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Step-by-step guide to networking

In academic careers, networks provide protection and support during periods of uncertainty, and momentum when doors open unexpectedly. If you are not known to a wider network, it’s likely your name won’t come up spontaneously for jobs and other opportunities, and you won’t be considered. This article includes ways to polish your networking skills so they become second nature

Peer Discussion Guide: Building influence, recognition & strategic support

This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.

Peer Discussion Guide: Navigating expectations & protecting your capacity

This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.

Peer Discussion Guide: Building and evolving the lab

This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.

Peer Discussion Guide: Designing the lab environment

This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.

Stepping Up: Insights Into the Realities of Senior Leadership Roles in UK Higher Education

Hear honest reflections on stepping into senior roles, including the realities people rarely talk about.

Growing your research group – online resource for independent fellows and Early-Career PIs

Support the shift from being a researcher to a group leader, with practical insight on scaling teams, roles, and processes sustainably.

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.
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