Training Needs Analysis

Training Needs Analysis

Each new research student must complete a formal Training Needs Analysis in consultation with his/her Director of Studies at the beginning of his/her research degree using the appropriate form.

The aims of this initial Training Needs Analysis are:

  1. to identify the relevant skills you have developed in your academic and/or professional life to date
  2. to identify the skills you will need to acquire and/or develop in order to complete your research degree and to become an effective researcher
  3. to identify what training is required in order to develop these additional skills

Each research students should subsequently revisit this analysis on an annual basis (most sensibly to coincide with Annual Monitoring (RDB9)).

The aims of subsequent Training Needs Analysis are:

  1. to identify the research and transferable skills that you have developed in the course of your research degree
  2. to highlight training needs identified in previous TNA which have not been met (and to explain why they have not been met)
  3. to identify additional skills, not identified in previous TNA, which you will need to develop to complete your research degree

Notes on how to complete the TNA form.