managing research

Policy into Practice:EURAXESS Researcher Career Skills for Career Development

PIPERS

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Helping researchers to pursue their professional ambitions:A workshop for staff assisting researchers’ development

21-22 JUNE 2016

WARSAW, POLAND

Managing Research


Developing Research Leaders


What skills does a research leader need in academia?

Process

10 minute discussion in pairs and report back


Emergent themes from the research literature (on HE Leadership)

• Establishing credibility and trust• Demonstrating self-awareness• Providing a direction and a support structure to

achieve that direction• Positive (problems into opportunities) attitude• Challenging the existing processes• Articulating convincing rationale for change• Devolving leadership and delegating effectively (not

dumping)


• Ensuring a community of practice – focus on process,

not just product.• Recognising and celebrating excellence• Providing a culture where people can fulfil their

potential• Enabling others to act and take responsibility• Promoting the group as a success• Defending or protecting staff from outside factors


What skills does a research leader need in industry?

Process

10 minute discussion in tables and report back


Intrapreneurial Skills

Personal motivation ■ Initiative ■ Highly motivated ■ Gaining personal reward from seeing an idea through.

Creating ideas and opportunities ■ Creativity ■ Seeing (recognising) opportunities that others have not

seen ■ Open minded.


Working with people ■ Co-operating with others ■ Managing people and expectations at all levels ■ Excellent networking.

Influencing change ■ Problem solving ■ Removing barriers to idea realisation ■ Self-confidence to initiate or lead change

processes ■ Persuasion and negotiation ■ Taking and managing risks ■ Tolerance of ambiguity ■ Resilience.


Relating to context ■ Understanding of individual strengths in innovation

processes ■ Understanding of corporate politics and organisational

culture ■ Social awareness to make innovations meaningful ■ Commercially aware.


How do we train research leaders for academia?

Discussion in tables (10 minutes)


Leading Research

Module in Postgraduate Certificate and Masters in Academic PracticeModule 1 Learning and teaching in higher educationModule 2 Student learning as a basis for reflexive

practiceModule 3 Project on learning and teachingModule 4 Research student supervisionModule 5 Developing funded researchModule 6 Leadership in learning and teachingModule 7 Leading researchModule 8 Designing higher education enquiries


Programme• Workshop 1 – Introduction (3.5 hours)• Workshop 2a – The Research Leader as Manager (1) (7

hours)• Workshop 2b – The Research Leader as Manager (2) (7

hours)• Workshop 3 - Wider Research Environment: Key

Challenges and Support from Research Office (2 hours)• Workshop 4 – Research Governance (Key Issues) (2 hours)• Workshop 5 – Establishing Resources: Staff & Equipment (2

hours)• Workshop 6 – Managing Your Budget (2 hours)


• Workshop 7 – Introduction to Employment law (2 hours)• Workshop 8 – Equality and Diversity (2 hours)• Workshop 9 – Introduction to Contracts and IP (2 hours)• Workshop 10 - Health & Safety Principles & Wellbeing (2 hours)• Workshop 11 – Impact (2 hours)• Workshop 12 – How to make the Headlines: Raising your Global Profile (2 hours)• Workshop 13 – Academic Impact, Bibliometrics and Altmetrics (2 hours)• Workshop 14 – Open Access & Data Management (2 hours)


• Workshop 15 – Unconscious Bias (2 hours)• Workshop 16 – Project Management (2 hours)• Workshop 17 – Managing Your Research Project (7 hours)• Workshop 18 – Strategy for Research (7 hours)• Workshop 19 – Writing for Publication (1 hour one-to-one

session)

Workshops 1, 2a, 2b, 3, 7, 8, 17 and 18 are compulsory. Participants must attend at least 6 of the remaining 13 modules.


Other project and time management interventions

• Formal project management qualifications – e.g. PRINCE2 in UK

• Project management software – Microsoft Project• Informal project management


On-line provision

Commercial packagese.g. Research leadershiphttps://duo.dur.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/institution/E-tutorials/psrl/funding/index.htmlDoctoral supervisionhttps://duo.dur.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/institution/E-tutorials/Supervision/approaching_supervision/index_03_aps.html

https://duo.dur.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/institution/E-tutorials/psrl/funding/index.html



https://duo.dur.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/institution/E-tutorials/Supervision/approaching_supervision/index_03_aps.html




Research Management for Doctoral Candidates


Who is responsible for the management of a doctoral research project?


What research management skills do doctoral candidates need?

Process

10 minute discussion in pairs and report back


Managing doctoral projects

Main areas for development

1. Time management2. Project management3. Supervisor management


A time and project management workshop

managing research

Self Improvement