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Routes to Commercialisation

By Sharon M Young, FLFDN Innovation Manager
Are you interested in understanding more about commercialising research and connecting with like-minded colleagues?

 
We have partnered with the team behind the highly successful ICURe programme, Innovation-to-Commercialisation of University Research, […]

Resilience, Response & Recycling

Dr Sara Shinton

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This blog summarises some of the content from our Resilience, Response & Recycling session run by Sara Shinton, FLF Director and John Morison, Professor of Jurisprudence at […]

Using a 360-perspective policy-messaging approach to maximise awareness, interest and action!

2023 continues with a strong policy theme with our monthly events ‘Research and Public Policy: Increasing Impact with Professor Graeme Reid’. This five-part series of in-person events, taking place around the UK, gives fellows access […]

Unpicking the translational journey: a multidisciplinary reflection on driving best-practice innovation culture

By Future Leaders Fellows, Dr Sophie Cox (Associate Professor, University of Birmingham), Dr Yueting Sun (Lecturer, University of Birmingham), Dr Obinna Ubah (Principal scientist and Program Lead, Elasmogen Limited), Prof Mohsen Rahmani (Nottingham Trent University) […]

From research evidence to policy change; the long and winding road

 
By Sara Shinton, Barry Smith, Helen Freeman and Katie Nicoll Baines
2023 has started with a strong policy theme with two events in our Research and Public Policy strand with Professor Graeme Reid (Research and Public […]

Connect with FLFDN’s specialist Managers

On top of Leadership development programmes and events, The Future Leaders Fellows Development Network has a team of Managers in specialist areas on hand to support FLFs navigating their fellowship. The team has grown to […]

Inclusive Research and Innovation Design

By Katie Nicoll Baines, FLFDN Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager and Cheryl Hewer, UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

At the 2021 FLF Annual Conference, the FLF Development Network collaborated with colleagues at UKRI to hold […]

The Network’s new PATHWAYS Programme

The Future Leaders Fellows Development Network is a programme designed to support the professional development of Future Leaders Fellows. The Network delivers specialised leadership training, access to networks and mentors, and collaborative opportunities, so that […]

Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Peer Review

By Sara Shinton, Director, Future Leaders Fellows Development Network
Interdisciplinary research (IDR) runs through the UK’s research and innovation strategy, but close to a century after the term was first used we are still struggling as […]

Fellow Feature: Dr Noemi Procopio

 
In our first Fellow Feature we spoke to Dr Noemi Procopio about her research and discussed her experience of being part of the Future Leaders Fellows Development Network.
Dr Noemi Procopio is a Senior Research Fellow […]

Anti-bullying Week 2022: Active Bystander Training

By Katie Nicoll Baines

Knowing how to intervene when you witness someone being bullied or harassed can feel like an impossible task. The fear that you will say the wrong thing and make an already tense […]

Taking a people-matched mentoring approach

By Kay Guccione and Charlotte Bonner-Evans, the Future Leaders Fellows Development Network Mentoring Team.

For National Mentoring Day 2022, we wanted to share a bit about how we ensure such a high success rate for […]