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    Building a Successful Research Career - ONLINE
    Provider   Organisational and Staff Development Unit

    This is the online version of the core SPARK class, Building a Successful Research Career and can be taken as an alternative to the face-to-face class. The format of this class mirrors that of the face-to-face class whilst offering you the flexibility to study around your commitments.

Duration 2 sessions

Course Type Series

Booking Status Archived

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Target Audience: Academic Staff, Research Staff and those interested in pursuing a career in research

 

This is the online version of the core SPARK class, Building a Successful Research Career and can be taken as an alternative to the face-to-face class. The format of this class mirrors that of the face-to-face class whilst offering you the flexibility to study around your commitments.

 

Building a Successful Research Career is designed for existing research and academic staff and those aspiring to this career, particularly those in the early part of their career. This class provides a structured but flexible framework for researchers to consider what is needed to succeed in this career path and put a plan in place to achieve this.

 

 

 

 

The objectives of the class are:

  • To enable participants to identify their career development needs as researchers and to plan and begin to implement activities to meet those needs.
  • Identify and critically evaluate resources available for Researcher Continuing Professional Development
  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of the key characteristics of research policy within the UK
  • Use nationally recognised frameworks to identify their own professional development needs
  • Apply their knowledge and understanding of the research landscape and their own attributes to plan and conduct a programme of professional development activities


Delivered By: Emma Compton-Daw

Prerequisites

The class will run entirely online in four consecutive, three-week blocks from the class start date. You will undertake a combination of individual and group work, plus occasional online meetings. Whilst you will decide as a group how you allocate your time over each block, you should log in to the Myplace on the class start date to make contact with your group. If you have not logged in by the end of the first week it will be assumed that you no longer wish to take the class and you will be withdrawn.’

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* to your department if you cancel within 5** working days or you do not attend, and a £25 charge for cancellations/ non-attendance between 6 and 10 working days. There will be no charge for cancellation made 10 or more working days before the event. Notifications should be made to OSDU@strath.ac.uk

A department is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary pre-requisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you must attend ALL parts of the course. If you fail to attend any part you will be charged as outlined above.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of course of 1 days duration or less. For some courses there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.

**Any bookings made within 10 days of the event will incur the charges as specified.