These activities are more traditional ways of learning, for example through attending training workshops, courses or enrolling on longer programmes and schemes with structured learning activities.
Example development activities include:
- Workshops and training courses:
- Face to face workshops
- Online training/webinars
- Self-paced learning
- Programmes and schemes:
- Leadership and management programmes
- Enterprise schemes
- Qualifications or accreditations e.g. project management, teaching
- Tailored one to one advice e.g. mock interview training or careers advice.
- Formal training and advice may be provided internally by the College, for example by:
- The Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI)
- People and Organisational Development (POD)
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre (EDIC)
- Educational Development Unit (EDU)
- Imperial Consultants (ICON)
- Enterprise Lab
- The Careers Service
- Faculty Research Services Teams
- Library and information skills
- The Imperial Policy Forum
- Societal Engagement
- Centre for Academic English
- Adult Education Classes
- Or externally by a variety of providers, for example:
- Funders
- Learned societies and professional bodies
- Niche skills training and accredited programmes e.g. Media training and project management
- Publishers e.g. Nature masterclasses
- Public sector organisations and charities e.g. National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement
- Government/Parliament e.g. Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit
- A huge range of providers outside academia and research e.g. The School of Life, Guardian masterclasses, LinkedIn Learning
Spotlight on formal development activities:
Formal development skills
Find out from other research staff about the kinds of activities that developed their skills formally.
Examples
Self-paced online guides and training
Postdoc induction
Enterprise programmes