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Career Development
Resources to assist you with your own career development, whilst doing the PhD. Find useful tips on teaching during your research degree, developing leadership skills, and other academic knowhow. Start with the end in mind and develop yourself for your future career.
PGR Careers Report 2026
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Postgraduate research student career development in the UK |
Website | N/A | 🌐Postgraduate research student career development in the UK |
Career Decision Making and Identity
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| Career Decision Making | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Prosper Portal: Career Decision Making | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| Decision Making: Career Choices | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Prosper Portal: Decision Making: Career Choices | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| Growing your Self-Awareness and Career Identity | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Prosper Portal: Growing your Self-Awareness and Career Identity | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
Learning and Teaching Resources
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Academic Development Resources for Postdoctoral & Postgraduate Researchers who Teach |
Intranet Resources |
N/A |
🌐Webpage: Postgraduate or Postdoctoral Researchers - Academic Development - University of Liverpool |
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Foundations in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (FLTHE) |
Intranet Resources |
N/A |
🌐Webpage: PGR Student or Postdoc with limited teaching - Academic Development - University of Liverpool |
Leadership Resources
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Academy Leadership Resources for PGRs |
Microsoft Word Document |
191KB |
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Putting Together International Research Teams |
Microsoft Word Document |
199KB |
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Research Collaborations and their Impact on your Career |
Microsoft Word Document |
27KB |
Academic Know How
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Beginners Guide to UK Academia |
Website |
N/A | 🌐Webpage: Beginners Guide to UK Academia | |
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REF - Top Tips for PGRs |
Microsoft Word Document |
193KB | 📲REF - Top tips for PGRs | |
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TEF - Top Tips for PGRs |
Microsoft Word Document |
193KB | 📲TEF - Top tips for PGRs | |
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KEF - Top Tips for PGRs |
Microsoft Word Document |
184KB | 📲KEF - Top tips for PGRs | |
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Pursuing an Academic Career |
Prosper Portal Webpage |
N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Pursuing an Academic Career | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
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Handy information about the UK higher education sector |
Prosper Portal Webpage |
N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Institutional Resources - Boosting Career Development | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
Applying for Jobs
| Title | Document Type | Size | Download/Access | Notes |
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| Creating a Better CV | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Creating a Better CV | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| Interviews | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Interviews | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| Job Simulators | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Job Simulators | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| Welcome to InterSECT Job Simulations! | Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Welcome to InterSECT Job Simulations! | |
| Researchers Beyond Academia Practice | Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Researchers Beyond Academia Practice |
Entrepreneurship
| Title | Document Type | Size | Download/Access | Notes |
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| Starting a Business and Entrepreneurship | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Starting a Business and Entrepreneurship | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| Freelancing and Consultancy | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: Freelancing and Consultancy | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
| How to set up your own business | Prosper Portal Webpage | N/A | 🌐Webpage: Prosper Portal: How to set up your own business | Create a free Prosper profile to access this link. |
Further Resources
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🌐Prosper Portal: While aimed at Postdocs, Prosper’s free portal offers PGRs a range of useful resources to unlock your potential to thrive in multiple career pathways. |
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🌐UoL Career Coaches: Our Career Coaches are trained to help you explore your options, develop new skills, and to prepare for every stage of the recruitment process. |
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🌐Vitae: Empowering researchers to make an impact on their careers. |
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🌐ResearchComp: The European Competence Framework for Researchers. An external tool to assess and develop researchers' transferable skills and foster career development. |
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🌐DocPro: An external company that offers a professional profile of PhD-holders. |
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🌐Future Leaders Fellows Development Network: A UKRI funded network that provides Toolkits, a broad collection of resources related to developing your leadership skills and learning about the UK’s research and innovation environments. |
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🌐Research Careers: Explore Your Options Beyond Academia. A collection of profiles of people who have made the transition from academia to industry. |
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🌐EntreComp - The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework: The development of the entrepreneurial capacity of European citizens and organisations is one of the key policy objectives for the EU and Member States. |
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🌐EntreComp - The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework - A User Guide: This guide is a tool for those individuals and organisations who wish to explore why, when and how they can use EntreComp, the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework. |