Reports
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Research and analysis
Equality and Status of Women 2016
Career development perspective of UK researcher-business interactions. Depicting a landscape that is evolving and possibly on the point of step change
HR strategies for researchers: a review of the HR Excellence in Research Award implementation activities across Europe. Improvements in the management of researchers across Europe
Impact Framework 2012: Revisiting the Rugby Team Impact Framework. Drivers for measuring impact and evidence examples
UK experience surveys
Five Steps Forward launched at the Vitae Researcher Development Conference 2017, based on successive Careers in Research Online Surveys (CROS) and Principal Investigators & Research Leaders Surveys (PIRLS)
Careers in Research Online Survey: 2015 UK aggregate results. 8964 research staff from 72 institutions responded, a response rate of 28%
Principal Investigators and Research Leaders Survey: 2015 UK aggregate results. Analysis of 4316 responses from research leaders in 55 institutions, representing a response rate of 25%
Related:
PRES 2013: results from the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey
PTES 2013: findings from the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey
What do researchers do?
Our series of research publications exploring how highly-skilled doctoral graduates contribute to UK society, culture and economy.
Latest report in the series:
What do research staff do next? 2016 Explores for the first time the career paths of research staff (postdoctoral researcher, research fellow, etc.) who left research posts in European universities or research institutes to work in other occupations and employment sectors
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Concordat to support the career development of researchers
An agreement between the funders and employers of researcher in the UK
Concordat discussion paper 2016 for the first time the career paths of research staff (postdoctoral researcher, research fellow, etc.) who left research posts in European universities or research institutes to work in other occupations and employment sectors
Impact of Vitae
Working with researchers
Exploring the turning points in researchers’ lives. An approach to careers work called three scene storyboarding
Straight talking: the role of non-specialist advice and networking in career conversations for researchers. How researchers use their social capital to elicit careers advice
Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors. To help researchers and their supervisors to adopt social media tools to benefit their research
Coaching for research in UK higher education institutions a review. Examines the potential of coaching to support researcher performance and development
Understanding research staff associations and their impact, UKRSA 2011. Views from 25 research staff associations
