Career Support
Find out about the career support we have to help you
Newcastle University Careers Service
The Newcastle University Careers Service has a range of services for research staff upto 7 years post PhD. This includes:
- 1:1 career coaching
- Career Management for Research Colleagues training programme
- Career Transitions workshop
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Faculty Early Career Research Leads
If you want to develop your research career from Research Associate to Research Fellow, our localised Early Career Research Leads can offer you advice on:
- Finding a research mentor
- How to build your CV
- Fine tune your fellowship applications.
Contact details
NUBI: Lisa.russell@ncl.ac.uk, elizabeth.veal@ncl.ac.uk
NUTCRI: Sophie.hambleton@ncl.ac.uk
NUPHSI: Bernard.corfe@ncl.ac.uk
Mentoring
NU Mentoring is a University wide scheme open to all staff. It offers a fantastic learning and development opportunity for researchers that can help build confidence, develop strategies for dealing with difficult situations, bridge a gap in knowledge and help grow networks.
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Training and Development programmes
Organisational Development (OD) offer development programmes that prepare our researchers for the role of PI and develop their management and leadership skills. Our Learning Management System brings together a range of training opportunities specifically relating to research. These include:
- PI development programme
- Managers essentials programme
- Leading through values
Staff can also access general personal development opportunities in areas such as:
- Effective networking
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Professional resilience
- Successful negotiation
- Fundamentals of project management
- Time management
- Dealing with change
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Newcastle University Academies
Newcastle University promotes best practice for research and impact through its four NU Academies. Faculty staff can access all of the resources available through the following academies to develop their own research interests and skills.
- Skills Academy
- Enterprise Academy
- Policy Academy
- Global Challenges Academy
Find out more about NU Academies.
Internal Funding Opportunities
There are a number of Internal Funding Streams available to staff involved in research to support career development and research excellence. These include:
- Research Excellence Development Awards are available to support personal professional development or fund a small research project that lets staff explore a new idea or develop data for external funding applications.
- The Tilley Hale Awards fund innovative Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement projects
- The Bridging Funding Scheme is available to retain research and technical staff whose employment depends upon external research funding.
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Additional Resources for Staff and Students.
Faculty of Medical Sciences New Investigator Network
The FMS New Investigator Network (NI-Network) is for staff at the start of their independent non-clinical research career. Members include Faculty Fellows, NUAcTs, External Fellows and newly appointed T&R Lecturers The network offers:
- The opportunity for informal peer support around common issues facing researchers day to day.
- A bi-monthly network session to share successes and solutions to practical problems.
- Talks from invited speakers on key issues.
- A route to influencing Faculty and University research policy and action plans.
Contact details
Email: fms-ecr@ncl.ac.uk
Faculty of Medical Sciences Post-Doctoral Society
The FMS Post-Doctoral Society is for all Research Associates in the Faculty and is managed by the Post-Doc Committee.
The Society was formed to support and improve the experiences of researchers in the Faculty by:
• Building a community that offers peer support and practical information on key issues
• Organising the annual Post Doc Symposium
• Raising issues for discussion at Faculty level via the Post-Doc Committee.
Contact details
fmspostdoccomm@newcastle.ac.uk