Training Opportunities for Battery Technology and Energy Storage Researchers and Staff

The Faraday Institution is committed to the training and continuing professional development of UK-based battery researchers. We encourage members of our research community, and others working in the sector, to take a look at the courses listed on this page and consider if they could develop and enhance knowledge and skills.

Selecting Training

Where do you hope to be in your career in 3-5 years’ time?

What skills could you gain or enhance in the next 12 months?

How might a specific course further your career development goals?

Watch our webinar ‘Training Budget Triumphs!’  from April 2023 for more information and for ideas of how to use your Faraday Institution Training Budget, if eligible. Details in the Career Development Template.

Using Faraday Institution Training Budgets for Knowledge and Skills Development

In Faraday Career Week 2025, to help researchers get inspired about how to utilise their training budget we asked Training Champions to spotlight success stories from around the research projects about use of training budgets in previous years and what researchers gained from attending the various courses.

Read their testimonials here.

Testimonials

Have you attended an excellent training course?

We would value testimonials. Please email [email protected] with the course details and a short quote that can be shared.

We encourage researchers to recommend similar “evergreen” courses by emailing us at [email protected].

Training Courses

In April 2023, the Faraday Institution Early Career Researcher Committee compiled the following list of continuing professional development, residential and short courses from our partner universities and other reputable providers. The intention is that the list is used by members of our research community, other academics and industrial partners to consider training options, to further develop their abilities. The majority of these are offered as online courses.

Please note that the Faraday Institution is unable to vouch for the quality of all offerings.

The courses are categorised according to the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF). The Vitae RDF is designed for researchers pursuing an academic career or thinking about applying the skills developed during a PhD in another career. Training has been categorised as follows:

A. Knowledge and intellectual abilities: The knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research.
B. Personal effectiveness: The personal qualities and approach to be an effective researcher to include boosting researcher professional identity.
C. Research governance and organisation: The knowledge of the standards, requirements and professionalism to do research along with research management, business and entrepreneurship skills.
D. Engagement, influence and impact: The knowledge and skills to work with others and ensure the wider impact of research to include effectively presenting to a wide range of audiences and producing quality scientific writing.