Careers workshops

We offer research staff a range of career management workshops.

List of careers workshops

  • Academic Interviews
  • Briefing Session: Academic CVs
  • Briefing Session: Career Anxiety
  • Briefing Session: Career Decision-making
  • Briefing Session: Grow your Career with Entrepreneurial Thinking
  • Briefing Session: Narrative CVs
  • Briefing Session: Non-Academic CVs
  • LinkedIn & Social Media Retreat
  • Squiggly Careers and your Options

For full workshop descriptions, dates, times and direct booking links, visit the workshops and events page. You can search by keyword, date and tags to find relevant opportunities.

Eligibility, Booking and Cancelling

Eligibility

Our careers workshops are open to research staff on fixed term contracts (research assistants and associates, post-docs, and research fellows) and academic teaching staff on fixed term contracts (teaching assistants and teaching fellows). We also support academic staff on open ended contracts with review dates (OERD), this does not include academic staff on open-ended lecturing contracts.

Booking

Workshops open for booking at the start of the academic year. To find out more about any of the Researcher Development workshops, including workshop descriptions, dates, times and booking links, visit our workshops and events page and use the filter to search.

Workshops and events

Workshops can also be booked through People and Money.

Cancelling

If you need to cancel your booking, please do so at your earliest opportunity and at least 3 days before the event. Someone else may be able to take your place, but we need time to contact them. Also, although you are not charged for an event, there are costs we incur which relate directly to places reserved.

How to cancel
  • Log in to People & Money
  • From your People & Money home page, click on Me, then on the Learning tile to open the Learning App.
  • Click on Current Learning
  • Click on the name of the workshop booking you wish to cancel
  • In the Actions menu (top right corner) select Withdraw, complete the Reason to Withdraw questions, and click Submit.