Strategic career planning to help you emerge as a research leader

Competitive Fellowship applications need strong track record content.

That’s why we help you plan your career, aligned to your impact goals, for all your future applications.

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Our services:

We provide career planning programs for Early Career Researchers (late-stage PhD students or postdoctoral fellows) who want to strategically advance their research career.

Using our Empirical Elements framework, we help you plan out your career development, in line with your research and impact goals, to cultivate a strong track record for future applications.

The empirical elements framework:

Through this program, we will support you to define your research and career goals, understand your strengths, enhance your capability, consider appropriate leadership activities, and empower you to respond to opportunities.

After completing this program, researchers should be able to: 

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

  • Understand that teamwork makes the dream work! Define your talents and skills and consider who you need to surround yourself with to achieve your goals. Make plans for building a strong research environment.

  • Understand 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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Build the elements of your career path

Plan for your research funding and impact goals…