Academics
Explore our resource hub which brings together curated resources to support academics navigating the complex balance of teaching, research, and service that defines a long-term career in higher education.
Resources for Academics
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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