the inclusion of university-wide equality training for researchers from October 2018. UoP Women’s Network lunchtime lecture series and Careers: career “Carers development and access to leadership positions among academic staff with caring responsibilities” 1st February 2018 and open to all staff and PGRs. Access to research training and 3, 4, 5 The Researcher Development Graduate School and Research The new GoodPractice toolkit is a continuous development Programme continues to be Support & Development to development tool that will complement the developed annually. It is continue to develop programmes targeted Researcher Development available to all PGRs and and opportunities for researchers’ Programme and Research Support Researcher Development Research Staff. development. Programme. Programme to continue to be reviewed and revised annually The introduction of an (annual revisions since 2003). Success measure: we will work The 2015-2016 Research Support additional Research Support Lead: Graduate School towards a minimum 5% increase in Programme had 412 staff engagements Programme focussed on August 2014 programme engagements by July however the 2016-2017 programme research means that 2016. increased to 471 staff engagements. researchers can access Feedback indicated that many research training and development staff had already attended training sessions New Research Staff opportunities in two available between 2013– 2015 and Development Programme Lead: Research Support & programmes. therefore a review of the programme mapped against RDF rolled out Development/ Graduate School included updates to existing sessions and from September 2013. July 2016 CROS 2015 highlights 89% the introduction of new sessions to meet the Programme and to be closely Plymouth University ongoing development needs of staff. New monitored during its pilot year researchers agreed they had initiatives were introduced in 2016-2017 from September 2013. Lead: access to training & including tailored training and events for Research Support & development opportunities Faculty and Institute cohorts as well Development / Graduate (83% for sector). increased online support and webinars. School August 2014 CROS 2017 indicates that 72% of Research Staff had received training in skills ‘research and techniques’ compared to the Sector (43%), 80% had received training in and diversity’ compared to the ‘equality Sector (46%), and 64% had received
the inclusion of university-wide equality training for researchers from October 2018. UoP Women’s Network lunchtime lecture series “Carers and Careers: career development and access to leadership positions among academic staff with caring responsibilities” 1st February 2018 and open to all staff and PGRs. Access to research training and continuous development Researcher Development Programme to continue to be reviewed and revised annually (annual revisions since 2003). Lead: Graduate School August 2014 New Research Staff Development Programme mapped against RDF rolled out from September 2013. Programme and to be closely monitored during its pilot year from September 2013. Lead: Research Support & Development / Graduate School August 2014 3, 4, 5 The Researcher Development Programme continues to be developed annually. It is available to all PGRs and Research Staff. The introduction of an additional Research Support Programme focussed on research means that researchers can access training and development opportunities in two programmes. CROS 2015 highlights 89% Plymouth University researchers agreed they had access to training & development opportunities (83% for sector). Graduate School and Research Support & Development to continue to develop programmes and opportunities for researchers’ development. Success measure: we will work towards a minimum 5% increase in programme engagements by July 2016. Lead: Research Support & Development/ Graduate School July 2016 The new GoodPractice toolkit is a development tool that will complement the targeted Researcher Development Programme and Research Support Programme. The 2015-2016 Research Support Programme had 412 staff engagements however the 2016-2017 programme increased to 471 staff engagements. Feedback indicated that many research staff had already attended training sessions available between 2013– 2015 and therefore a review of the programme included updates to existing sessions and the introduction of new sessions to meet the ongoing development needs of staff. New initiatives were introduced in 2016-2017 including tailored training and events for Faculty and Institute cohorts as well increased online support and webinars. CROS 2017 indicates that 72% of Research Staff had received training in ‘research skills and techniques’ compared to the Sector (43%), 80% had received training in ‘equality and diversity’ compared to the Sector (46%), and 64% had received
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