 Pharmacology is a biomedical subject taught to science and medical students. We have seven full-time and two half-time academic staff supervising 28 PhD students and spread over four research locations on campus. It is important that our PhD students identify strongly with the discipline and develop an esprit de corps to access the academic and peer support needed during their PhD studies. To this end, we organise two research days each year when each student gives an oral presentation of their research similar to a scientific conference with session chairpersons, panels and questions. We continue to encourage all PhD students to present their work at national and international scientific conferences and to visit other research labs. They are also encouraged to attend and ask questions at our new Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series with invited speakers. Together, these initiatives help the students to better integrate as a team to know who to ask for help outside their own research group and to form a peer support network. In addition to their research work, each PhD student contributes 120 hours of tutoring per year. This can be undergraduate laboratory demonstrating or supervising fourth-year or master's research projects. This large teaching workload can be viewed negatively, leading to a poor quality learning and teaching experience. Our new teaching practice module aims to improve their skills and consequently the experience of the undergraduates they teach. It will give the PhD students academic credit for their teaching, thus incentivising them to do their best and encourage them to discuss and reflect on their teaching experience and to develop best practice. Overall, this project is an opportunity for us to enrich the PhD experience.