This is a guest post by Dr Sara Shinton, Head of Researcher Development, University of Edinburgh. and Dr Rachel Cowen, Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Manchester. For the UK to retain its world leading position in research and innovation we need to develop, nurture and reward our present and future research leaders. We must do this in a way that helps them respond to the challenges and demands of their role. They have a critical role to play, and nee

This is a guest post by Dr Kay Guccione, from the University of Sheffield. It details the rationale for Sheffield’s Associate SuperVisionaries Framework designed to support supervisory practice development in early career researchers. Kay also edits a blog related to doctoral supervision practice, which can be found here. Institutional and sector pressures on the doctorate, on doctoral supervision, and on academic practice, have increased in recent years, and supervision is j

Dr Karen Clegg is Head of Research Excellence Training at the University of York and is a member of Researchers14 but is writing in a personal capacity as someone who has devoted the best part of 15 years to researcher development. Once upon a time, researchers in universities and research organisations were like the squires of old; expected to support the knight to whom they were affiliated and take on any duties asked of them as part of their apprenticeship. Once their know