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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 sessions […]

The Network’s new PATHWAY 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 […]

People-matched Mentoring with Professor Claire Gorrara and Dr Sarah Inskip

By Professor Claire Gorrara and Dr Sarah Inskip

The Future Leaders Fellows Development Network’s Leadership Mentoring Programme has a unique and considered matching process. Fellows are hand-matched with expert mentors through a ‘people-match’ approach. This allows […]

The positives of peer group mentoring

By Charlotte Bonner-Evans, Mentoring Partnership Manager

Researchers and innovators face many distinct challenges, stemming from research projects, managing interdisciplinary teams, working with people across different organisational cultures, not to mention how busy everyone is, and the […]

Research Encounters: Reflections on building collaborations (Samantha Aspinall)

Our recent Research Encounter offered a rare opportunity to hear from three leading figures reflecting on their experience of collaboration and boundary pushing. They were:

The Right Honourable Helen Clark, formerly Prime Minister of New Zealand […]

Research Encounters 2: Building Collaborations

Our second Research Encounters event, on the theme of Building Collaborations, is now just under a week away. We have lined up an exceptional panel with the Rt Hon Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of […]

What does impactful leadership look like? (Dr Tracey Stead)

“A leader is someone, anyone, who takes responsibility for finding potential in people and processes, and having the courage to develop that potential.” – Brene Brown
 
The Research and Development People and Culture Strategy published by […]

Mentoring and giving feedback: Is your feedback missing the mark?

By Dr Kay Guccione, Head of Researcher Development at the University of Glasgow, and FLF+ Network Mentoring Specialist.
This blog is part of a series written for our FLF+ Network Leadership Mentors, and is provided open […]