Career Coaching for Postdoctoral Researchers – starts 6 February 2025

Programme overview

This bespoke career coaching programme will lead you through the spectrum of career activities and enable you to make informed career choices and decisions.

Running for six weeks, the programme will consist of three key parts:
• Identification of your current career situation, developing a deep personal understanding of what is important in a job or career and exploring potential options.
• Identifying relevant opportunities, making applications with particular emphasis on tailoring applications to different researcher career opportunities.
• Preparing you for success at interview by introducing a range of tools and a safe space to apply your learning.

Network development and marketing yourself will also feature in this training programme.

Time commitment:

Weekly sessions of 1.5-2 hours along with 30 minutes each week of pre and post-session preparation and follow-up.

To maximise the benefits of this programme, the requirement to attend all of the sessions and complete the pre and post-session work is strongly recommended.

The group size will be limited to 12 participants for this programme, to enable the best outcomes for those who do attend.  In the event of oversubscription, we will inform you whether you have secured a place on the training programme.

Dates and times:

• 6 February 2025 (09:30-11:30)
• 13 February 2025 (09:30-11:00)
• 20 February 2025 (09:30-11:00)
• 27 February 2025 (09:30-11:00)
• 6 March 2025 (09:30-11:00)
• 13 March 2025 (09:30-11:00)

There will be further, optional, opportunities for one-to-one coaching in late March 2025 for those who have completed the training programme.

Benefits to postdoctoral researchers:

• Increased self-awareness and clarification of current career situation (Concordat, 2019)
• Opportunity to reflect on and consider what this means and a place to start or progress career planning (Wellcome, 2020)
• Opportunity to investigate whether, and how, to make changes, if desired – taking control of career (Concordat, 2019)
• Access to tailored career development opportunities relevant to identified areas via engagement with career professional/training (Concordat, 2019)

Eve Uhlig:

Eve has 16 years’ experience supporting researcher’s career development, via designing and implementing bespoke mentoring programmes, career development programmes and 1:1 career coaching sessions.  In addition to a Master’s in Career Guidance she holds two professional coaching qualifications and is a member of an independent professional practice coaching group ‘Coaching Connections’.

Registering for this programme:

You can register using the booking link below and you must also complete the pre-course Microsoft form: Register your interest