Are you ready to emerge as a research leader?

Emerge is our flagship program. It’s designed to establish the foundations and track record you need to make your impact.

Our Emerge Program aims to support Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to implement a career development strategy in line with their research and impact goals.

Using our Empirical Elements Framework, we will help you cultivate the track record you need to achieve your research funding and promotion goals.

Learn how to maximise your career opportunities

This program is suitable for late-stage PhD students or new Postdoctoral researchers who want to advance their research career.

This is targeted to those looking to establish a strong track record for Fellowship applications, or have recently been awarded their first fellowship and want to plan a strategy to maximise their opportunities.

Your outcomes

Through this program, we will support you to define your unique strengths, enhance your capability, consider appropriate leadership activities, and empower you to respond to serendipitous opportunities.

After completing this program, researchers should be able to: 

  • Understand the expectations, and competition, at their career stage across your field, organisation and/or profession and evaluate your current standing.

  • Recognise the “type” of researcher you are, create clarity around your research and broader career goals and determine the metrics you need to demonstrate success.

  • Understand the concept of research impact, describe the key stages in research translation and begin to map out your own research impact pathway.

  • Describe the various ways you can fund your research, consider how to expand your research program, and develop an appropriate funding plan/calendar for your work.

  • Understand that teamwork makes the dream work! Define your personal talents and skills and consider who you need to surround yourself with to achieve your goals.

  • Be aware of the broader environment around you, who your most important stakeholders are and create a plan to engage with them.

  • Be aware of the potential leadership roles/activities you could take on, consider how these fit with your research and career goals, so that your empowered to accept or reject opportunities as they arise.

  • Confidently promote yourself with a tailored profile and the right outputs for the right people, to advance your career.

Build the foundations to reach your goals

Set yourself up in the best way possible for research funding success, promotions and the path to future opportunities…