Researcher Development
Training and development for postgraduate research students and research staff
What we offer
Training and development and career planning support for:
- Postgraduate research students, including:
- skills development to help you with your studies
- support and information for Postgraduates Who Teach
- the Preparing Future Academics programme
- Research staff, including:
- a dedicated research staff development programme
- learning and teaching training
- leadership and management development for those in leadership roles
Researcher Development Framework
We organise our development opportunities through the national Researcher Development Framework
- Knowledge and intellectual abilities
research methods, critical thinking, innovation
- Personal effectiveness
career management, personal skills, networking
- Research governance and organisation
strategy, ethics, copyright, income
- Engagement, influence and impact
enterprise, publication, media, collaboration
Postgraduates who teach
- Research students who teach develop new skills and enhance the learning experience of the students they support
- We have details of teaching and training opportunities and information about how PGWTs are used at York
Information for postgraduates who teach
Research Leaders
- Our new pilot programme, Research Leaders, focuses on some of the key leadership challenges in the context of a research environment.
- The programme is aimed at senior researchers and principal investigators who are heading up research projects and managing researchers.
Researcher-led projects
Researcher-led Development Projects 2011-2012
A fund of up to £30,000 is available to research students and early-career researchers to develop and deliver researcher- led projects that will result in either research with impact or resources to support employability.
Last Updated: 17 February 2011 | RDT rdt@york.ac.uk
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