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Realising your potential using the Researcher Development FrameworkDr Kate Mahoney, Vitae Midlands Hub Manager
Are you engaged in Professional Development Planning (PDP)?PDP is…“A structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development.”
Session objectives
To understand what the RDF is
To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students
To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF
How to align your current provision to the RDF
Session objectives
To understand what the RDF is
To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students
To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF
How to align your current provision to the RDF
What makes a successful researcher?What:
Knowledge
Skills
Qualities
Behaviours
would they exhibit?
Researcher Development Framework (RDF)
RDF is a framework for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, professional and career development of researchers
Session objectives
To understand what the RDF is
To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students
To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF
How to align your current provision to the RDF
Strengths of the RDF
For researchers
Common language
National consistency
International competitiveness
Independent resource
How the RDF can help your researchers
Personal and professional development Understand their strengths
Identify areas for development
Set goals
Career Development
I’ve always thought of myself as being quite ambitious, driven and focussed on what I want, but the framework made me
realise I can have a much larger visions.
It was very good for me to reflect. I realised that nothing is
stopping me but myself. The sky is the limit.
Think about staging the targets; what can I do
smarter, what training do I need to request and
what do I need someone else to facilitate so that I
can move forward
I now have a path that I would like to follow
I would see this [RDF] as a barometer...to give me a bit
more clarity about what areas I could develop and what might
be most important. It’s something I could keep
returning to
It put career development back into the forefront of my mind as it can often slip back when you’re
engaged in what you’re doing day to day.
The RDF “…identified areas for me that I needed to hone and really made me think about my career development. I’ve highlighted things now that I know I need to do.
What we’ve always tried to do with the postdocs [in Edinburgh] is say 'look this is your career and it’s your responsibility'.
Read it carefully and be honest about where you are. You don’t always have to aim for phase 5 - identify shorter term goals that are more achievable.
The RDF will encourage me to be more proactive about my career development as it provides me with a framework (list of milestones).
PDP cycleEviden
ce
Reflection
Identify needs
Review progres
s
“We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting
on experience”John Dewey
An example of what happens without reflection…
Session objectives
To understand what the RDF is
To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students
To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF
How to align your current provision to the RDF
Session objectives
To understand what the RDF is
To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students
To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF
How to align your current provision to the RDF
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