Dr Kathy Barrett is the University Lead on Research Staff Development at King’s College London; and Dr Rachel Cowen is the University Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Manchester. Voices are becoming ever louder across the research sector, raising concerns about our highly competitive environment in which career structures and outcomes can be increasingly precarious and unpredictable. We witness the pressures on academics and on research staff that con

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