Development
Not stated
- Location
- Belfast, United Kingdom
- Funding
- See university guidance
- Application deadline
- See university guidance
About the project
A postdoctoral position provides valuable opportunities to develop both your research expertise and the wider skills needed for long-term career success.
Postdocs at Queen's University Belfast are entitled to 10 Career Development Days per year for professional and career development activities.
A range of frameworks categorise the skills of researchers and other professionals. Using them to reflect on your own skills can help you identify your strengths and areas you wish to develop further.
At the PDC, we are providing resources based on six general skills themes:
These themes are linked together and some resources are relevant to several of them. For example, communication skills are highly associated to research dissemination, but they also apply to teaching, leadership etc.
Other more detailed frameworks of interest are:
Includes:
Research integrity, ethics and data management; Core Technology Units; Literature and sources; IT skills
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Publishing your research; Presenting at conferences; Public Engagement
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Planning and recording impact; Partnerships with businesses and external stakeholders; Commercialisation and entrepreneurship
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Leadership at Queen's; Personal effectiveness (Self-leadership; project and time management); Developing research proposals; Engaging and volunteering
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Classroom teaching; Supervision; Validating your experience: HEA Fellowships and Queen's Merit Award; Continual development resources
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Our pledge and your role; Career planning; Exploring options and learning from others; Applying for jobs
- Methodologies and practices
- Research dissemination
- Impact and partnerships
- Leadership and vision
- Teaching and supervision
- Career development
- The Researcher Development Framework from Vitae
- The Early Career Researcher Transferable Skills and Competencies from Eurodoc
- The NPA Core competencies from the US National Postdoc Association
- The Leadership and management framework from Queen's