Research Staff Support

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Research Staff Support

• Dr Laura Hodsdon
• Researcher Development Officer
• laura.hodsdon_at_learning.ox.ac.uk

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Concordat to Support the Career Development of
Researchers
Adapted into local Code of Practice for the
Employment and Career Development of Research
Staff
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Links with other contexts

• REF Environment Evidence required for all panels
  in Staffing strategy and staff development
  section
• Athena SWAN principles very similar, action
  plans addressing issues raised by research staff
• Grant applications
• HR Excellence Award

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Code of Practice principles

• 1. Recruitment and selection The University aims
  to recruit and select researchers with the
  highest potential to achieve excellence in
  research.
• 2. Recognition and value Researchers are
  significant participants in and contributors to
  the Universitys success in research.
• 3. Support and career development Researchers
  must be equipped and supported to be adaptable
  and flexible in an increasingly diverse, mobile,
  global research environment.
• 4. Researchers responsibilities Researchers
  personal and career development are recognised
  and promoted at all stages of their career, and
  individual researchers share the responsibility
  for their own personal and career development.
  Researchers should pro-actively engage in their
  own personal and career development.
• 5. Equality and diversity Equality and diversity
  are promoted in all aspects of the recruitment
  and career management of researchers.
• 6. Implementation and review The University will
  work with other key stakeholders in the sector to
  undertake regular and collective reviews of
  progress in strengthening the attractiveness and
  sustainability of research careers in the UK.

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Ways of connecting

• Website www.ox.ac.uk/supportforresearchers
• Research staff mailing list email
  researchstaff-subscribe_at_maillist.ox.ac.uk
• Twitter www.twitter.com/resstaffoxford
• Leaflet
• Information Event for Research Staff
  http//www.learning.ox.ac.uk/support/research

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University-wide support

• Oxford Research Staff Society
• Research Connections University of Oxford Staff
  Conference (11 July 2013)
• CROS and PIRLS
• Personal development review
• Mentoring?
• Vitae
• Researcher Development Framework

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http//www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/429351/Introduc
ing-the-Researcher-Development-Framework.html
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Oxford Learning Institute
www.learning.ox.ac.uk
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Personal and professional development

• Managing yourself e.g.
• Assertiveness
• Time management (for research staff)
• Managing upwards
• Managing stress
• Springboard (womens) Navigator (mens)
  development programme

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Management and leadership

• Managing People (online course)
• Introductory Certificate in Management
• Developing Leadership and Management Practice
• Programme for Principal Investigators
• www.learning.ox.ac.uk/courses

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Programme for Principal Investigators

• What is a productive research group and what
  impact does the PI have on this?
• Managing researchers for performance and
  development
• Having an impact making the most of IP and the
  media
• Research funding sources and issues

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Teaching development

• Developing Academic Practice (Sciences)
• Preparation for Learning and Teaching at Oxford
• Developing Learning and Teaching
• www.learning.ox.ac.uk/support/teaching