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    Understanding & Planning a Research Career
    Provider   Researcher Development Programme

    This workshop will give an overview of academic careers, including case studies and examples from the instructor’s own experience.

Duration 1 full day

Course Type Workshop

Booking Status Now Booking

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Target Audience: PGRs

 Participants will be asked to consider their career strategy going forward, regarding their research field, their accomplishments to date and their next steps. They will be introduced to fellowship opportunities, tips on how to network and make their research outputs visible to a wide audience. In addition, participants will be asked to consider which skills and experience they want to develop further that are relevant to a research career.

 

Postgraduate researchers from 2nd year of PhD onwards.

 

- An overview of research careers and what is expected of early career researchers.

- An understanding of the next steps that they need to take to enhance their career prospects.

- An understanding of the skills they have and those that they would like to develop further.



Delivered By: Joanna Young

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend a course please cancel your place as soon as possible, with at least 3 working days notice via the online booking system

PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development

All postgraduate research students are eligible to access the Researcher Development Programme workshops. This workshop can contribute towards the PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PG Cert RPD).

You can find credit and class information in the Researcher Development Programme Handbook and in NEPTUNE (Engineering, HaSS) or SPIDER (Science).

Please check with your department or Supervisor to confirm if you are enrolled on the PG Cert RPD and how many credits you are expected to achieve if you are unsure.