This document outlines a workshop for training research leaders. It discusses the skills needed for research leaders in academia and industry. It then describes a postgraduate certificate program that trains research leaders through 19 workshops covering topics like managing budgets, employment law, and strategy. It also discusses online training resources and the need for doctoral candidates to develop skills in time management, project management, and managing their supervisor.

1. Policy into Practice:
EURAXESS Researcher Career Skills for Career Development
PIPERS
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Helping researchers to pursue their professional ambitions:
A workshop for staff assisting researchers’ development
21-22 JUNE 2016
WARSAW, POLAND
Managing Research

2. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Developing Research Leaders

3. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
What skills does a research leader need
in academia?
Process
10 minute discussion in pairs and report back

4. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Emergent themes from the research
literature (on HE Leadership)
• Establishing credibility and trust
• Demonstrating self-awareness
• Providing a direction and a support structure to
achieve that direction
• Positive (problems into opportunities) attitude
• Challenging the existing processes
• Articulating convincing rationale for change
• Devolving leadership and delegating effectively (not
dumping)

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• Ensuring a community of practice – focus on process,
not just product.
• Recognising and celebrating excellence
• Providing a culture where people can fulfil their
potential
• Enabling others to act and take responsibility
• Promoting the group as a success
• Defending or protecting staff from outside factors

6. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
What skills does a research leader need
in industry?
Process
10 minute discussion in tables and report back

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for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Intrapreneurial Skills
Personal motivation
■ Initiative
■ Highly motivated
■ Gaining personal reward from seeing an idea through.
Creating ideas and opportunities
■ Creativity
■ Seeing (recognising) opportunities that others have not
seen
■ Open minded.

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Working with people
■ Co-operating with others
■ Managing people and expectations at all levels
■ Excellent networking.
Influencing change
■ Problem solving
■ Removing barriers to idea realisation
■ Self-confidence to initiate or lead change
processes
■ Persuasion and negotiation
■ Taking and managing risks
■ Tolerance of ambiguity
■ Resilience.

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for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Relating to context
■ Understanding of individual strengths in innovation
processes
■ Understanding of corporate politics and organisational
culture
■ Social awareness to make innovations meaningful
■ Commercially aware.

10. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
How do we train research leaders for
academia?
Discussion in tables (10 minutes)

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for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Leading Research
Module in Postgraduate Certificate and Masters in Academic
Practice
Module 1 Learning and teaching in higher education
Module 2 Student learning as a basis for reflexive
practice
Module 3 Project on learning and teaching
Module 4 Research student supervision
Module 5 Developing funded research
Module 6 Leadership in learning and teaching
Module 7 Leading research
Module 8 Designing higher education enquiries

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Programme
• Workshop 1 – Introduction (3.5 hours)
• Workshop 2a – The Research Leader as Manager (1) (7
hours)
• Workshop 2b – The Research Leader as Manager (2) (7
hours)
• Workshop 3 - Wider Research Environment: Key
Challenges and Support from Research Office (2 hours)
• Workshop 4 – Research Governance (Key Issues) (2 hours)
• Workshop 5 – Establishing Resources: Staff & Equipment (2
hours)
• Workshop 6 – Managing Your Budget (2 hours)

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for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
• Workshop 7 – Introduction to Employment law (2
hours)
• Workshop 8 – Equality and Diversity (2 hours)
• Workshop 9 – Introduction to Contracts and IP (2
hours)
• Workshop 10 - Health & Safety Principles & Wellbeing
(2 hours)
• Workshop 11 – Impact (2 hours)
• Workshop 12 – How to make the Headlines: Raising
your Global Profile (2 hours)
• Workshop 13 – Academic Impact, Bibliometrics and
Altmetrics (2 hours)
• Workshop 14 – Open Access & Data Management (2
hours)

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for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
• Workshop 15 – Unconscious Bias (2 hours)
• Workshop 16 – Project Management (2 hours)
• Workshop 17 – Managing Your Research Project (7 hours)
• Workshop 18 – Strategy for Research (7 hours)
• Workshop 19 – Writing for Publication (1 hour one-to-one
session)
Workshops 1, 2a, 2b, 3, 7, 8, 17 and 18 are compulsory.
Participants must attend at least 6 of the remaining 13
modules.

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for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Other project and time management
interventions
• Formal project management qualifications – e.g. PRINCE2
in UK
• Project management software – Microsoft Project
• Informal project management

16. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
On-line provision
Commercial packages
e.g.
Research leadership
https://duo.dur.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/institution/E-
tutorials/psrl/funding/index.html
Doctoral supervision
https://duo.dur.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/institution/E-
tutorials/Supervision/approaching_supervision/index_03_aps.html

17. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Research Management for
Doctoral Candidates

18. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Who is responsible for the management
of a doctoral research project?

19. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
What research management skills do
doctoral candidates need?
Process
10 minute discussion in pairs and report back

20. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
Managing doctoral projects
Main areas for development
1. Time management
2. Project management
3. Supervisor management

21. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme
for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330
A time and project management
workshop