of information regarding jobs, training and funding opportunities. The Network is organised by a committee made up of representatives from a variety of departments under the UCL Neuroscience Domain and includes both post-doctoral researchers and PIs. It regularly organises events such as grant writing, interview techniques etc.
Academic role models
A list of academic role models from SLMS. Includes information on their career path, career highs and lows, and advice for doctoral students.
External Fellowships
L'OREAL/UNESCO WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Fellowships of up to £15k; grants to female postdoctoral researchers that can be spent on indirect research costs, such as childcare.
WELLCOME TRUST Career re-entry fellowship scheme
For scientists who have taken a career break of at least 2 years
THE ROYAL SOCIETY: Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
This scheme is for excellent scientists in the UK at an early stage of their research career who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances such as parenting or caring responsibilities or health issues. Female candidates are particularly invited to apply