The PI Network

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: This PI network session looked at how PIs and managers of researchers can support their postdocs to engage with their careers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mutual benefits of unlocking postdoc career potential: An exploration of postdoc career development.

Careers and career conversations

• Careers beyond academia – a general guide for PIs: A session exploring how to support postdocs discover career options beyond academia.
• A template for holding a career conversation: Career and leadership coach Denise Chilton demonstrates how to hold an effective career conversation with a postdoc.
• A coaching approach to career conversations: Career and leadership coach Denise Chilton explores how to use coaching techniques in career conversations with postdocs

Lessons learned during and post-pandemic

• 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.

Creating a positive environment

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Thriving together: Creating more inclusive research communities through the research management relationship: A session on inclusive research communities led by STEM Equals.

Leadership and management

• 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
• Developing resilience: This PI network session looked at the concept of resilience and to the tools available to become resilient leaders.
• Leadership and management for the first-time PI: This PI network session looked at concepts to be aware of for managing and leading researchers.
• The valued manager? The PI-postdoc relationship, featuring UKRI: We discuss how Principal Investigator support of postdocs is valued, recognised and encouraged.