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Boosting Postdoc Career Development
Welcome!
Postdocs thrive when supported to find the right balance between the demands of their current role and their need to develop a career path suited to their skills, values and personal circumstances. As a manager you will also benefit from the increased professional satisfaction of your postdoc
This section is aimed at helping you in your own journey of developing postdocs. Explore the resources below to discover how to support your staff, build a stronger research team, stay up-to-date with trends and best practices in career development, and foster a positive and inclusive research culture.
Postdoc Careers
Strategies for discussing careers with your postdoc
Enabling your postdoc to explore the wider world
Supporting your postdoc’s next steps from recruitment through to employment
Encouraging your postdoc’s academic dreams
Developing Postdocs
Help your postdoc to identify and strategically develop their skills
Helping your postdoc to face the future
Support your postdoc to grow and use their connections
When to cover what
Inclusive Environments
Make your staff feel welcome and supported
Prioritising the physical and mental health of your research staff
Issues international postdocs face
Developing and becoming an effective research team
Managing Postdocs
Essentials of managing and leading research staff
Getting off to the best start with your postdoc
Using Professional Development Reviews (PDRs) effectively
The next steps for you and your postdoc
Building career development in from the very beginning
Managing and leading your research staff
Balancing your project and your postdoc’s needs
Manager Insights
Learn from the experiences of others
Unsure where to start?
My postdoc wants an academic career, how can I help them?
My postdoc is looking beyond academia, what can I do to support them?
My postdoc isn’t sure what they want, how can I help them to figure out their options?
How to find more resources
Featured resources
Tips to guide your postdocs and encourage them in their own exploration of different career pathways.…
Tips to guide your postdocs and encourage them in their own exploration of different pathways within academia.…
There are plenty of things you as a manager can do to help your postdoc with networking.…
Tips for creating a culturally inclusive environment that recognises and supports the diversity of postdocs.…
A few things to consider to support your international postdocs.…
This set of 12 career clusters, co-created with 75 employers, are intended to represent the key areas of the economy which stand to benefit…
The PI Network aims at sharing best practice and providing peer support and resources for PIs and managers.…
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