You need to:

• attend conferences and meetings regularly and show your awareness of other researchers in your own and related fields.
• build and maintain co-operative networks and working relationships with your supervisor(s), colleagues and peers within the University and the wider research community.
• be aware of and subscribe to appropriate virtual networks and sources of support such as VITAE and virtual subject specific networks).

You need to:

• be aware of the impact that your own behaviours and actions have when building a healthy working relationship with your supervisor(s).
• understand your own behaviour and your own impact on others when working in and contiributing to the success of formal and informal teams.
• be able to work in teams (both inside and outside of academia) on complex projects.
• be able to reflect on the quality of such team work and to solve problems as they arise.
• be aware of all the stakeholders in your work, and consider and act upon the best ways of interacting with them.

You need to be:

• aware of techniques of giving and receiving feedback effectively.
• able to listen, give and receive feedback and respond perceptively to others.