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Becoming a PI

Becoming a PI

Research vision

What is the purpose of your research?

  • Creating your research vision - synchronous workshop (not currently available)
  • Achieving your vision for the future - LinkedIn Learning material. Includes approaches to developing a vision. Think about you as a research leader and your research projects when this resource talks about organisation, division, company etc. Think post docs, colleagues and collaborators when this resource talks about employees, team etc.

Working with others

How are you going to grow and maintain the network of people you work and collaborate with?

  • Collaboration - OD&PL Leadership and Professional Practice self guided resource
  • Professional networking - LinkedIn Learning material
  • Managing globally - LinkedIn Learning material. Includes cultural agility and will help you think about how you work with collaborators and people in your network who come from different cultural contexts. Whilst the course talks about managing people the similar principles apply to working with collaborators especially when it comes to understanding and working with people’s motivations. 
  • Creating your personal brand - LinkedIn Learning material. Will help you think about how you present yourself to potential collaborators.
  • Increasing your research visibility - Library presentation recording taking you to do different website
  • Horizons Institute - connects academics and organisations to tackle societal challenges -  Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source

Challenge based research

How does societal need inform the research you do?

  • Horizons Institute, challenge theme networks - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source
  • Leeds Crucible - A programme provided by the Horizons Institute giving you an opportunity to think about how you collaborate (information currently on the Research and Innovation Service (RIS) website).

Research impact

What impact do you want your research to have and how do you achieve this?

Winning funding

What do you need to do to get research funding? You not only need to make a case that is worthy of funding but also to make it stand out from other worthy cases so that is gets funded.

Research data management

How do you safely and securely store and manage the data that results from your research?

Research integrity and ethics

How do you ensure you work in the best interests of society when doing your research and do no harm?

  • Research integrity - self guided resource
  • Safeguarding in research - self guided resource listed towards the bottom of the page on Research integrity under "Further resources."
  • 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
  • (Responsible research innovation and inclusive research design to be added under this heading as material is identified or becomes available.)

Expectations of a research leader at Leeds

(Leadership excellence behaviours)

Research culture

What environment do you want to lead research in?

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?