Being a PI

Introduction to leadership

What is you approach to leadership beyond having a research vision?

• Discovering your leadership - OD&PL Leadership and Professional Practice programme
• Psychological perspectives: adjusting your behaviour to achieve successful outcomes - synchronous workshops
• Leaders toolkit and resources  - from OD&PL Leadership and Professional Practice

Recruitment and selection

How do you go about recruiting a member of staff or post doc?

• 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

How do you ensure you manage equitably?

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

Managing the project

How do you ensure your project delivers results within 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

How do you support the professional and career development of the people you manage?

• 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

How do you ensure meetings have purpose and lead to action?

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

Research outputs and metrics

How do you ensure your research gets out there, can be found and accessed, and its excellence recognised?

• 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

How do you deliver research impact and capture evidence of this?

• 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

How do you the environment 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?

• 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)