Trainings and development

Question 1

Which parts of the training plan address your greatest weakness

Question 2

Human and Veterinary Vaccinology (Oxford) course appears to be expensive, and there might be more economic options. Can you justify why you have selected this course?

Question 3

What training will you undertake to develop your leadership skills

Answer 3

o I will go to University of Oxford future leaders innovation programme, or Research Leadership Development Programme
o Online workshop how to be a Principal Investigator, Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series

Question 4

Your primary supervisor has already got 5 doctoral students. Are they really going to have time to supervise you?

Question 5

How would you manage supervisors from different institutions and cities? And make sure that the supervisory efficient and in place?

Question 6

What will you get from your various research visits, how will they help you in your future career? What do you plan to do during research visits?

Question 7

Why have you chosen to do DF and PDF at oxford vaccine group?

Question 8

Have your considered research visits outside your supervisors institutions/outside uk?

Question 9

Why you are the best candidate

Question 10

What difference that NIHR DF will make?

Question 11

You have 4 supervisors, what if they have conflicts?

Question 12

Why not include a course on NVivo to analyse the interviews?

Question 13

Can you clarify the qualitative experience of Dr Samantha Vanderslott who will supervise you on qualitative research

Question 14

Clarify the costs for the qualitative interviews. You had not included any cost for transcribing the interviews nor equipment assuming you are doing in person/phone interviews rather than online interviews (you do not explain how you will conduct the interviews)

Question 15

Why do you want to do methodological research in CHIM?

Question 16

How Pre-doc helped your DF?

Question 17

Why should we fund this study now not later?

Question 18

Why OVG is the best place to do this DF, not IC and Cambridge or Liverpool?

Question 19

Can you tell me what you have learnt from your previous simulation training? How it helped your own simulation?

Question 20

Can you tell me what you have learnt from your systematic review course and how it helped your own SR?

Question 21

Can you tell me what you have learnt from the bayesian course?

Question 22

Can you tell me what you have learnt from the RCT course?

Question 23

Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years time?

Question 24

What’s your trajectory of your career?

Question 25

How often will you be meeting your supervisors

Question 26

Consider how your supervisors will support you personally and what you will learn from them- give examples where possible.

Question 27

How will you develop your leadership skills apart from training?

Question 28

What aspects that have been covered in your Bayesian modeling training?

Question 29

What aspects have been covered in your qualitative research training?

Question 30

What aspects have been covered in your clinical training?

Question 31

What have your learnt from your experience in conference and meetings in your pre-doc?