Start of our 2nd Semester PGR Info Fair showcasing all the different services available to our doctoral candidates/postgraduate researchers.

#postgraduate #DoctoralCollege #GraduateSchool #phd #PostgraduateResearch #researcherdevelopment

"We can all contribute to a more failure-friendly research culture!"
- Why talking about failure matters.
Excellent post by Taryn Bell, Anna Pilz and Dr Johanna Stadlbauer, on The Auditorium blog, 1 September 2025.
https://theauditorium.blog/2025/09/01/why-talking-about-failure-matters
#FailureInAcademia #ECRchat #ResearcherDevelopment
Why talking about failure matters

This is a guest post by Dr Taryn Bell, Researcher Development Advisor for Careers and Fellowships, University of Leeds), Dr Anna Pilz, Research Development Manager, University of Edinburgh, and Dr …

The Auditorium: a research culture and researcher development blog

Useful webinar for early career researchers in Wales - ECR Webinar: Giving your Research a Voice in the Senedd, 29 January

#Research #Wales #ECRs #ResearcherDevelopment

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thelearnedsocietyofwales/1491785?mc_cid=77ba2da157&mc_eid=61a5433597

The call for applications for Welsh Crucible 2025 is now open!

This is a great leadership development programme for early and mid-career researchers in Wales.

#Research #ResearcherDevelopment #Wales

https://welshcrucible.org.uk/why-apply/

Apply – Welsh Crucible

Learned Society of Wales on LinkedIn: Galwad am Ceisiadau: Grŵp Cynghori ar gyfer Datblygu Ymchwilwyr 2024 -…

📢 Yn Galw Ymchwilwyr Gyrfa Gynnar a Chanol eu Gyrfa | 📢 Calling Early-and Mid-Career Researchers Rydym yn gwahodd ceisiadau gan ymchwilwyr gyrfa gynnar a…

Hello world! I've moved from scientific publishing and training into researcher development and am looking for people on here to follow, especially in the world of #Vitae and #ResearcherDevelopment. You may know me from when I was @Cofactoranna.

Trying to solve some tech issues for researchers in our new building, so unfortunately I've missed most of the session on "Supporting sustainable research and technical careers"

- will have to catch up with this one on the UUK YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/UniversitiesUK1

Diving in at the end, seems like there's some good discussion around the 10 days of #CPD in the #ResearcherDevelopment #Concordat - https://researcherdevelopmentconcordat.ac.uk/

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Fun new things I am happy to be involved in with Dr Kay Guccione - Expanding the Supervisor Development community! See blog for details and join us to chat and read all things
#ResearcherDevelopment and #PhDSupervision https://supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/expanding-the-supervisor-development-community/
Expanding the Supervisor Development community!

A community blog, on doctoral supervision relationships and pedagogies

I can highly recommend this series of #free #webinars on the #ResponsibleConductofResearch -
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4249188454995192591?source=Website

The next, on 14th December, is a "Practical guide to #mentoring conversations" with Dr Kay Guccione, Head of #ResearchCulture & #ResearcherDevelopment at the University of Glasgow, is sure to be another great session!

A really succinct summary (three minute read) of the current deficiencies within academic science EDI work from Felicity Davies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-022-00565-9

#ResearchCulture #ResearcherDevelopment #AcademicChat #MolecularCellBiology

DEI conversations: more than a box-ticking exercise - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

In this World View, Felicity Davis discusses how efforts surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) often serve to tick a mandatory box, rather than delivering a meaningful change in the DEI space.

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