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Take a few minutes to understand each of these attributes, and ask yourself how you feel about what they involve and how you might develop them. Then read our definitions and about some of the opportunies you will get to learn more and become confident in these skills.

Professionalism, employability and enterprise

We promote professional integrity and provide opportunities to develop the skills of communication, independent and team working, problem solving, creativity, digital literacy, numeracy and self-management. Our graduates will be confident, act with integrity, set themselves high standards and have skills that are essential to their future lives.

You'll be developing your professional identity throughout your studies and can also take up a whole host of opportunities such volunteering, undertaking placement work, becoming a student ambassador, or tackling formal courses offering training in specific skills. We have a fantastic Careers and Employment Service who work closely with our programmes, offering a wide range of workshops, one to one support, employment fairs and much that will help you to present yourself confidently for whatever employment or enterprise you target. If you're not sure yet what you're looking for, being professional and organised about your studies can be a good place to begin.

Learning and Research Skills

We foster intellectual curiosity and provide opportunities to develop effective learning and research abilities. Our graduates will be equipped to seek knowledge and to continue learning throughout their lives.

Whether conducting field research on a glacier, or treating a patient in our health simulation suite, our research informed courses will help you to develop these key skills. Be curious about your discipline - join or even establish an academic society, look for stories in the news and documentaries on tv, listen to podcasts, come along to research seminars, keep an eye out for the chance to get involved first hand in student staff projects and research activity. Remember we've lots of friendly experts ready to help.

Intellectual depth, breadth and adaptability

We encourage engagement in curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular activities that deepen and broaden knowledge and develop powers of analysis, application, synthesis, evaluation and criticality. Our graduates will be able to consider multiple perspectives as they apply intellectual rigour and innovative thinking to the practical and theoretical challenges they face.

The diversity of our learning community is something of which we are very proud. We'll encourage you to engage with those whose life experience and views are very different from your own, you can join students from every discipline in our Connect programme, take courses to boost your digital capabilities and attend free a range of public events from exhibitions to challenging public lectures.