The School of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University is a thriving multidisciplinary research environment, hosting Teacher Education, Life Sciences, Sport, Psychology and Sociology subject areas where research students are welcome. We identify supervisory teams that ensure that our PhD students get relevant support and experience, and achieve their research aims. We particularly welcome students who have a solid academic background in relevant subject fields, evidenced by their past performance. This research project will investigate the value of building resilience within the curriculum in higher education and the benefit of this for our student populations, staff and also future employers. Resilience can be defined as the capacity or ability to adapt to changing situations be that through stress, challenge or adversity. One of the aspects that we aim to equip our new graduates with is resilience, with the aim of generating future employees that can adapt to undertake different roles by applying what they have learned during their studies or prior experience. For the majority of students we would usually do this through the lens of challenge, often via assessment but also in other ways such as placements. The complexities of modern life lead to a combination of stress, challenge and adversity for many students and so they may be unaware that they are developing a key employability skill simply by managing their life. A key aim would be to investigate how resilience is perceived, taught and experienced by students, staff and future employers and to determine if further adaptations are required to embed resilience within the curriculum and how this might be brought about.