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Academic leader including research group leader

Academic leader including research group leader

Introduction

Consider here not only your role as a research leader but also how you combine it with your other academic roles and responsibilities. You can use the same approach suggested for establishing your development needs and plan for all research leadership roles. Additional points of reference to help with this include student education role descriptions and the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF) for benchmarking success within HE teaching and learning. In what way do you aim to lead student education as well as research? 

Balancing priorities (saying no) research, student education, university leadership

  • The productive researcher - synchronous workshop (not currently available)
  • Prioritising effectively as a leader - LinkedIn Learning material
  • Preparing for a wider academic role and empowering others  (not currently available)

Developing an academic vision

  • Achieving your vision for the future - LinkedIn Learning material. Includes approaches to developing a vision. Think research group or student education team when this resource talks about organisation, division, company etc.

Developing your leadership skills

Developing research impact

Student education

  • Student education development - OD&PL Student Education professional development opportunities. Engage with this provision to suit your level of experience and professional development needs as a teacher.  

Research culture

The focus here is on the environment within which research is done rather than a focus on winning funding, managing and administering work and producing output. How do you create and help others to create a supportive, inclusive and collaborative environment for research?

  • Research culture at Leeds - self guided resource
  • A toolkit to support researcher wellbeing (RES-WELL), practical strategies for UK research institutions, funders, and researchers in the context of emotionally or ethically challenging research - self guided resource
  • What research culture do you want to create? (not currently available)
  • Implementing a positive research culture (not currently available)