Category: Connection and Belonging
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Launching the UofG Fellow’s Network
By Dr Rachel Herries – Researcher Development Specialist for Research Staff, Dr Maria McPhillips – Head of Strategic Research Initiatives, and Dr Kay Guccione – Head of Research Culture and Researcher Development. Take a minute to imagine a good research leader. Perhaps you are imagining someone you know, someone you’ve met, or the person you […]
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Overcoming Imposterism
By Suzie Shapiro, PGR Mental Health Adviser “I’m a fraud – everyone is going to find out!” “Everyone could do a better job of this than me” “I don’t belong here” What’s going on? If any of the above sound familiar, you have likely experienced feelings of imposterism… and you would be in good company. […]
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Championing our older ‘early career researchers’: an emerging network for peer support
By Dr Sam Oakley, Research Governance and Integrity Manager Our older PGRs and postdocs told us that sometimes communications and development opportunities did not land well with them, particularly those aimed at ‘early career researchers’ when some of them felt at a later stage in their personal career journey. We decided to explore these issues […]
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Co-Design and Collaboration: Let our Research Staff Flourish
By Dr Rachel Chin, Researcher Development Project Officer Continuing our Postdoc Appreciation Week theme, we can share with you some big plans. We are about to open applications for the pilot of our new Research Staff Development framework – Flourish! In today’s academic world collaboration in research, research outputs, and events is increasingly expected and […]
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To appreciate your postdocs, go beyond the superficial
By Dr Kay Guccione, Head of Research Culture and Researcher Development The Research Culture and Researcher Development Team are reflecting during this Postdoc Appreciation week, on what it really means to ‘appreciate’ our research staff. It’s been three years since the second iteration of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers was published, […]
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People Make Research – recognising those who make a positive difference to our research culture.
By Kay Guccione, Head of Research Culture and Researcher Development, Chris Pearce, Vice Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Miles Padgett, Academic Champion for Culture. Our city slogan tells us that People Make Glasgow, and in Research Services we believe that People Make Research. UofG’s People Make Research project launched for the first time […]
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Be The Change: designing impactful leadership development for PGRs
By Joanna Royle (Researcher Development Specialist for PGRs) with Chris Russell (My Consultants course lead) and Kevin Leomo (Postgraduate Leadership Programme participant and PGR Leader) It is graduation season: that wildly joyful time of year when we celebrate our postgraduate researchers who will go on to be leaders in scholarship, industry, policy, and society. Leadership […]
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Making Space for Engagement – Glasgow’s new Advanced Research Centre
Dr Ken Skeldon is Research Engagement Manager at the University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre, or ARC for short was officially opened on 8 June and will soon be fully operational, providing 16,000 square metres of new research infrastructure over 5 floors and a new home for over 500 researchers. Interdisciplinarity […]
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Positive steps to reduce perfectionism
By Suzie Shapiro, PGR Mental Health Adviser Undertaking research work is an exciting and fulfilling opportunity; however, it is also likely to be intense and demanding. Often a solitary role, where self-motivation is critical and the supervisor relationship is highly impactful on your experience, life as a researcher can bring context-specific wellbeing and mental health […]
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Supervising disabled and chronically ill PGRs
Dr Jennifer Leigh is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent. She has written on various aspects of marginalisation in academia and STEM, and creative, reflective, and embodied research methods. She is co-editor of the 2020 book Ableism in Academia, which you can download for free here. Dr […]
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Neurodiversity in research: Rethinking rules and expectations
Elliott Spaeth is a Lecturer in Academic and Digital Development at the University of Glasgow. He is trans, disabled, and neurodivergent. What is neurodiversity and why do I need to know about it? In 2015, an image of a dress went viral because people saw its colours differently – some saw blue and black, others […]
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Reducing stress in doctoral supervision, engage with your community
By Dr Kay Guccione, Researcher Development Manager A couple of weeks ago I put together a workshop for University of Glasgow supervisors called Working with Stressed Researchers. The workshop used this short article on how to respond to stressed researchers as a prompt for discussion. The article is part of the toolkit from the ‘Are […]
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More JEDI needed in PhD supervision
Originally posted on A community blog, on doctoral supervision relationships and pedagogies:
This is part one of a double bill on supervision and diversity, by Dr Jessica Gagnon (@Jess_Gagnon) an educational sociologist, focused on inequalities in higher education. She has worked in higher education in the US and UK for more than 20 years. Jessica… -
What does research culture mean… for PGRs?
By Mary Beth Kneafsey, PGR Strategy Manager Last week I was fortunate to virtually attend a conference, the 5th International Conference on Developments in Doctoral Education and Training where the theme was ‘research cultures’. There was a clear link in the presentations between the PGR student experience and what was identified as a positive research […]
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When is a Fresher not a Fresher? Welcoming Postgraduate Researchers
By Dr Joanna Royle, Researcher Development Adviser for PGRs Like lots of us, I have warm, if fuzzy, memories of my undergraduate Freshers Week. A chaotic jumble of queuing with forms; signing up for a dozen student societies I would hardly attend; cake crawls; parties; and haplessly trying to seem cool to other equally nervous […]
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A ‘Talent Lab’ for Research Staff
By Dr Rachel Herries, Researcher Development Specialist (Concordat Implementation), and designer of the Talent Lab for Research Staff. The University of Glasgow signed up to the Researcher Development Concordat in May 2020. If you aren’t sure what this it, it’s worth your time taking a look at this important document that sets out the conditions, […]
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The ecology of researcher development
By Dr Kay Guccione (@kayguccione), Researcher Development Team I imagine that if I were to ask you how you came to know what you know about the job you do, or the career you are building, we would talk for hours. Where is development? Every subject matter and professional development course, lecture, workshop, info session, […]
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Inclusion as a design principle
By the Researcher Development Team The University of Glasgow’s Strategy 2025 asks us to lead with our values and put people first in recognition that ideas flow more freely when our staff and students feel valued and supported. As such, and as inclusive educators, the Researcher Development Team is keenly committed to ensuring that all […]
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