The Imperial Leadership Development and Peer Mentoring programme for Fellows and new Lecturers facilitates valuable connections and provides you with unique opportunities to develop as a leader.
The six-month programme was conceived by fellows within the Imperial Fellows Leadership Network and designed by an experienced academic leadership coach, Dr Steve Hutchinson.
The next cohort will start with an in-person Foundational Workshop on 1 May 2025, 9.30 – 15.30. The day includes a lunch with members from previous groups. Please note: Attendance at the Foundational Workshop on 1 May 2025 is mandatory.
Key areas of the programme:
- Develop as a leader of people - Explore your leadership style, team dynamics, and ways of getting the best out of yourself and others.
- Learn the theory and practice of coaching and mentoring - Introduction to a coaching and mentoring approach to support your group. Four online lunchtime workshops (over four months) focusing on key coaching and mentoring skills.
- Build valuable connections with peers to share ideas, collaborate, and support each other in various aspects of academic life - Four self-organised peer mentoring sessions over six months in groups of 3-4 peers to encourage sharing of ideas and to foster collaboration, and to support each other with more general enabling elements of academic life, such as relationship building, strategic thinking, prioritisation, and workload management and balance. The peer mentoring groups will receive support materials and ongoing mentoring support, ensuring that the groups keep working effectively over time.
- Develop capability around the four themes of the ‘Narrative CV for Researchers’ - The peer mentoring groups will be provided with a coaching-style framework to guide conversations around the four elements of academic practice – namely those contained within the ‘Narrative CV for Researchers’ format:
- Academic Knowledge Contribution
- Developing Individuals
- Citizenship – Building a Better Academic Community
- Societal Contributions
Building on a pragmatic structure for individual reflection and peer discussion, participants are enabled to create a draft narrative CV that can be used for future fellowship, promotion applications and other academic gateways.
