Career development and support for education focussed academics often lags behind that of researchers. This workshop will support bioscience educators at all career stages, by building a sustainable network around career support, promotion and award nominations.

We will share best practice and encourage attendees to link their work in improving student outcomes to their own career development. We will also establish an on-going career mentorship network; delegates are encouraged to become a mentor or mentee or both so that the workshop can have lasting impact.

The workshop will be co-delivered by Dr Katharine Hubbard (Hull), Dr Sue Jones (York St. John) and Dr David Smith (Sheffield Hallam), who have built successful education focussed careers. We have invited Prof Stella Jones-Devitt (Staffordshire) to lead a session on academic careers and effective mentorship; Prof Jones-Devitt has considerable experience with supporting education focussed academics and raising the profile of teaching and learning.

If you are not able to participate for the full day you are still encouraged to sign-up and participate where possible. Resources from the workshop and any session recordings will be circulated to all delegates.

10:00    Welcome, ice-breaker and aims of the workshop
10:30    Reflection on careers and goal identification
11:30    Break
11:45    Identifying and evidencing impact for promotion/fellowship applications
12:30    Lunch
13:15    Case studies of successful education-focussed careers and panel discussion
14:00    Mentorship training (facilitated Prof Stella Jones-Devitt)
15:00    Break
15:15    Action planning and setting career targets
15:45    Reflections and next steps
16:00    End

Who is this event for?

This event is for HUBS members only and will be of interest to those teaching in higher education.

Application details

You can apply for a place at this event through the link at the top of the page.

When applying, please include the following:

In the Other Requests box before completing your booking, please indicate whether you're interested in receiving mentorship or becomming a mentor, and include the following information:

For MENTEES - please indicate which goals you would *most* like to recieve on-going mentoring support for: [select multiple options]

• AFHEA
• FHEA
• SFHEA
• PFHEA
• Lecturer
• Senior Lecturer
• Reader
• Professor
• National Teaching Fellow
• RSB HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year
• I do not want to receive on-going mentoring support

For MENTORS - please indicate which goals you would be willing to provide mentoring for:

• AFHEA
• FHEA
• SFHEA
• PFHEA
• Lecturer
• Senior Lecturer
• Reader
• Professor
• National Teaching Fellow
• RSB HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year
• I do not want to act as a mentor
  

Contact

For any specific meeting queries, please contact Katharine Hubbard at K.Hubbard@hull.ac.uk
For any booking/application queries, please contact Matt Webb at hubs@rsb.org.uk