Past Training Events
The Royal Society of Biology's training programme supports biologists who want to gain the skills to accelerate their career development
Since the training programme began in October 2014, a wide range of courses have taken place to meet the needs of all sectors of the Society's membership; students, teachers, industry/employers, academics, science communicators and the professional registers.
Science communication, writing and presentation skills
- Science communication
- Science podcast production
- Sound recording
- An introduction to exhibition design
- Introduction to print, radio and television for biologists
- Persuasive scientific report writing
- An introduction to grant writing
- Presentation skills
- Writing for a non-specialist audience
- Expert report writing
- Taking accurate notes at meetings
- Networking
Management skills
- Project management
- Managing teams in a laboratory environment
- Facilitation
- Leadership insights for professional bodies
- Strategy in practical for professional bodies
- Volunteer management
Diversity, equality and well-being
Teachers (HE and Schools)
- HE Stem biosciences new-to-teaching workshops
- Dissection workshop at the Royal Veterinary College, London
- Anatomy course for teacher at Imperial College London
- Using technologies in science education
- Gopher Science Labs UK teacher training days
Commercial awareness
- Scientific entrepreneurship
- Patently valuable
- Commercial awareness for life scientists
- Fraud awareness
Specialist/technical skills and knowledge
- Plant evolution
- An introduction to drug discovery
- Drugs used in the treatment of asthma
- Mathematica software training
- R software training
- An Introduction to Statistics for Biologists Using R
- An Introduction to COSHH for Technical staff
- Laboratory Health and Safety
- How the brain works
- Professional Development for technical Staff
Biology art and photography
- Nature photography
- Microscopy art; secret world of bees
- Microscopy art; butterfly painting
- Microscopy art; painting and studying insect lifecycles
- Painting Pollinators
The Society runs repeats of popular courses. For the list of courses now open for booking, please see the training events section.
If there are any courses that your organisation is interested in running in-house, or if you would like to register your interest in a course, please contact us at training@rsb.org.uk