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23 Apr '25Prosper: Employer Insight Session - Environment Agency
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AudienceMore on this eventOverviewPostdocs
During this fireside chat-style session, Emily Fallon, National Framework Water Resources Modelling Lead (and former postdoc), and Pam Reynolds, Training and Skills Senior Advisor, will provide an insight into:
– Day-to-day work at the EA, with a particular focus on Water Resources.
– The value which skills developed through academic research add to their organisation – and how you can showcase these in non-academic job applications.
– The transition from academia into industry, top tips for preparing for this transition and the practicalities of a career with the EA.There will also be opportunity to ask your own questions by submitting them in advance or using the chat during the session.
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14 May '25Prosper: Employer Insight Session - Inizio Medical
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12:00
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Online via Zoom
AudienceMore on this eventOverviewOthers - PGRs, Postdocs
Join us for this fireside chat, which will give an insight into the value researchers can add to the medical communications company, Inizio Medical. During this session, we’ll be joined by two employees from Inizio Medical – Matt McGinley (Talent Acquisition Lead) and Susan Jalicy (Scientific Team Director) who will provide their perspectives on transitioning from a research career to the medical communications industry.
During this fireside chat-style session, Matt and Susan will provide insight into:
– The medical communications industry and day-to-day work at Inizio Medical, focusing on medical writing and project management roles.
– The value that skills developed through academic research can add to medical communications, with a focus on how to showcase transferable skills during the recruitment process for non-academic jobs.
– The transition from academia into industry, including top tips for preparing for this transition and being successful in the medical communications industry.
– Entry-level opportunities at Inizio Medical.There will also be opportunity to ask your own questions by submitting them in advance or using the chat function during the session.
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04 Jun '25Prosper: PI Network - Developing your ECRs using the Research Canvas
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12:00
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Online via Zoom
AudienceMore on this eventOverviewManagers of researchers
In this session, you will learn to use a structured, business-inspired tool—the Research Canvas—to guide early-career researchers in shaping their own ideas into compelling, fundable projects—supporting their progression toward research independence or diverse future careers. At the same time, you’ll find it valuable for structuring and stress-testing new research directions in your own work.
You’ll learn how to visually map and assess research concepts and focus on key factors that influence their success. Whether you’re mentoring, exploring new research avenues, or preparing for funding pitches, this session will offer practical strategies to make your group’s research more cohesive, impactful, and future-ready.
By the end of this session, you will be able to use the Research Canvas to:
– Support your ECRs in refining their own research ideas and articulating a clear research value proposition.
– Guide effective communication of research aims to collaborators, stakeholders, and beneficiaries.
– Strengthen the strategic development and funding readiness of both your own and your team’s research initiatives.
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12 Jun '25Prosper: Insight session - Exploring Careers at the Intersection of Academia and Industry
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14:30
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Online via Zoom
AudienceMore on this eventOverviewOthers - PGRs, Postdocs
During this fireside chat-style session, Prosper’s stakeholder development manager Kerry McElroy will interview Ely Sandler (Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-founder of the Article-Six Group) to discuss:
– His career path, including key milestones, decisions and transitions along the way.
– Similarities and differences when working with colleagues in the private sector and academia.
– The importance of broad networks across academia and the private sector, and tips he would share to develop these networks.
– Advice on exploring career options.
– Questions from the audience in the chat.There will also be opportunity to ask your own questions by submitting them in advance or using the chat function during the session.
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26 Jun '25Prosper: Prosper Exchange - sustaining impact through sharing practice
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13:00
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Online via Zoom
AudienceMore on this eventOverviewResearcher developers / Professional support staff
Join the Prosper team for an online event to officially launch the pilot of the Prosper Exchange — a framework designed to sustain future impact of Prosper, keeping resources relevant and free to access for all users. The event also provides an opportunity to connect with peers to discuss Prosper use and share postdoctoral career development practice.
The aims of this event are to:
– Share details of and officially launch the pilot phase of the Prosper Exchange.
– Offer an opportunity to connect with peers across the researcher development practice space, as a follow-up – to Prosper’s event in February: https://prosper.liverpool.ac.uk/institution-resources/community-of-practice/community-of-practice-annual-event/.During this 90-minute online event, attendees will:
– Learn more about the purpose of the Prosper Exchange and plans for the pilot phase (and beyond).
– Understand how they can access support from the Prosper team, as well as contribute to the ongoing benefit which the resources are providing to researchers across the sector.
– Through action-learning style discussions with peers across the sector, share practice around postdoc career development.
– By engaging with the Prosper Exchange, play an active role in shaping the future of Prosper.
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Past events
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02 Apr '25This event has passed
Prosper: PI Network - Career development - what do postdocs want and do PIs provide it?-
12:00
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Online via Zoom
AudienceMore on this eventOverviewManagers of researchers
A recent review conducted at the University of Sheffield looked at attitudes and access to postdoc career development, from the perspective of both PIs and postdocs.
During this session Rebecca Ehata, Careers and Employability consultant for researchers at the University of Sheffield, will share some of the key findings of this work and look at what we might learn from it. Using the conclusions of the review as a basis for discussion, we’ll be exploring questions such as:
– What are the similarities and differences between postdoc and PI attitudes to career development?
– What support do postdocs say they need—and they receiving it?
– How can you as PIs best prepare to offer career development support alongside the other demands of your role?By the end of this session, participants will have greater awareness of:
– Challenges in aligning PI and postdoc attitudes towards career development opportunities.
– The practical barriers preventing postdoc uptake of development opportunities, and strategies to reduce these.
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27 Feb '25This event has passed
Prosper: Prosper Portal made easy: the Learning & Development resources and you-
12:00
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AudienceMore on this eventOverviewResearcher developers / Professional support staff
As staff focused on delivering postdoc career development you may know of Prosper and might be interested in using the Portal resources in your own practice. This virtual session is here to show you a way of doing that.
The session will provide a tour of the Learning & Development area of the portal and its features, show you examples of different uses and give you the chance to ask any questions or queries you might have.
During the session you will:
• Learn what features and resources are available in the Learning & Development area of the Prosper portal.
• Discover different ways of using the resources.
• Have time to ask questions.
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27 Feb '25This event has passed
Prosper: Employer Insight session with Dr Maddy Hallewell, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency-
12:00
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Online via Microsoft Team's
AudienceMore on this eventOverviewOthers - PGRs, Postdocs
This event is planned and hosted by the team who lead career development for researchers at the University of Nottingham. However, it is open to researchers at any institution, so we are advertising it on their behalf via the Prosper Portal.
Date: Thursday 27th February
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Link for the webinar: https://tinyurl.com/5n8yc4tnCome along to this session to hear from Dr Maddy Hallewell, Social Researcher at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. Maddy previously worked at the Human Factors Research Group, University of Nottingham as Research Fellow in Human Factors. Find out about Maddy’s journey from academia to the civil service – and where the similarities and differences are within the roles and sectors. Maddy will also talk about the application process and share career tips on how to get into the sector.
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