Exeter BRC members have access to a wealth of training and professional development opportunities
As an NIHR Exeter BRC member, you have access to a wealth of training and professional development opportunities to support you in your career progression.
We encourage all members to make the most of these – explore the highlights below.
If you’re looking for a career and not just a job, the Royal Devon is the place for you. With an established track record for bright and impassioned individuals, they’ll welcome you into the fold with learning and development opportunities and a package of support, benefits and guidance to enhance your wellbeing and transform your skillset.
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The University of Exeter’s Doctoral College stimulates, supports and sustains a vibrant research and intellectual environment across and between disciplines for postgraduate and early career researchers. Focusing on investment and development in training, resources and facilities, they provide an outstanding quality experience for those in the early stages of their research careers.
The Ideas Hub is a repository of information and your gateway to support in knowledge exchange and business engagement.
The Entrepreneurial Researcher Programme (EPR) supports researchers who are seeking to generate research impact by taking new products or services to the outside world and who are interested in exploring routes to achieve this.
The SETsquared Partnership is a world leading business incubator and enterprise partnership comprising six research-intensive universities: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. As a world-leading business incubator, they provide a wide range of highly acclaimed support programmes to help turn ideas into thriving businesses.
Find a full list of the programmes here.
We recommend starting with one of the following:
The Early Career Researcher (ECR) hub support ECRs in training and development; initiatives and funding; support; news and events.
Additional opportunities for Women Leaders include:
Every researcher, regardless of discipline or career level, can make a valuable contribution to policy-making, and there are various routes you can take to engage with policy-makers in a way that is relevant to your research and fits into your impact strategy. Policy@Exeter Resources Hub provide a monthly programme of in-house training and advice sessions. These sessions are available to all members of staff and students at the University regardless of career level or discipline.
Get in touch with the UoE Policy Team if you have any questions or would like a 1:1 to discuss how to develop your policy engagement strategy.
You can subscribe to their newsletter here to be kept up to date.
TheCoding for Reproducible Research team delivers a series of hybrid workshops focused on supporting research staff to develop and expand their computing skills. The programme covers training relating to good practise and reproducible working methods that is designed to be agnostic of programming language.
Courses to be offered include the below:
Visit the website for further details and upcoming courses.
Training and development opportunities at both the Faculty and/or Department or Discipline level are also available for you to access.
The University has created a centralised Research Software Engineering (RSE) group that will assist the research community with complex and bespoke research software needs. You can find out about all the courses they offer on their website. If there is a course you are particularly interested in attending, please sign up to their mailing list to get priority notification of when it opens.
Early Career Researchers have access to the One Step Beyond mentoring scheme, an academic mentoring scheme which spans across all faculties. Participating in the scheme is an entirely voluntary, but formal, arrangement whereby a mentor, outside the reporting relationship, holds regular meetings to support the development of a less experience member of staff. This could be someone at a higher grade or a peer who has experience in the areas you have identified.
A long-standing cornerstone of the professional development opportunities offered by GW4 Alliance, theshared training scheme facilitates the principle of freedom of movement by allowing staff and students at any GW4 university to access the training and resources from across the four institutions – Exeter, Bath, Bristol and Cardiff.
GW4 offers a range of funding and development opportunities across the four universities, available to both staff and doctoral students to support the research endeavour (including collaborative research networks, expert training opportunities and shared resources e.g. GW4 Treasures and shared equipment). The GW4 also hosts a range ofevents.
Training highlights include:
The Academy of Medical Sciences is a champion for those working in biomedical and health research in the UK. They offer an innovative range of programmes and career development work supporting biomedical and health researchers, encouraging people to embark on a career in medical research. Highlights are outlined below:
Developing a research skilled workforce is an NHS England South West-funded work programme to promote engagement with the regional research strategy and create sustainable research skills, capacity, and capabilities for all health and care professionals. The programme includes building relationships, collaborating with Integrated Care Boards and provider organisations, identifying good practice, and rolling out supportive, sustainable structures.
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