Researcher Development Programme

Facilitating knowledge generation and exchange

Our Researcher Development Programme provides specialist interdisciplinary training for researchers - from doctoral to Professorial - across the university. We aspire to researcher development excellence to foster a vibrant, dynamic and intersectional research culture to maximise your researchpotential.

Connecting technical expertise across the university

Our university-wide programme is delivered in collaboration with academic and professional services colleagues to connect specialist and technical research expertise across BCU. Organised around ‘Researchers and Research Communities’ and ‘Research Knowledge and Skills’, our provision supports you in areas from research career development to undertaking high quality research.

Responding to the needs of researchers

Mapped against Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework, our provision explicitly meets external sector concordats as well as adopting a flexible approach to respond to the needs of researchers. The core programme is augmented by, and connected with, local-level provision from academics in disciplinary units or areas to bolster support enabled through subject specialist knowledge and community.

Our researcher development ethos

Collaboration

Working in partnership with academics and professional services, and collaborating across disciplines, to facilitate knowledge exchange.
Connectivity

Linking researchers, research, research expertise and good practice across the university through connected provision.
Accessibility

Making provision and communities of practice across the university visible and reachable through a transparent and equitable approach.
Inclusivity

Supporting all researchers, at all stages, across all disciplines at BCU, acknowledging and celebrating difference in research.