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The PI Network
The PI network provides a forum for managers of researchers to share best practice around postdoc career development. The PI Network is open to the whole sector. Anybody who manages researchers is welcome to attend any session – no matter what discipline or career stage they're at. Sessions are held online and are completely free. Learn more about the PI Network here.
HEIs are invited to pitch and lead a PI Network session. If you have an idea for a session you would like to run, get in touch at prosper.postdoc@liverpool.ac.uk
You can find information about upcoming sessions on our events page, and by signing up to the mailing list.
“It’s important to share and learn different ways of enhancing the way that you support development of postdocs.”
Prof Bhavik Patel, Prof of Clinical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, University of Brighton
Past PI Network sessions
Revisit past events and discover video and written resources associated with them.
Career development
- Barriers to success: Supporting researchers to engage in career development and decision making
- Portal tour - a quick guide for PIs
- Productivity and professional development
- Simple steps for supporting postdoc career development
- Mutual benefits of unlocking postdoc career potential
Careers and career conversations
- Careers beyond academia – a general guide for PIs
- A template for holding a career conversation
- A coaching approach to career conversations
Lessons learned during and post-pandemic
Creating a positive environment
- Creating a working environment that lets you and your postdoc grow – skills for PIs and postdocs
- Building intercultural competence: how to best support postdocs to thrive in multicultural work settings
- Improve your wellbeing with Positive Intelligence
- The DIY guide to getting the best out of yourself and your researchers
- Thriving together: Creating more inclusive research communities through the research management relationship
Leadership and management
About the PI network
The Prosper PI Network was launched in September 2020, with the aim of providing a platform for managers of researchers and principal investigators to support the career development of their research staff, by sharing best practice and providing peer support and resources.
Originally limited to Prosper’s three partner institutions during its development phase, the PI Network is now open to all managers of researchers across the UK.
Sessions run approximately every two months, are held online and free to register/attend. They address topics relevant to managers of researchers specifically, and offer the opportunity to interact with peers for shared learning.
Past events by date
28 February 2024 Developing resilience
18 April 2024 Strategic academic leadership
06 June 2024 Improve your wellbeing with Positive Intelligence
17 July 2024: Portal tour - a quick guide for PIs
22 November 2024 Welcome to the panic room - managing challenging scenarios
12 January 2023 Building intercultural competence: how to best support postdocs to thrive in multicultural work settings
29 March 2023 Creating a working environment that lets you and your postdoc grow – skills for PIs and postdocs
26 April 2023 Barriers to success: Supporting researchers to engage in career development and decision making
16 June 2023 Leadership and management for the first-time PI
04 May 2022 Simple steps for supporting postdoc career development
15 July 2022 Careers beyond academia – a general guide for PIs
13 September 2022 The DIY guide to getting the best out of yourself and your researchers
22 November 2022 Productivity and professional development
21 April 2021 Lessons learned from Covid and postdoc career development in the post-Covid era
30 June 2021 A coaching approach to career conversations
08 July 2021 A template for holding a career conversation
15 September 2021 Thriving together: creating more inclusive research communities through the research management relationship
09 September 2020 Managing researchers during Covid-19
29 October 2020 Mutual benefits of unlocking postdoc career potential
17 November 2020 The valued manager? The PI-postdoc relationship,
featuring UKRI
Past events in alphabetical order
- A coaching approach to career conversations: Career and leadership coach Denise Chilton explores how to use coaching techniques in career conversations with postdocs
- A template for holding a career conversation: Career and leadership coach Denise Chilton demonstrates how to hold an effective career conversation with a postdoc.
- Barriers to success: Supporting researchers to engage in career development and decision making: This PI network session looked at how PIs and managers of researchers can support their postdocs to engage with their careers.
- Building intercultural competence: how to best support postdocs to thrive in multicultural work settings: This PI network session looked at the importance of intercultural competence and how best to lead a multicultural team.
- Careers beyond academia – a general guide for PIs: A session exploring how to support postdocs discover career options beyond academia.
- Creating a working environment that lets you and your postdoc grow – skills for PIs and postdocs: This PI network session looked at helping your postdoc to develop their skills in a way that benefits you both.
- Developing resilience: This PI network session looked at the concept of resilience and to the tools available to become resilient leaders.
- Simple steps for supporting postdoc career development: This PI network session looked at how managers of researchers can support their postdocs to make difficult transitions, whether they're continuing within or looking beyond academia.
- Strategic academic leadership: This PI network session focus on the concept of holistic leadership and the strategies to become dynamic and influential academic team-builders
- The DIY guide to getting the best out of yourself and your researchers: This PI network session looked at how to create a working environment where everyone flourishes.
- The valued manager? The PI-postdoc relationship, featuring UKRI: We discuss how Principal Investigator support of postdocs is
- Thriving together: Creating more inclusive research communities through the research management relationship: A session on inclusive research communities led by STEM Equals.
- Welcome to the panic room - managing challenging scenarios: A session on strategies for managing challenging scenarios
- Improve your wellbeing with Positive Intelligence: This PI network session looked at how Positive Intelligence can help you in improving your own wellbeing and cultivate a more positive and supportive mindset.
- Leadership and management for the first-time PI: This PI network session looked at concepts to be aware of for managing and leading researchers.
- Lessons learned from Covid and postdoc career development in the post-Covid era: Discussion about how PIs and postdocs have adapted to the pandemic and suggestions on how to prepare for the future.
- Managing researchers during Covid-19: Practical advice and suggestions on how best to manage your researchers during the pandemic.
- Mutual benefits of unlocking postdoc career potential: An exploration of postdoc career development.
- Portal tour - a quick guide for PIs: This PI Network session presented the Prosper portal and how PIs can use it to support their postdocs
- Productivity and professional development: This PI Network session explored how you can support your postdocs to balance research and career development.
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