1. Realising your potential using the Researcher Development Framework Dr Kate Mahoney, Vitae Midlands Hub Manager

2. Are you engaged in Professional Development Planning (PDP)? PDP is… “A structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development.”

4. Session objectives To understand what the RDF is To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF How to align your current provision to the RDF

5. Session objectives To understand what the RDF is To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF How to align your current provision to the RDF

6. What makes a successful researcher? What: Knowledge Skills Qualities Behaviours would they exhibit?

8. Researcher Development Framework (RDF) RDF is a framework for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, professional and career development of researchers

9. www.vitae.ac.uk/rdf

15. Session objectives To understand what the RDF is To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF How to align your current provision to the RDF

17. Strengths of the RDF For researchers Common language National consistency International competitiveness Independent resource

18. How the RDF can help your researchers Personal and professional development Understand their strengths Identify areas for development Set goals Career Development

19. I’ve always thought of myself as being quite ambitious, driven and focussed on what I want, but the framework made me realise I can have a much larger visions. It was very good for me to reflect. I realised that nothing is stopping me but myself. The sky is the limit. Think about staging the targets; what can I do smarter, what training do I need to request and what do I need someone else to facilitate so that I can move forward I now have a path that I would like to follow I would see this [RDF] as a barometer...to give me a bit more clarity about what areas I could develop and what might be most important. It’s something I could keep returning to It put career development back into the forefront of my mind as it can often slip back when you’re engaged in what you’re doing day to day. The RDF “…identified areas for me that I needed to hone and really made me think about my career development. I’ve highlighted things now that I know I need to do. What we’ve always tried to do with the postdocs [in Edinburgh] is say 'look this is your career and it’s your responsibility'. Read it carefully and be honest about where you are. You don’t always have to aim for phase 5 - identify shorter term goals that are more achievable. The RDF will encourage me to be more proactive about my career development as it provides me with a framework (list of milestones).

22. PDP cycle Evidence Reflection Identify needs Review progress “We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience” John Dewey

25. An example of what happens without reflection…

37. www.vitae.ac.uk/rdf

38. Session objectives To understand what the RDF is To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF How to align your current provision to the RDF

42. Session objectives To understand what the RDF is To understand the usefulness of the RDF as a tool to develop your research students To know the benefits of aligning your own Researcher Development provision to the RDF How to align your current provision to the RDF

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