The Missenden Centre has released a list of its specialist seminars taking place in 2010 to support researchers, supervisors and senior academic staff. The full list is as follows:

1. Effective supervision |  6/7 May 11.00 start
2. Making a successful research grant proposal |  20/21 May 11.00 start
3. Research Strategy and the REF |  10/11 June 4.30pm start
4. Examining doctoral candidates |  17/18 June 11.00 start
5. Facing up to the new agenda |  1st/2nd July 4.30pm start

The Missenden Centre approach to running training seminars is very “hands-on”: generally you’ll be given the opportunity to specify your own particular agenda and the rest of the group will respond to your questions and issues. I’ve previously taken part in a research strategy seminar run by Missenden and can confirm that it was very useful, if a little intense at times!