Researcher Development Specialist - PGR

Please note this vacancy is open to current University of Glasgow employees only.

Researcher Development Specialist (PGR)

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Research Culture & Researcher Development portfolio within the University’s central Research Services Directorate. The Researcher Development Team sits within the Research Culture & Researcher Development portfolio and is an inter-disciplinary education-focused team that supports over 6000 researchers including all the University’s postgraduate researchers, research staff, and academic leaders. Researcher Development encompasses a broad spectrum of activities and events which are designed to enrich researchers’ skills and working relationships, foster their talents, and accelerate their professional prospects.

At the University of Glasgow, we believe that research thrives when researchers feel that they are part of a stimulating, fair, and inclusive environment in which colleagues help each other to succeed. Implementation of the 2019 Concordat for the Career Development of Researchers (which supports Research Staff) is one strand in the University’s wider Research Culture Action Plan.

The Researcher Development Team sits within the Research Culture & Researcher Development portfolio and is an inter-disciplinary education-focused team that supports over 6000 total researchers including all the University’s postgraduate researchers, research staff, and academic leaders, under six priority themes. Researcher Development encompasses a broad spectrum of activities and events which are designed to enrich researchers’ skills and working relationships, foster their talents, and accelerate their professional prospects.

The University of Glasgow has over ~1300 research-only staff and this post, aims to bring about a step-change in making the University of Glasgow the best place to develop a research career, through delivery of strategic projects across the institution.

Across Research & Innovation Services we work in partnership with the Vice Principal (Research & Knowledge Exchange) and Vice Principal (Economic Development & Innovation), with colleagues in other central services and the research leadership teams, researchers and professional staff in each of Glasgow’s four academic Colleges and University Centres. Our activity is informed by the University research and innovation strategies.

Within the Research Services Directorate we take a collaborative approach, working together across the areas of research culture and researcher development, in research impact, knowledge exchange, communications and engagement, in research governance, policy and integrity and in strategic research development. These areas of focus are enhanced through the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) which provides a unique creative and collaborative space to bring people together.

We also work closely with the Innovation & Engagement Directorate to ensure that the full spectrum of research is supported and enabled.

The post holder will work collaboratively with people across the university and externally in line with the Glasgow Professional Behavioural Framework, and the University of Glasgow Values.

Job Purpose

The postholder will lead on the delivery of an established strategic framework of initiatives to support postgraduate researcher education and development, as well as designing, piloting, evaluating and embedding new initiatives focused on creating positive culture change.

Main Duties and Responsibilities