Information for staff
Professional and Career Development for Research Staff, Postdocs and Fellows
The RET Team work with both internal and external facilitators to provide a comprehensive programme of training and support available under the 5 headings below. You can enrol on the majority of the staff courses listed below by accessing the University's Learning Management System (LMS) (you will need your York username and password to sign in).
Impact and Public Engagement
Building Impact into Funding Proposals
Introduction to Impact for Researchers
Impact Training for Centre for Future Health Researchers in Health & Well-being
Evaluation of Public Engagement - Developing your Approach
Media Training for Centre for Future Health Researchers in Health and Well-being
The Conversation Writing Workshops (faculty-specific)
'The Conversation' Writing Workshop for Centre for Future Health Researchers in Health and Wellbeing
Preparing Future Fellows: Perfecting Your Presentation, (Pitch) and Performance
Professional, Personal and Career Development
Applying for Jobs: CVs and applications
Career Planning for Research Staff
PGR Supervisor Training (Bitesize)
Bespoke one to one career consultations are also offered subject to availability.
Online careers resources and podcasts to support career management are available, and through Vitae
Management Training for Centre for Future Health Researchers
Work-Life Balance/Resilience/Imposter Syndrome for Centre for Future Health researchers
Knowledge Exchange (KE) and Partnerships
Introduction to Industry and Industrial Collaborations
Partnerships, Networking and Communicating with Partners
Networking Event: Building, Parking & Dumping - Relationships with External Partners
Building Relationships and Stakeholder Mapping
Introduction to IP and Patent Law
Intellectual Property Workshop for Researchers
IP Workshop for Research Scientists
Advanced IP and Legal Training for Centre for Future Health Researchers in Health and Well-being
Business and Finance (Enterprise Fellowship Training)
Leading in Business (Enterprise Fellowship Training)
Negotiating with External Partners (Details TBC)
Research Management
Our Research Management and Research Support courses provide the knowledge and skills to work with others and ensure the wider impact of research.
How to Write Your First Grant Proposal
Introduction to Project Management
Who's Counting? An Introduction to Bibliometrics
Developing an Academic Poster (Book via Target Connect)
Reference Management (Book via Target Connect)
Research Supervisor Training
Postgraduate Supervisor (Bitesize) Briefings
Aimed at those with no or very little supervisory experience and those who are looking to enhance their supervisory practice, made up of six consecutive sessions. Staff are welcome to attend as many or as few of these sessions as they would like.
1. The PhD process: regulations, policy and progression
2. Approaches and models of supervision
3. Supporting PGR student welfare
4. Information and Digital skills
5. Professional development and careers
6. Completing the PhD
IT Training
How to Use Scopus (Citation Database)
Presenting with PowerPoint and Slides (available via Target Connect)
IT Services provide a range of online, face to face and one to one training opportunities for students, researchers and staff.
Events
RETT is also involved with several events that are open to or specifically for research staff. These include:
Research Staff Conference - April 2020 (more information TBC)
Falling Walls Competition - this event runs on a biennial basis and the next event will run in 2020
PGR Supervisor Symposium - dates TBC
Mentoring and Coaching
Other development opportunities
- Careers support
- The central general staff training programme is open to research staff.
- The Academic Practice Team offer the TSLHE and YPAD courses in learning and teaching that are open to research staff.
Support for Research Supervisors
If you're a Research Supervisor, then we offer specific support for you. Our Being an Effective Research Supervisor Tutorial or BEST is an online tutorial which covers six areas of supervisory practice - each complementing our six Postgraduate Supervisor Training Sessions.
We're also proud to be part of the UKCGE Research Supervision Recognition Programme - a scheme piloted in 2019, where three University of York Supervisors were recognised for their excellent supervision.
Research Staff Conferences
Our annual Research Staff Conferences are open to all research staff, postdocs, interested academics and final year PhD students. These events celebrate the excellent research taking place at York and to give you an opportunity to consider your career options. Our 2020 conference details are TBC.
In 2019 we held two Research Staff Conferences, one for the Sciences, and another for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Learn more about our Research Staff Conferences, and watch videos from previous conference speakers
Support for Fellows
Are you a postdoc or early career researcher who is interested in producing a draft Fellowship application?
We run a Preparing for Fellowship Success workshop to support Fellowship applicants. Details of our 2020 session are TBC, but you can take a look at our 2019 workshop details here.
Training opportunities for 2019/20
Here is RETT's programme of training and development opportunities for research staff and research fellows designed to support you in developing ideas and collaborations and producing excellent research:
Research Excellence Training and Support for Research Staff and Fellows 2019/20 (PDF
, 766kb)
News
- The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers 2019 has been released
- Information for new staff can now found on our new staff induction webpages
- Research Staff Conference 2019 - Sciences
- Research Staff Conference 2019 - Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Concordat
Find out more about the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers
Research Staff Training and Support newsletters
Current and archived newsletters for research staff