Planning Your Training You have probably already completed a Training Needs Analysis and your Training Plan. If you have not, these are now to be completed via PhD Manager – under the ‘Training and Development’ section of your Dashboard. It should be completed in consultation with your supervisor and be reviewed annually. It is recommended that you undertake 10 days of researcher development activities per year. We interpret this broadly to include the following: participation in workshops and online courses in the Researcher Development Programme delivery of conference presentations or posters participation in seminars, external training etc