Researcher Development Framework

Personal Effectiveness for Researchers

This domain focuses on your qualities to motivate, manage and promote yourself in research.

This encompasses such areas as personal integrity and self confidence, time management and preparation, and career management and networking.

Research staff
Research students

The RDF is an initiative to set out the knowledge, behaviours and attributes of effective and highly skilled researchers appropriate for a wide range of careers.

It is endorsed by all major research universities in the UK as well as the research councils, Universities UK and the Quality Assurance Agency. As such it is now recognised as the tool for supporting researcher development.

There are four main domains:

Knowledge and intellectual capabilities
Personal effectiveness
Research governance and organisation
Engagement, influence and impact (see also Impact Accelerator Sandpit [doc] for Sciences')

Impact Accelerator Sandpit for Sciences

Event schedule 2013