Becoming a Research Leader: Know Yourself

This is a closed workshop open only to those who previously applied to attend.

The CRASSH ‘Becoming a Research Leader’ programme offers an intensive and structured process for thinking about and building research leadership.

Good leadership can makes things happen in ways that are truly productive and sustaining. Intellectual bravery and bravura are givens. This programme focuses on skills and ways of thinking that transform nascent ideas into fully-fledged initiatives, whether through a collaborative research grant, an international network or conference, or public scholarship. This is the second of three closed workshops for the successful applicants to the programme.

Workshop 2: Know yourself

Focusing on: leadership qualities (resilience, self-awareness); understanding the role of networks and mentors; thinking about assumptions – limiting, enabling, true and not-so-true; strengths, blind-spots and ambitions; core skills (listening, managing meetings, collaborating) and strategies for building these; managing complex projects (time, priorities, efforts)

Hosted by the CRASSH Post-Doctoral Forum in conjunction with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (UK).

Convenor:  Dr Alison Wood, a post-doctoral fellow at CRASSH and co-convenor of the Post-Doctoral Forum 2014-2016

Facilitators: Shirley Wardell and Dr David Faraday, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (UK) with Dr Sharon Saunders (Professional and Personal Development) and Dr Steve Joy (Careers Service), University of Cambridge.

For further information about the programme please contact Dr Alison Wood.

Other events in this series.

Monday 12 October
Workshop 1: Know the landscape

Thursday 3 December
Know about others