Bryony Portsmouth is the Researcher Development Lead at the University of Sheffield and is a member of Researchers14. My tenure in researcher development is 6 years. On day one of my induction in November 2012, I was handed a hard copy of the ‘Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers’ (now affectionately known simply as ‘the Concordat’) and was told that the document would underpin everything I did. As was alluded to in our previous blog post, authored by Dr