to book a place on any run in this academic year
This course is composed of three half-days and will cover a range of skills that will help you raise your profile, and build the networks that can help you succeed, whether your career aims are in academia or beyond it. This course is collaboratively delivered across the over 15 UK Higher Education Institutions and during this workshop you will get the opportunity to network, online, with researchers based at these institutions.
Places on this course are prioritised for postdoctoral and early-career researchers. To attend this course, you must agree to attend all sessions.
Registration for each run closes 11 working days prior to the first session.
The course will run over three separate half-days, each one-week apart. Topics are run in pairs as a 3-hour morning or afternoon (90min + 90 min). The course runs online, hosted on Zoom.
Some sessions will have resources to review or brief exercise to complete before the session starts.
This session will be co-delivered by: Natasha Rhys (King's), Francina Clayton (York)
This session will enable you to:
Running time: 90 minutes
Led by: Victoria Sedman (Nottingham) and Marina Bush (Cambridge)
Running time: 90 minutes (or run with Session 1 as a half-day)
Led by: Paul Monahan (Queens Belfast) and Lisa Rhodes (Portsmouth)
Running time: 90 minutes (this topic will usually run with Session 4)
Led by: Nicole Horst (Cambridge) and Andrew Holmes (Liverpool)
Running time: 90 minutes (or run as a half-day with Session 3)
Led by: Ruth Winden (Leeds) and Inês Perpetuo (Imperial)
Running time: 90 minutes (or run as a half-day with Session 6)
The session ends with an opportunity to reflect back and to make an action plan for your networking and profile-buliding plans beyond the course.
Led by: Rui Pires Martins (QMUL), and Lydia Klimecki (Bristol)
Running time: 90 minutes (or run as a half-day with Session 5)
This programme is a collaboration between Queen Mary University London, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, Cardiff University, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Imperial College London, King’s College London, University of Leeds, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, University of Portsmouth, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Sheffield, and University of York.
This project is a collaboration enabled by Researcher Developers and Careers Consultants from the Researchers14 network. To keep being able to offer this course, we would like to invite other institutions to join the collaboration!
Each run offers places for 10+ for postdoctoral researchers for each partnering Higher Education Institution.
To partner, each institution needs contribute, plan, support, or co-deliver/facilitate on at least one of the six sessions.
We have developed a core set of delivery and administrative resources to support new partners joining our delivery team.
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact Dr Rui Pires Martins for more information.
It was good to see there is not 'one way of networking'. People are comfortable with different networking styles, so it's all about finding the style that fits you.— Former participant of Networking & Profile Building, University of Cambridge
Being given practical advice on how to present ourselves on social networks was really valuable.— Former participant of Networking & Profile Building, Queen Mary University of London
This workshop was so different and mind-opening from other ones I attended before. Quite unusual interactive activities, such as Padlet and Kumospace made the workshop excellent. — Former participant of Networking & Profile Building, University of Portsmouth