Networking and Profile Building
Dates
- Autumn/Winter: Tuesdays Nov 25 & Dec 2 - 10am-2:30pm (includes 1 hour lunch from noon-1pm)
- Summer: Wednesdays June 17 & 24 - 10am-2:30pm (includes 1 hour lunch from noon-1pm)
A practical Networking and Research Profile Building course for Postdocs and Fellows
This course runs on two days (one week apart) and will cover a range of skills that will help you raise your profile, and build the networks that can help you succeed, whether your career aims are in academia or beyond it. This course is collaboratively delivered across the over 15 UK Higher Education Institutions and during this workshop you will get the opportunity to network, online, with researchers based at these institutions.
Places on this course are prioritised for postdoctoral and early-career researchers.
To attend this course, you must agree to attend both sessions.
Format
- The course runs online, hosted on Zoom
- The course will run over two separate sessions (days), one-week apart
- Sessions run from 10:00-14:30 with a 1-hour lunch from 12:00-13:00
- Check your emails for joining links and links to course resources
Register your place
- All researchers from all participating institutions can register using this form (same link as in the orange box above)
- You should receive a confirmation email with calendar invites to hold the space in your calendar
- You will receive additional information with joining links in due course before the first session
Introduction to the Principles of Networking - we will introduce you to some theoretical frameworks that help you understand your networks and plan areas where you might consider developing them. You will also get a chance to meet some of your peers from other institutions
How to Build Confidence and Take First Steps - develop methods of networking which are comfortable for you. Help for you to self-assess, identify barriers, and build increased confidence to network for career development.
Introduction to Collaborating and Partnering - help you assess the value of collaboration and partnering for your career and help you evaluate your collaboration/partnering potential, learning practical ways to help you arrive at concrete next steps to forming these connections.
Meet people from across UK Higher Education with proven track records in Networking, Collaborating, and Partnering, and get a chance to ask them about how they gained confidence.
Developing Your Academic or Research Profile - we will discuss what we mean by 'profile' and why this concept is important for academic researchers. We discuss strategies on how to develop your profile to help you prepare for that next career step.
Social Media, Networking, and Profile - explore how online networking can support your networking goals. We will help you review and improve your online profile, going in depth on making best use of LinkedIn and other platforms. We’ll discuss strategies to make the most of your time and resources and this session will give you a handy peer group to get you off to a flying start!
Action Planning for next steps, Networking Exercises, and Opportunties to Network with fellow participants from your disciplines.
Introduction to the Principles of Neworking: Natasha Rhys (King's), and Liam Morgan (Cardiff)
Building Confidence to Network and Taking first Steps: Marina Bush (Cambridge), and Milo Miller (Nottingham)
Collaborating and Partnering: Fiona Phillippi (Edinburgh), Anne Marie Sowerbutts (Machester), and Rebecca Woodfield (Sheffield)
Developing Your Research or Academic Profile: Rui Pires Martins (Queen Mary), and Lydia Klimecki (Bristol)
Social Media, Networking, and Profile: Inês Perpetuo (Imperial),
Practical Networking Exercises: Nicole Horst (Cambridge), and Andrew Holmes (Liverpool)
Course Lead: Rui Pires Martins (Queen Mary)
This programme is a collaboration between Queen Mary University London, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, Cardiff University, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Imperial College London, King’s College London, University of Leeds, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, University of Portsmouth, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Sheffield, and University of York.
Collaborate with us!
This project is a collaboration enabled by Researcher Developers and Careers Consultants from the Researchers14 network. To keep being able to offer this course, we would like to invite other institutions to join the collaboration!
Each run offers places for 10+ for postdoctoral researchers for each partnering Higher Education Institution.
To partner, each institution needs contribute, plan, support, or co-deliver/facilitate on at least one of the six sessions.
- Plan, co-deliver/facilitate one of the six sessions (10 places for postdocs)
- Provide Support for the administration and communications for the course (10 places for postdocs)
- Contributing a speaker from your institution on one of the sessions (3 places for postdocs, per speaker)
- New partners can earn up to 3 places for observing a session with plans to deliver in future
- Places can be distributed over the three runs of the year
We have developed a core set of delivery and administrative resources to support new partners joining our delivery team.
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact Dr Rui Pires Martins for more information.
It was good to see there is not 'one way of networking'. People are comfortable with different networking styles, so it's all about finding the style that fits you.— Former participant of Networking & Profile Building, University of Cambridge
Being given practical advice on how to present ourselves on social networks was really valuable.— Former participant of Networking & Profile Building, Queen Mary University of London
This workshop was so different and mind-opening from other ones I attended before. Quite unusual interactive activities, such as Padlet and Kumospace made the workshop excellent.— Former participant of Networking & Profile Building, University of Portsmouth