Being successful as a researcher requires you to think carefully and strategically about your skills, objectives and the areas in which you need to develop. Your university is likely to encourage, or even require, you to engage in processes like Training Needs Analysis and Personal Development Planning. These processes are designed to give you tools to examine where your development needs are and to help you to address these.
This section aims to help you to identify the training and development that is a key part of your role as a professional researcher. It contains sections on:
Engagement with personal and professional development should also relate to your longer-term career aspirations. Pursuing development opportunities can be useful both as a way of thinking through what you want to do long term and as a way of developing and evidencing the skills that you will need to move on.
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