Graduate Research School
Personal Development Planning (PDP)
Personal Development Planning (PDP)
Personal Development Planning (PDP) is about explicitly thinking your way through your studies and recording the process. Engaging in it will help you to gain greater insight into what and how you are learning and to plan, review and take responsibility for your own learning and your professional and career development.
These are some possible means of recording your development for which the GRS offers support:
- The GRS Progress File, a paper base tool developed by research students
- Pebble Pad, an e-portfolio tool, to which all students have access
- RDF Professional Development Planner, a tool using Excel developed by Vitae