Kay Guccione from the University of Sheffield will present the CSHE Research Seminar on ‘More than lucky? Exploring self-leadership in the development and articulation of research independence’.

The seminar will take place on Thursday 16 March 2017,16.30-17.30 in the UELT Seminar Room (Canterbury Campus)

The stories of research fellowships that the researcher community tells can sometimes become barriers to academic career aspirations. Fellowship award success is often largely attributed to luck, both by award holders themselves and also by aspiring fellows. However, it is unlikely that success is due to luck alone.

This seminar presents findings from a research study designed to enquire into early career researcher experiences of gaining a research fellowship award within UK academic career pathways by collecting and comparing twenty-five “fellowship stories” that ask about the decisions, actions, tensions, and agency of early career researchers. The five areas of active self-development that were identified in the data, will be discussed, as we ask ourselves what can we as academics, mentors, PIs and policy makers do to help our researchers succeed?

To confirm your attendance at this event please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk