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Postdoctoral
Development
Centre

Developing your research career

Practical information

  • Audience: Postdocs and research staff at Queen's
  • Date and time: This is a 4-part programme (Workshop 1: 19 Sept 2024, 09:00 - 13:00; Workshop 2: 19 Sept 2024, 13:45 - 17:00; Workshop 3: 20 Sept 2024, 09:00 - 12:30; Part 4: Individual Career Consultation - date to be confirmed.
  • Length: 4 + 3.5 + 3.5 + 1 h (participants need to attend ALL sessions)
  • Place: In person & Online
  • Organised by: Organisational Development (stafflearning@qub.ac.uk; view on the organiser's page)

Content

This 4-part programme provides researchers with time and space to focus on their career development.

It will enable you to develop a deeper understanding of the potential for career planning and aims to support researchers in looking at their interests and abilities, their career objectives and to develop career management strategies that work for them. The programme includes a personally tailored career consultation for those who effectively complete the first three workshops.

The focus of the programme is on your individual career and as such it requires you to invest time and energy in looking at yourself and developing strategies that work for you. You will be guided and facilitated in the direction of making good decisions for yourself.

There will be a number of self-assessment activities to complete as part of the programme.  These activities will enable you to look in detail at your own priorities, skills, interests and values.  The programme will be intensive and participative and it will be important that we work in a collaborative and confidential way.

The programme is a mixture of pre work, presentation of material, small group work and tasks.

Participants will register for 'Workshop 1: Developing Your Research Career' only. Once registered, a place will automatically be reserved for you on workshop 2 and workshop 3.

Following attendance at all 3 workshops, participants will then be offered a slot for their Individual Career Consultation.

  • Workshop 1: Developing your Research Career 
  • Workshop 2: Developing your CV for Researchers 
  • Workshop 3: Preparing for Interviews for Researchers 
  • Part 4: One-to-one Career Consultation

Programme Objectives

The course aims to assist you with:

  • Review your research career
  • Identify your career objectives
  • Identify your transferable skills
  • Establish how work fits into the rest of your life
  •  Develop your CV and online profiles such as LinkedIn and ResearchGate
  • Prepare for Interviews
  • Be supported in your career decision making

 

Registration

Registration for this course is done via iTrent. Participants only register for the first workshop on the system and will be automatically signed-up for the entire programme.

Register on iTrent for Developing your Research Career

Facilitator

Janet Sheath

Janet is a Programme Director and Lecturer MSc in Career Coaching in Birkbeck College, University of London, with 20 years experience specializing in career coaching in corporate, higher education, public and third sector. She is especially interested in the career development of Researchers and linking theory and practice to support Researchers to navigate their careers.

Janet is a qualified supervisor of teams of consultants and career coaches in the UK, Germany and Ireland in OD and Career Consultancies, Pharmaceuticals, Business schools and Higher Education. She trains career coaches and designs Career and Professional Development programmes and supervision for coaching professionals.

She also is an occupational Psychologist (MSc) and counsellor (MBACP) as well as a NICEC Fellow.

Facilitator

Mike Higgins

Mike is a Lecturer MSc in Career Coaching at Birkbeck College, University of London, with 15 years’ experience specializing in career coaching in outplacement, private practice and the higher education sector.

Hi is and associate Career Coach at LSE Department of Management and designs and delivers skills seminars on topics ranging from best practice CVs through interview and networking skills to career exploration and planning.

Mike also is a Lecturer MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy in the University of East London and a counsellor (MBACP).

Feedback

Rating (out of 5): 5

Recommended by: 100%

Number of feedback provided: 3

Quote: "The facilitators had clearly put a lot of thought into the programme, and made it very interactive. I appreciated having the space to think about and discuss my career alongside other researchers. There were also some really great practical tools for interview preparation that I found especially valuable." (Participant, 2022)