Training Framework

The proximity of NCL and UNN allows ONE Planet to provide a series of core cohort activities to best develop the cohort experience, skills and expertise of students and ensure the development of graduates with the required skills. Our students will have a clearly structured route to a PhD degree (Table 1), with fixed milestones (e.g. induction, assessment of training needs, development of the research proposal, annual progress review), which will allow students to reflect on their training & development needs and offer formal feedback on progress.

	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3/4
Induction (Oct) Consider cultural values/expectations to promote inclusion, dignity and respect	Attend 1-day UNN or NCL induction. 1-day split-site *ONE Planet* induction	Present poster at induction day	Selected presentations at induction day
Annual (Oct) Residential Activity Centre (RAC) Consider access and early advert, inclusion, dignity and respect Build on previous research and develop new ideas with all cohorts and end-users (incl. environmental mini-projects and sandpit for end-user interaction)	1^st Cohort attend 3 days of RAC, incl. 1-day transdisciplinaryR3 workshop AIM: Provide new students with a general introduction to each other, to nature of PGR research and to transdisciplinarity (communication/ team working skills across disciplines)	2^nd Cohort attend 3 days of RAC to present/conduct reflexive science, enhance c learning and plan internships; incl. 1-day R3 workshop AIM: Reflect collectively on first year and prepare for Year2, discuss multi-disciplinarity, impact and communication	3^rd Cohort attend 2 days (incl. 1 day R3)/4^th Cohort attend 1 day of RAC to share experiences and present lessons learned for peer-to-peer learning AIM: Share experiences and support other cohorts, discuss options with end-users
Annual TNA (Jan) Individual needs assessment. Define development stage and level of performance	First TNA submitted. Examine industrial placement options/policy internship	Follow up on previous TNA, with reflexive assessment and plan next year and careers training (“life after a PhD”- LAP)	Review and reflect on previous TNA and execute the plan for “LAP”
Placements/CASE studentship	1-4 week placement or external collaboration	4-12 weeks placement or external collaboration	1-4 week placement or external collaboration
Policy internship	PhD student can develop proposal	Spend up to 3 months at host organisation	Spend 1-4 weeks at host organisation
Annual RAC for final year students (Mar). Consider access, early adverts	Attend 1 day AIM: to be informed on the career training available	Attend 1 day AIM: plan academic and non-academic career trajectories	Tailored 4-day course AIM: Support final stage of PhD and advice for LAP
ONE Planet Annual Conference (Jul)	4-day conference: incl. 2-day research conference (all DTP students across all cohorts present research plans/outputs) and 2-days lectures on post-PhD options/international science opportunities/recent research
Annual Science Night (Sep)	Encourages public engagement and training in key skills needs for non-technical audiences and to get research highlights in the public domain
Interdisciplinary discussion series (monthly)	Co-designed and co-delivered with industry and government partners to encourage broad and critical thinking about science, e.g. Pint of Science external talks
Reading group/ Writing Retreats	Monthly journal reading group for all stages and bi-monthly 1-day writing retreats for later stage PGRs