Squiggly careers and your options

What you'll do
The purpose of this workshop for research staff, is to enhance your confidence in managing your career in response to all events, planned and unplanned, and to respond to your own needs as your professional motivations and personal priorities change through life. Participants will learn how to navigate squiggly careers by applying their research skills and creativity to ask helpful questions, gather data to inform decision-making, cope with uncertainty, and adapt to the unexpected.

Who it's for
Research staff and teaching staff on fixed term contracts and academic staff on open-ended contracts with review dates (OERD).
This session is not open to academic staff on open-ended lecturing contracts.

Why attend
This workshop is designed to support research staff in managing change across their careers and responding to shifts in their professional motivations and personal priorities over time.

After this session, you'll be able to:

• feel more confident in managing your career through planned and unplanned events
• apply your research skills and creativity to career decision-making
• ask helpful questions and gather information to inform your decisions
• cope with uncertainty and adapt to unexpected change

This session is facilitated by Darcey Gillie.