Theme: Postdoc Academy Masterclasses, Workshops, and Courses
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Do you sometimes feel worn down or worked up? Would you like to develop habits that help you navigate life with greater confidence and happiness?
This course is designed specifically for researchers to explore tools for enhancing self-awareness, managing stress and unwanted thoughts, and embracing enjoyment and positive change.
It provides guided opportunities to think about:
- how we relate to our body, thoughts and feelings
- finding connection with others, nature and time
- practical ways to change our habits and patterns of thinking.
The six workshops explore concepts from various traditions and provide opportunities for focused self-reflection, enhanced using meditation skills.
These skills are for complete beginners and provide new approaches for those with more experience. No previous experience is required.
Would you like to be more deliberate about what you say yes to, and become more confident at saying no?
In this interactive 90-minute masterclass, you will gain insights into:
- creating a strategic approach to saying yes
- negotiating your workload
- building confidence to say no to requests.
You will have the opportunity to explore how you can apply the theory in practice, and to discuss the challenges of saying no in an academic setting.
Most people experience self-doubt at some point in their life. We may not feel as competent or knowledgeable as others perceive us to be, or we may attribute our success to luck.
Such thoughts and emotions are sometimes referred to as impostor phenomenon. Research suggests it is common amongst high achieving individuals such as those working in academia.
This 3-hour workshop will provide a safe and confidential space to explore your own and others’ experiences of imposter phenomenon, and why these feelings can arise.
It will also equip you with a range of different approaches to help manage feelings of self-doubt.
By the end of the workshop you will have:
- understood what imposter phenomenon is and why you might experience it
- explored its impact on your life and career
- identified strategies for managing self-doubt.
Being able to effectively manage your workload in a proactive and realistic way is key to a successful research career.
Understanding task and relationship management techniques can help you better balance the demands on your time as a postdoc, as well as reducing your stress.
In this interactive half-day workshop, you will learn practical techniques that you can implement to consistently improve your day-to-day productivity.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- manage your activities more proactively through planning and negotiation
- feel more confident in how to prioritise, make decisions, and say no
- better manage your email and meeting habits.
Bring your productivity issues to the workshop ready for some practical troubleshooting!
Team working is a critical part of successful research and innovation. But working with others can be challenging when they don’t think or behave in the way we do.
In this half-day workshop, we will explore fundamental aspects of team working, including why having people in your teams who think and behave differently to you is essential for success.
We will look at different theories around teamwork and globally recognised tools, including LEGO Serious Play and Belbin Team Roles.
At the end of this workshop, you will understand:
- why teams don’t need well-rounded people
- how conflict between working styles can be turned to an advantage
- why our expectations of team members (including leaders) can set them up to fail
- and when choosing people to work with, why we need to look beyond their eligibility and consider their suitability.
As you progress in your career, you will have to navigate the transition from being managed and supervised by others, to taking on leadership of projects and people for the first time.
Using our own experience of leadership, along with discussion and theories, we will look at a variety of aspects of successful leadership within the research and innovation context.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for you to:
- think about your aims in terms of leadership
- take stock of your own leadership attributes and experience
- identify how to further develop your research and innovation leadership potential.
Tue 22 Nov 2022
11:00
Finished
Explore agile ways to respond to uncertainty and increase your research impact in this 90-minute online masterclass.
Research projects can often be complex and unpredictable. This training will support you to develop your own decision making in this uncertain environment.
The session will focus on four types of agility for research impact:
- environment scanning
- stakeholder/partner engagement strategies
- responding to complex problems effectively and efficiently
- developing an agile mindset.
It will include interactive elements, with the opportunity to reflect on your own practice and share your experiences.
The session will be delivered by Natacha Wilson from Cambridge Insights.
Do you know when it is appropriate to negotiate, and how to do this effectively? Would you like to improve your skills in communicating with influence?
This interactive session will introduce you to key principles of influencing and negotiation that can be applied in workplace situations.
In this 90-minute session, you will:
- explore key principles of negotiation
- identify the difference between asking and negotiating
- gain practical techniques for communicating with influence
- identify the appropriate negotiating style for your context.
You will have the opportunity to practice some of these skills in the session. To make the most of this session, we recommend that you come prepared to participate in discussions and activities.
In the increasingly competitive field of fellowship funding, applications need to stand out immediately to capture reviewers’ interest and to maximise the chance of being funded. This accelerated session, aimed at early career researchers, highlights key considerations in preparing a strong fellowship application. The session explores: desirability, feasibility and viability, planning your project, what’s important to the funder, how applications are assessed, writing style - how to get noticed, project, person, place, partners – elements of successful fellowships, how to plan for impact – ‘so what’, ‘now what’. The session will have two parts: a talk that will last for 45-60 mins, then an opportunity for you to ask your own questions a 30 min Q&A.
Speaker Info: Richard Henning Brodersen (Research Development Manager, Research Operations Office) leads the pre-award team for the School of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He has over 10 years’ experience supporting and co-writing research funding applications including fellowships, research grants and industry collaborations for a wide range of funders across the arts, humanities and sciences. Prior to working in higher education Richard had a successful career in financial consultancy and in the further education sector.
In the increasingly competitive field of fellowship funding, your applications need to stand out immediately.
During this online masterclass for early career researchers, you'll learn key considerations for preparing a strong fellowship application.
The session will explore:
- desirability, feasibility and viability
- what’s important to the funder
- elements of successful applications
- and how to plan for impact.
It will consist of a 60-minute talk and an opportunity to ask questions.
Creativity is a critical part of research, helping people look at old problems in new ways.
In this practical workshop for postdocs, we will explore:
- creativity as a way of operating rather than a talent
- tools and techniques to boost your creative confidence
- how to apply creative thinking to your own research questions.
To get the most out of the session, think of a particular problem or challenge in your research that you would like to work on creatively in the workshop. You might find the breakthrough you’ve been looking for!
Mon 13 Mar 2023
14:00
Finished
Many believe that emotional intelligence (EQ) is a better predictor of success in the workplace than IQ. The good news is that EQ can be developed and improved over time.
In this two-part interactive workshop, you will gain an understanding of the key skills needed to develop your emotional intelligence – managing your own emotions and the emotions of others.
Through activities and discussions, you’ll reflect on your default behaviour in workplace situations and explore your strengths and areas for further development.
In this second 2-hour session, you will gain insights into:
- social awareness: understanding the emotions of others, empathy and active listening, managing relationships
- relationship management: effective communication, motivating and influencing others.
Book a space on part one of this workshop here
Although parts one and two can be attended separately, we recommend participating in both.
Once your attendance has been confirmed, you will be invited to attend an optional follow-up group coaching session to enhance and consolidate your learning. This virtual session is scheduled for 14:00-15:30 on Monday 20th March.
Mon 6 Mar 2023
14:00
Finished
Many believe that emotional intelligence (EQ) is a better predictor of success in the workplace than IQ. The good news is that EQ can be developed and improved over time.
In this two-part interactive workshop, you will gain an understanding of the key skills needed to develop your emotional intelligence – managing your own emotions and the emotions of others.
Through activities and discussions, you’ll reflect on your default behaviour in workplace situations and explore your strengths and areas for further development.
In this first 2-hour session, you will gain insights into:
- self-awareness: understanding and managing your emotions, recognising triggers, and managing stress
- self-regulation: developing emotional self-control.
Book a space on part two of this workshop here
Although parts one and two can be attended separately, we recommend participating in both.
Once your attendance has been confirmed, you will be invited to attend an optional follow-up group coaching session to enhance and consolidate your learning. This virtual session is scheduled for 14:00-15:30 on Monday 20th March.
Powerful presentation skills can be critical in winning support for your ideas, establishing partnerships, spreading your message, or simply getting a job.
This highly interactive workshop series covers the secrets of public speaking, from a compelling opening and the magic of storytelling, to the effective use of body language and interactions to help your talk come alive.
The two half-day workshops will include:
The Essentials of Presentations
- How to open well and impress from the outset.
- Crafting an ending that leaves your words ringing in the ears of an audience.
- Being clear on your narrative for concise and effective storytelling.
- Adapting your message for any audience.
Visuals
- How much information to put on a slide.
- Effective use of images.
- Elegant use of data to convince rather than overwhelm.
The Magic of Storytelling
- The impact of stories over facts.
- How to tell a compelling story.
- The pillars of persuasion - credibility, emotion and logic.
Advanced Presentation Skills
- How to use character, authenticity and body language to your advantage.
- Turning your talk into a captivating dialogue.
- Using signposting and soundbites to make your most important points stand out.
- Dealing with nerves.
Most people find it challenging to take decisions and action under uncertain conditions.
But there are practical ways to cope with uncertainty, using simple techniques which we can practise and implement in our daily lives.
Using these skills, we can make uncertainty work to our advantage, fuelling creativity, problem solving and teamwork.
This workshop is an opportunity to experience uncertainty in a safe environment and become comfortable thinking on your feet. We will borrow tools from improvisation theatre and cognitive sciences to help you experiment and learn strategies to harness uncertainty to your benefit.
Feedback from postdocs who attended the training in July 2021:
- “Really great experience. Mostly, I think it helps a lot with confidence and also with tuning your listening skills and your respect for what others say and do. You can't predict things and need to embrace them as they come, and this is so useful in both personal and work life.”
- “I liked the positive messages it gave for approaching my research - sometimes it’s best not to overthink but go with the obvious, or if things go wrong (even repeatedly) just forget about them and keep trying something new.”
Thu 21 Jul 2022
14:00
Finished
Most people find taking decisions and action under uncertain conditions challenging, and some find it daunting. There are practical ways to cope with uncertainty and make it less crippling, including simple techniques which can be trained and implemented in our daily lives. Once these skills have been acquired, we can even learn to have uncertainty work to our advantage, using it to fuel creativity and problem solving and to boost team work.
This workshop is an opportunity to experience uncertainty in a safe environment and learn to get comfortable with thinking on our feet. We will borrow tools from improvisation theatre and cognitive sciences to help you experiment with uncertainty and learn strategies for harnessing it to your benefit.
Feedback from postdocs who attended the training in July 2021:
- Really great experience. Mostly, I think it helps a lot with confidence and also with tuning your listening skills and your respect for what others said and do. You can't predict things and need to embrace them as they come, and this is so useful in both personal and work life.
- I found this workshop was a very fun way to spend two hours. But more than that I liked the positive messages it gave for approaching my research - e.g. sometimes it’s best not to overthink but go with the obvious, or if things go wrong (even repeatedly) just forget about them and keep trying something new.
The Speaker: Ron Jortner is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and professional improviser. He completed his PhD at Caltech and the Hebrew University, and held positions at the Max Planck Society and the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology. He lives in Cambridge, is founder and CEO of Aspire Biosciences, managing director of Masthead Biosciences, and artistic director of the Cambridge University Science Improv Society.
Collaboration is highly valued in research today and is responsible for many of the most important modern advances in knowledge and understanding.
This webinar aims to help you plan and maintain your research collaboration successfully, so both you and your collaborators can enjoy and benefit from the journey.
In this 2-hour online masterclass, we’ll consider:
- the advantages and barriers to a collaborative approach
- what drives successful collaborations
- the ‘rules’ and process of planning, establishing, managing and working together
- partnerships outside of academia
- what you can do if things aren’t working out.
This session will require your input so you should have your camera and microphone on and come prepared to be an active participant.
This short, interactive session will introduce the fundamental principles of Lean - a methodology which prioritises continuous improvement and respect for people.
Lean is a philosophy and way of working which removes waste from activities and ensures that emphasis is given to tasks that provide added value. Originally developed by Toyota, it is now widely used across many sectors including the NHS and Higher Education.
During this masterclass for postdocs, you will:
- gain a high-level understanding of continuous improvement tools and techniques, and how you can apply them
- develop skills to identify and remove waste in your day-to-day activities to become more effective and efficient.
World-leading research depends on the connections researchers make to share ideas, pose new questions, challenge assumptions, and form collaborations.
Cambridge has a range of networks, initiatives, and centres to promote interdisciplinary working and connect researchers across the University.
This event will give postdocs a chance to find out about these networks and the opportunities they offer – from meeting new people and establishing collaborations, to developing and funding your own interdisciplinary projects.
You can find a list of the featured networks below.
For a brief introduction about these interdisciplinary networks, please see the short video: What impact will your next connection have?
Would you like to focus better on the work that is important to you? Do you find you have too many distractions and struggle to prioritise?
In this 1-hour online session, you will learn techniques to help you:
- enhance your focus on your most important work
- reduce distraction and prioritise more effectively
- establish daily habits to relieve stress, reduce self-criticism and strengthen resilience
- create space to recognise your achievements each day.
The session is followed by a 4-day Nudge Course. This provides one technique per day to help you convert the techniques you’ve learned into useful habits.
For 48 hours following the session, you will also have the opportunity to contact Joy, a mental health nurse with over 40 years’ experience. Joy will offer a confidential listening ear and signpost you to further support.
In the increasingly competitive field of fellowship funding, applications need to stand out immediately to capture reviewers’ interest and to maximise the chance of being funded. This accelerated session, aimed at early career researchers, highlights key considerations in preparing a strong fellowship application. The session explores: desirability, feasibility and viability, planning your project, what’s important to the funder, how applications are assessed, writing style - how to get noticed, project, person, place, partners – elements of successful fellowships, how to plan for impact – ‘so what’, ‘now what’. The session will have two parts: a talk that will last for 45-60 mins, then an opportunity for you to ask your own questions a 30 min Q&A.
Speaker Info: Richard Henning Brodersen, Research Development Manager, Research Operations Office Richard leads the pre-award team for the School of Technology at Cambridge University. He has over 10 years’ experience supporting and co-writing research funding applications including fellowships, research grants and industry collaborations for a wide range of funders across the arts, humanities and sciences. Prior to working in higher education Richard had a successful career in financial consultancy and in the further education sector.
Be sure to check out the other sessions in our Postdocs Masterclass series in the "Related Courses" section below!
In the increasingly competitive field of fellowship funding, applications need to stand out immediately to capture reviewers’ interest and to maximise the chance of being funded. This accelerated session, aimed at early career researchers, highlights key considerations in preparing a strong fellowship application. The session explores: desirability, feasibility and viability, planning your project, what’s important to the funder, how applications are assessed, writing style - how to get noticed, project, person, place, partners – elements of successful fellowships, how to plan for impact – ‘so what’, ‘now what’. The session will have two parts: a talk that will last for 45-60 mins, then an opportunity for you to ask your own questions a 30 min Q&A.
Speaker Info: Richard Henning Brodersen, Research Development Manager, Research Operations Office Richard leads the pre-award team for the School of Technology at Cambridge University. He has over 10 years’ experience supporting and co-writing research funding applications including fellowships, research grants and industry collaborations for a wide range of funders across the arts, humanities and sciences. Prior to working in higher education Richard had a successful career in financial consultancy and in the further education sector.
How much could a high quality break help you recharge, reduce stress, and improve your focus?
During this 30-minute session, you will:
- join a 5-minute guided Mini Mindfulness practice - recharge your mind
- plan a 'Deep Work' focus hour for this week - protect time for quality focus
- plan a high quality restorative break for the next 24 hours - find valuable perspective.
PLEASE NOTE: You must complete the facilitator's Zoom registration form to access your personalised meeting link. See joining instructions for further details.
This short, interactive workshop will introduce you to practical tools that will help you test and refine how you are articulating your research vision.
We will not generate ideas for new research projects in the session but, rather, explore what makes a potential research topic compelling. We will also explore how you can assess whether your ideas add up to a vision that is bold, exciting, coherent, and – hopefully – fundable.
This session would benefit researchers at the initial stages of developing a proposal for funding, and may work well as preparation for one of our sessions on Writing Fellowship Grants with Impact.
We will not review specific funding schemes or application materials in this workshop.
Please note: It is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, click on Add to Calendar to start the process of importing the course appointment to your calendar.
This short, interactive session will introduce the fundamental principles of Lean - a methodology which prioritises continuous improvement and respect for people.
Lean is a philosophy and way of working which removes waste from activities and ensures that emphasis is given to tasks that provide added value. Originally developed by Toyota, it is now widely used across many sectors including the NHS and Higher Education.
During this masterclass for postdocs, you will:
- gain a high-level understanding of continuous improvement tools and techniques, and how you can apply them
- develop skills to identify and remove waste in your day-to-day activities to become more effective and efficient.
Please note: it is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
As you progress in your career, you will have to navigate the transition from being managed and supervised by others, to taking on leadership of projects and people for the first time.
Using our own experience of leadership, along with discussion and theories, we will look at a variety of aspects of successful leadership within the research and innovation context.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for you to:
- think about your aims in terms of leadership
- take stock of your own leadership attributes and experience
- identify how to further develop your research and innovation leadership potential.
Please note: It is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
Do you know when it is appropriate to negotiate, and how to do this effectively? Would you like to improve your skills in communicating with influence?
This interactive session will introduce you to key principles of influencing and negotiation that can be applied in workplace situations.
In this 90-minute session, you will:
- explore key principles of negotiation
- identify the difference between asking and negotiating
- gain practical techniques for communicating with influence
- identify the appropriate negotiating style for your context.
You will have the opportunity to practice some of these skills in the session. To make the most of this session, we recommend that you come prepared to participate in discussions and activities.
Thu 11 Jan 2024
14:00
Finished
Do you find it difficult to stay on track in the pursuit of your career aspirations? Or would you like to improve your ability to set achievable goals?
In this one-hour interactive masterclass, you will:
- learn to apply a well-established goal-setting technique (SMART goals) that will support you in realising your career aspirations
- have the opportunity to discuss and develop your long- and short-term goals with support from your peers
- acquire strategies for holding yourself accountable.
By the end of this session, you should have developed at least one goal that will lead to progress within your overall career plan and strategies for holding yourself accountable.
The session will give you protected time, space and support to develop your goals.
Do you worry about conflict and disagreement in your team? Do you use strategies to avoid conflict? Do you want to better understand how groups and teams function in order to improve your productivity?
Conflict and disagreement are a natural and inevitable part of group development. What’s important is how this is dealt with.
In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
- learn about some key theories on group/team development
- examine strategies to address disagreement in a way which enables you to achieve your team’s goals
- look at some real-world conflict scenarios and apply strategies
- work on a situation from your own context and get feedback.
This workshop is for anyone who works as part of a team and wants to better understand how teams function, or if you are an aspiring team leader looking for strategies to manage teams.
Thu 2 May 2024
14:00
[Places]
Funders of academic research and employers of researchers are increasingly valuing individuals with entrepreneurial spirit and a broader set of skills that can be used to innovate and create impact from research.
Researchers with these skills are at an advantage when applying for permanent academic positions, securing research funding, or pursuing commercialisation opportunities.
This interactive session will introduce you to:
- what an entrepreneurial mindset is and how all researchers can adopt and develop this to pursue their interests
- the frameworks and tools that are used in the startup world to create compelling business opportunities
- how you can adapt these to support innovative research, create impact, and secure grant or fellowship funding
- how to create your personal "elevator pitch" to introduce yourself and create new opportunities at networking events or to future employers.
Please note: it is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
In the increasingly competitive field of fellowship funding, your applications need to stand out immediately.
During this online masterclass for early career researchers, you'll learn key considerations for preparing a strong fellowship application.
The session will explore:
- desirability, feasibility and viability
- what’s important to the funder
- elements of successful applications
- how to plan for impact.
It will consist of a 60-minute talk, followed by 30 minutes for you to ask questions.
Please note: It is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, click on Add to Calendar to start the process of importing the course appointment to your calendar.
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Would you like to focus better on the work that is important to you? Do you find you have too many distractions and struggle to prioritise?
In this 1-hour online session, you will learn techniques to help you:
- enhance your focus on your most important work
- reduce distraction and prioritise more effectively
- establish daily habits to relieve stress, reduce self-criticism and strengthen resilience
- create space to recognise your achievements each day.
The session is followed by a 4-day Nudge Course. This provides one technique per day to help you convert the techniques you’ve learned into useful habits.
For 48 hours following the session, you will also have the opportunity to contact Joy, a mental health nurse with over 40 years’ experience. Joy will offer a confidential listening ear and signpost you to further support.
In the increasingly competitive field of fellowship funding, applications need to stand out immediately to capture reviewers’ interest and to maximise the chance of being funded.
This accelerated session, aimed at early career researchers, highlights key considerations in preparing a strong fellowship application.
The session explores:
- desirability, feasibility and viability – planning your project
- what’s important to the funder
- how applications are assessed
- writing style - how to get noticed
- project, person, place, partners – elements of successful fellowships
- how to plan for impact – ‘so what’ , ‘now what’
The session will have two parts:
- A talk that will last for 45-60 mins
- An opportunity for you to ask your own questions a 30 min Q&A.
The Speaker: Richard Henning Brodersen, Research Development Manager, Research Operations Office Richard leads the pre-award team for the School of Technology at Cambridge University. He has over 10 years’ experience supporting and co-writing research funding applications including fellowships, research grants and industry collaborations for a wide range of funders across the arts, humanities and sciences. Prior to working in higher education Richard had a successful career in financial consultancy and in the further education sector.
Be sure to check out the other sessions in our Postdocs Masterclass series in the "Related Courses" section below!
Have you heard of the new 'Narrative CV' structure? Funders are increasingly using it in their calls, and you may begin to notice it in job recruitment, too.
If you have not worked with this format before, or if you have but feel there is room to improve, this workshop is for you.
We will:
- discuss what to put in each section
- help you develop your writing style
- introduce various tools and approaches to deal with the block of a blank page
- work with peers to help shape a successful narrative.
Crucially, you will leave this writing retreat having started an initial draft that you can polish and use for future applications.
Tue 30 Jan 2024
10:00
Finished
Our core values define what is most important to us, but few of us spend time consciously exploring these.
Understanding whether our goals, aspirations, decisions and actions align with our values can help us to identify what motivates us. This can also help us understand when and why we experience joy or frustration in our day-to-day lives.
In this one-hour interactive masterclass, you will be given time and space to:
- reflect on your personal values and what is important to you
- consider how you can better satisfy these values in your work and personal life
- support (and receive support from) your peers.
This workshop will introduce you to a range of core project management principles which you can apply within your research projects to more effectively plan and monitor your activities.
In this 3-hour online session, you will:
- examine how to define the scope of a research project, including the delivery of outputs, impact and knowledge exchange
- discuss how to engage and manage the expectations of stakeholders to enable smooth project delivery
- explore how your planning and monitoring of research projects is shaped by your methodologies and the expectations of funders
- learn to use key planning, risk management and monitoring tools to effectively manage research projects
- identify your own challenges in managing research projects and discuss ways to overcome them.
Please note: it is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
In today's diverse workplaces, speaking the same language is just the beginning. Our cultural backgrounds profoundly shape how we connect, collaborate and influence, impacting team performance.
This session will explore the varying facets of diversity and experience that contribute to cultural differences, and the vital role of intercultural competence in inclusive leadership.
It will help you to:
- understand the different layers that contribute to ‘culture’ and the role of cultural intelligence for leaders
- recognise how international and other types of cultural diversity can impact team dynamics
- cultivate inclusive leadership skills to foster collaboration and synergy among diverse teams
- be comfortable asking questions and starting conversations to address cultural differences in a more productive way.
Do you struggle to stay focused and be as productive as you would like?
There are many factors that can distract you from maximising your productivity such as stress, procrastination and competing priorities.
The aim of Protect Focus is to help you establish protective habits that optimise focus and manage distractions using simple techniques proven by science to help postdocs:
- plan your calendar for the week ahead to protect dedicated focus hours for the most important work
- recap on the neuroscience of focus and plan your 'flow state ritual'
- plan a daily 'Restorative Break', to relieve stress, reduce self-criticism and strengthen resilience
- learn how to strengthen relationships to increase your confidence and protect from feelings of isolation.
After the session we will be supporting you with a range of mini sessions you can drop into over the next 4 weeks.
PLEASE NOTE: You must complete the facilitator's Zoom registration form to access your personalised meeting link. See joining instructions for further details.
Would you like to be more deliberate about what you say yes to, and become more confident at saying no?
In this 90 minute interactive workshop, you will gain insights into:
- creating a strategic approach to saying yes
- negotiating your workload
- building confidence to say no to requests.
You will have the opportunity to explore how you can apply the theory in practice, and to discuss the challenges of saying no in an academic setting.
Please note: It is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, click on Add to Calendar to start the process of importing the course appointment to your calendar.
Collaboration is highly valued in research today and is responsible for many of the most important modern advances in knowledge and understanding.
This webinar aims to help you plan and maintain your research collaboration successfully, so both you and your collaborators can enjoy and benefit from the journey.
In this 2-hour online masterclass, we’ll consider:
- the advantages and barriers to a collaborative approach
- what drives successful collaborations
- the ‘rules’ and process of planning, establishing, managing and working together
- partnerships outside of academia
- what you can do if things aren’t working out.
This session will require your input so you should have your camera and microphone on and come prepared to be an active participant.
Please note: it is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
Being able to effectively manage your workload in a proactive and realistic way is key to a successful research career.
Understanding task and relationship management techniques can help you better balance the demands on your time as a postdoc, as well as reducing your stress.
In this interactive half-day workshop, you will learn practical techniques that you can implement to consistently improve your day-to-day productivity.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- manage your activities more proactively through planning and negotiation
- feel more confident in how to prioritise, make decisions, and say no
- better manage your email and meeting habits.
Bring your productivity issues to the session ready for some practical troubleshooting!
Please note: It is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, click on Add to Calendar to start the process of importing the course appointment to your calendar.
Have you ever walked into a meeting and questioned your right to be there? Or taken on a new job and then felt you weren’t really the right person for it?
For many people, this is a common life experience and one which can be quite debilitating if left unchecked. This session focuses on identifying the set behaviours that are often referred to as ‘imposter syndrome’, and the implications they can have for yourself and your work environment.
During this session, you will:
- find out more about ‘imposter syndrome’ and its prevalence among researchers and academics
- identify the impact it can have on you and your work
- learn about different ways to overcome it and thrive by being at your best.
Please note: it is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
Communicating your work well, through both writing and presenting, are important skills in any successful research career.
Writing well doesn’t come naturally to most people - feeling comfortable writing powerful papers is something we can learn through theory and practice. Dr Anna Ploszajski's career is living proof of that!
In this workshop, you will gain the skills you need to write confidently and engagingly to any future audience, be they professionals or the public.
It will cover:
- how to tailor your message to your audience
- how to structure like a creative story
- practical tips on using English language to increase the impact of your words.
No prior experience of writing is required – this training is for everyone from folks who detest writing, to regular communicators looking to step up their game to the next level.
Please note: it is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar.
Communicating your work well, through both writing and presenting, are important skills in any successful research career.
Presenting well doesn’t come naturally to most people - feeling comfortable giving strong presentations is something we can learn through theory and practice. Dr Anna Ploszajski's career is living proof of that!
In this workshop, you will gain the skills you need to speak confidently and engagingly to any future audience, be they professionals or the public.
It will cover:
- how to tailor your message to your audience
- how to structure like a creative story
- practical tips on using body language to increase the impact of your words.
No prior experience of presenting is required – this training is for everyone from folks who detest presenting, to regular communicators looking to step up their game to the next level.
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