Concordat to support the career development of researchers 

Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network 

Research Team Leadership

 

• Target group: Mainly senior and some middle managers
• Dates and Times:
• Day 1: Tuesday 12 April 2011, 0930hrs - 1600hrs
• Day 2: Wednesday 4 May 2011, 1330hrs - 1600hrs 
• Venue: LSHTM
• Course Leader: Dr Tom Kennie, Ranmore Consulting
• Cost: £450
• Booking: Book Online

Whilst principally aimed at senior staff (people who have, or are soon to have, significant management responsibilities such as Heads of Department and Heads of Research/Consultancy Programmes, Projects or Centres), other staff who would benefit from exploring the role of principal investigator and senior researcher in terms of leadership may wish to apply.

The overall objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for the sharing of good practice and to encourage the development of the skills required to lead and manage national and international research projects. More specifically the programme aims to explore issues such as:
- The nature of leadership and management in a highly focussed research environment;
- The role of the principal investigator and senior researcher as project leader;
- How to deal with challenging people and leadership issues, again in a research based context (including the challenges of remote management);
- How to support very high performers;
- How to better understand the team dynamics which occur in a research team and how to gain further self insight to enable these to be addressed;
- How to better manage relations with partner bodies involved in major collaborative research projects.

As a follow-up to this programme a half-day Facilitated Discussion has been arranged for delegates to revisit and review some of the key themes emerging from the main workshop (4 May 2011).  The group will decide at the end of the Research Team Leadership workshop which aspects of the “leadership agenda” they would like to consider and review further, and these will be made the main areas for the follow-up session.  Delegates may be recommended some reading or other references to look through between the sessions.

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