Prosper: Unlocking postdoc potential

Prosper is an innovative approach to postdoc career development that unlocks postdocs' potential to thrive in multiple career pathways.

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Postdocs

Tools and resources for figuring out where you might want to go in your career

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Managers of Researchers

Resources to empower you to aid your researchers’ career development

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Institutions

Materials to enable you as a researcher developer to use Prosper at your HEI

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An overview of the portal and its features

The Prosper portal
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You don’t need a login to access any of our resources or information.
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Postdocs can:

Plot your own career path

Set, track and achieve your own career goals

Navigate career advancement

Tailor your career development journey

Add notes to resources

Record your thoughts, and clarify key ideas

Save resources

Quickly access them whenever you want

Managers of Researchers can:

Save resources

Quickly access them whenever you want

Add notes to resources

Record your thoughts, and clarify key ideas

See how postdocs use Prosper

create your own sharable list of resources

Institutions can:

Add comments, questions, case studies and resources

Group resources

create your own sharable list of resources

Add notes to resources

Record your thoughts, and clarify key ideas

Save resources

Quickly access them whenever you want

Postdoc testimonials

Devon Crouch

"One of the of the main benefits I got from Prosper is that it really spurred me to reflect on what drives me."

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Paras Naik

"The community element of the cohort was really valuable. Peer communication is a great catalyst for organising your own thoughts and gives you the chance to help others."

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Rosa Morra

"Don’t be afraid to step outside your comfort zone. Even if you find yourself in a completely new area or a more structured environment than academia, the transferable skills you’ve developed during your PhD and postdoc — such as resilience, independence, communication, and problem-solving — will serve you well."

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Sharon Lin

"The more informal and activity-based nature of the cohort was a welcome contrast to the more structured, lecture-like form that career development can sometimes take."

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Ajay Saroja

"Prosper was incredibly useful in teaching me how to approach people, especially those at a much higher level in research."

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Alejandra Zarate-Potes

"The information in Prosper’s career clusters helped me to find a lot of individual industries I didn’t know existed within the life sciences space."

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David Ashmore

"The group coaching was stunningly effective for identifying my blind spots and assumptions, and getting me to reflect on what I really wanted from my career"

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Ashley Gluchowski

"Networking is so important if you want to be an entrepreneur. You need to do a lot of networking, and the general skills and support that Prosper offers truly boosts your confidence in this area."

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