Leadership resources for researcher representatives

Researcher representatives are research staff who take on roles that involve sitting on and actively contributing to committees, leading and running researcher-led societies and organising events and developing initiatives as part of their research group, School/Institute.

We have created a suite of leadership resources that support different areas researchers will come across in representative roles.  The aim of these resources are to support individuals to develop the relevant skills to make the most of their roles, recognise the contribution they make to the University and help sustain and develop representative structures.

These short, asynchronous, self-paced online resources have been designed to allow researchers to complete at their own pace and at a time that is appropriate to their individual needs and learning requirements.  The resources allow researchers to learn about relevant processes, they include further reading, links and time for reflection.  There are exercises to complete and hypothetical scenarios to allow researchers to think about possible situations.

Researcher representative resources:

Four short standalone resources have been created, however these are also complementary to each other.  We advise researchers complete all resources and working through them in the following order:

We would value your feedback on these resources and whether you have found them useful for your representative role, or just for support in your research role.  If you have any comments please email: researcher.development@ed.ac.uk