Resources
Our resources hub is our curated collection of materials designed to support individuals thrive across our White Rose community.
Here you’ll find resources designed by us as well as curated content that can help you in your career development journey and support the advancement of racial equity within higher education leadership.
Explore articles, practical guides, and valuable toolkits to empower your growth and contribute to a more inclusive sector.
Established Researchers Hub
Explore our resource hub which brings together curated resources to support established and mid career researchers navigating the evolving responsibilities and expectations that emerge beyond early career stages.
White Rose participant spotlights
Meet some of the individuals who have taken part in White Rose career development programmes and read about their career experiences and pathways.
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The Valuing Voices Tool
A practical approach to achieving meaningful, impactful and fundable research. Five principles, four questions, one tool.
Peer Discussion Guide: Leading effectively across complex, collaborative projects
This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.
Peer Discussion Guide: Planning projects and project teams
This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.
Learn from a case study of effective coordination of a multi-site research consortium
See, in practice, how one consortium structured governance, infrastructure, and coordination of six organisations.
Build your project team deliberately, from first meeting to close
Use a clear model to guide team development across the full lifecycle of a project.
Adapt your leadership style according to project phase and team
Use different leadership styles intentionally depending on context and phase of work.
Understand what drives performance in distributed project teams
Useful insights for researchers leading time-limited, multi-site projects who need to assemble and sustain productive teams across institutional boundaries.
Build a project team structure that fits funder expectations
Design project teams that are credible, compliant, and strategically aligned with funding requirements.
Make interdisciplinary collaborative projects more explicit, practical, and workable
Surface and address the practical issues that often derail interdisciplinary work.
Build collaborations that allow projects to scale up without fragmentation
Learn how to structure and lead large collaborations effectively as they grow.
Learn approaches to setting up and managing a research lab
Make better early decisions about space, hiring, and ways of working that shape the long-term success and culture of your research group.
Plan and manage your research group budget
Understand how to run your research group as a sustainable organisation, making informed financial decisions that support long-term strategy.
Build a research group culture that is open, collaborative, and intellectually rigorous
Learn practical, research-informed heuristics for shaping a strong, collaborative culture as your team grows.
Learn from real stories of external engagement and impact
Build confidence through real examples of how researchers work beyond academia.
Ensure your external-facing work is recognised, using the Knowledge Exchange Concordat
Use frameworks to legitimise and protect time for external engagement work so it’s not seen as an extra.
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