Resources for all career stages
Careers in research look different for everyone. Your career journey might not be linear, and your professional development needs will be individual to you.
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Whether you are brand new to research, looking to develop and progress, or you are a research leader, our resources are designed to help you. You can search or browse our resources by topic and career stage.
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Start with you
Our resources focused on you and your development will help you get started with professional development and career planning, and will help you develop the key personal and professional attributes needed for careers in research.
Get started with professional development
Get started: Take our short online course on professional development planning
Read our resources on managing and planning your career
Explore career pathways
Explore the different career pathways available within research.
Be inspired by our library of research career stories.
Support job applications by looking at CV examples
Develop key attributes
Explore our resources related to developing the key attributes required for careers in research.
Our resources are mapped to the Vitae Researcher Development Framework.
Skills for doing research
Careers in research require the development of a range of practical skills related to the research itself, its management, and its outputs and impact.
Our resources can help you focus on developing the valuable skills needed to progress in your career.
Working in research
Our guides are full of practical information and tips to help you make decisions, whatever your current career stage.
Should I do a doctorate?
Information to help you decide whether a research degree is right for you.
Doctoral research
Resources to help guide you whether you have just started in doctoral research, are part way through, or are nearing the end.
Supervising a doctorate
Information for those who have taken on responsibility for supervising postgraduate research students or are looking ahead to doing so.
Leading research and researchers
Information for those taking on leadership roles within research including principal investigators and managers of researchers.
Being part of a research community
Developing the skills to work with a wide range of people, communities and collaborators can be key to navigating a career in research.
The Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF)
The framework describes the knowledge, behaviour and attributes of successful researchers.
The Vitae Researcher Development Framework
Using our resources as a Researcher Developer
Our resources are designed to be used by those who support researcher development as part of their roles. You might use the resources by:
- Linking to specific resources in your training and learning materials
- Using the Vitae RDF or Vitae RDF planner with your researchers
- Signposting resources to researchers
