The Vitae is inviting proposals for workshops or special interest sessions for the 2014 Vitae Researcher Development International Conference.
The deadline for all workshop submissions is Monday 16 June.
The event is being held on the 9-10 September in Manchester and the workshops will cover:
- New approaches to enabling researchers to reach their potential and make powerful career choices
- Working with PIs and supervisors to transform everyday conversations into those that further professional development and embed training and development in the research environment
- Case studies and examples that mainstream equality and diversity for research careers and the research environment
- Developing a pipeline of research talent, including widening participation issues and the strategies to attract the best candidates into research degree
- Leadership development for researchers
- Researcher development and researcher careers evaluation and impact studies to further our understanding and knowledge of the researcher landscape
- New and interesting ways of supporting mobility – international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary
- Researcher development within the cohort model: practice sharing from doctoral training centres/partnership and other cohort based models (e.g. ITNs)
- Researchers’ development across boundaries: learning from international collaborations and exploring intercultural competence
To find out more and propose a workshop, please go to http://goo.gl/lInshQ
