Academic Careers
Co-chairs: Keith Couper and Adele Kenny
Aims
- To ensure opportunities for academic career training and development are available to all staff at all stages of their career
- To identify and address barriers to the uptake of academic career training and development opportunities
- To increase the visibility of academic career resources and opportunities
- To demonstrate collegiality, integrity, fairness and respect within an environment that is both supportive and challenging
Activities/ Achievements
- Highly Commended for the Excellence in Gender Equality Team Award 2022.
- Ongoing tracking of data from Athena Swan surveys, HR teams and other sources to support early identification of success or concerns.
- Hosting of targeted workshops to support career development (e.g. promotions, barriers to an academic career, getting started with professional registration with Advance HEE, time to focus on me).
- Support of Beacon Internships that up-skill researchers from under-represented communities.
- Ongoing promotion and signposting to resources (e.g. mentoring, shadowing, career support networks, training) from WMS newsletters and across Research Culture webpages, and through partner groups.
- Development of information about new starters in newsletters and on Athena SWAN webpages to showcase our diverse community.
Future Plans
- To continue to explore the challenges of fixed-term contracts.
- Promote resources to support individuals at all stages of their career.
- To align with central University induction and exit processes