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Developing Future Leaders: A Mentor-Mentee Discussion

In conversation with Professor Bernie Morley and Professor Nathan Mayne.

 
The Future Leaders Fellows Development Network’s award-winning Leadership Mentoring Programme brings together established mentors with mentees in an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge. In this blog, we […]

Structuring a mentoring agreement process, Ideas, Concerns and Expectations

By Dr Kay Guccione, Mentoring Lead, and Head of Research Culture and Researcher Development at the University of Glasgow.

 
There are many models of structured conversation being used in the coaching and mentoring disciplines – perhaps […]

Interdisciplinary Mentoring: Collaboration and Sharing Best Practice

By Clare Barrie, Communications Officer, Future Leaders Fellows Development Network
In the realm of academic and professional growth, collaboration often serves as a catalyst for innovation. A great example of this principle is the recent collaboration […]

The role of networking and relationships in your policy engagement journey

 
By Helen Freeman, Policy Engagement Manager
Our 2023 monthly policy events ‘Research and Public Policy: Increasing Impact with Professor Graeme Reid’ had a fantastic grand finale in Belfast this May. This five-part series of in-person events, […]

Next Generation Research Podcast

By Clare Barrie, Future Leaders Fellows Development Network, Communications Officer

 
UKRI Future Leaders Fellows Oliver Mytton and Laura Carter are launching their brand-new podcast series, Next Generation Research. The pilot podcast series was created to share […]

The importance of understanding our Fellows

By Katie Nicoll Baines, FLFDN Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

The FLFDN provides a comprehensive leadership development programme for its members. To enable us to do this more insightfully we are launching a survey to […]

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 […]