Personal effectiveness
Maximise your personal effectiveness as a researcher by developing knowledge and skills that will bring rewards whatever your future career. Links to related advice and resources in this section and to similar content from around the site.
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Personal Qualities
Development advice and examples:
Self-management
Quick tips:
Staying happy during your doctorate
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance
Development advice and examples:
Professional and career development
Quick tips:
Create an action plan for your career development
Development advice and examples:
Take advantage of opportunities
Also:
The benefits of internships and professional placements for researchers
More for researchers
Manage your career with the Vitae RDF Planner online app
From doing a doctorate:
Schedule for Success: our popular downloadable wallplanner
Supporting researchers' professional development?
Part-time researcher course: includes planning to manage your time
Supervising a doctorate. Including keeping researchers on track
Project management essentials session: facilitator guide and presentation
Time management session: facilitator guide and presentation
Coaching and mentoring schemes for researchers
Career stories : how researchers have managed their research and careers. Over 150 stories
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Quick Tips for researchers : bitesize advice
Professional development advice sheets : covers all 63 professional development areas from the Vitae Researcher Development Framework
Action and evidence examples: inspiration when you want to set actions for professional development or demonstrate your progress
