Being a PI

Introduction to leadership (more broadly than having a vision and influencing skills)

• Discovering your leadership - OD&PL Leadership and Professional Practice programme
• Psychological perspectives: adjusting your behaviour to achieve successful outcomes - synchronous workshops
• Psychometrics - tools from OD&PL Leadership and Professional Practice to help you develop your self awareness, identify your strengths and help inform how you work with your team.

Recruitment and selection

• Introduction to recruitment for managers - synchronous workshop
• Recruitment and selection how to get the right people - synchronous workshop (not currently available)
• Recruitment guide - Human Resources (HR) information source
• Equality and inclusion: an introduction for all colleagues - Equality and Inclusion Unit information source

Inclusive management

• Equality and inclusion: an introduction for all colleagues - Equality and Inclusion Unit information source

Managing the project (including delivering results and managing the project budget)

• Health and safety: the role of the manager - synchronous workshop
• Project management foundations: small projects ("small" similar to a typical research project) - LinkedIn Learning material
• Managing awards, including project setup and contracting - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source
• A practical guide to delivering results - University of Leeds guidance

Developing your research staff (Concordat on the career development of research staff)

• Introduction to management - synchronous workshop
• The Concordat and developing your staff - self guided resource (coming soon)
• What development looks like (not currently available)
• An introduction to having difficult conversations - synchronous workshop
• Concordat for the career development of researchers at Leeds - information source
• Managers’ guidance - Human Resources (HR) information source

Managing meetings

• Online meetings includes guidance on using technology and facilitating the meeting - LinkedIn Learning collection

Research outputs and metrics

• Where to publish for staff - Library self guided resource
• Outputs, making them available and logging them - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source
• Open research - Library information source
• Research excellence - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source
• University of Leeds Responsible Research Metrics Statement - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) hosted information

Delivering research impact

• Research impact resources - self guided resources, development opportunities and information sources (some of which are included below)
• Impact coaching - longitudinal support for researchers
• Building impact momentum (BIM) - synchronous programme
• Policy influencing: UK and international - a set of University of Leeds self guided resources accessed via LinkedIn Learning
• Engage more effectively with policy - Policy Leeds people development opportunities including information about the Policy Engagement Kickstart programme
• Public Engagement - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information resource linking to professional development opportunities for researchers including networks and the Engagement Excellence Scheme
• Impact - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source which included links to the following
• What is IP - Research and Innovation Service (RIS) information source
• University's commercialisation process - a Research and Innovation Service (RIS) managed process

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)