Networking: making it work for you
Prosper team members, Katie McAllister and Joanie Magill, take a look at the value of networking and how to do it well. \n\nUniversity of Liverpool staff can also explore this further through supporting content and resources on the Prosper portal linked throughout this piece.
Posted on: 17 August 2020
Co-creating Prosper with employers
Co-creating Prosper with employers – why it matters, how we’re doing it and what we’ve learnt so far.\n\nProsper's Stakeholder Engagaement Manager, Katie McAllister, takes a look at the importance of co-creating our model with employer partners and what we've learnt so far about their needs and priorities.
Posted on: 18 June 2020
Self-assessment tools: Knowing me, knowing what to do
TL:DR Life is too short to try out every career you could possibly do, so how to narrow it down? Use self-assessment tools to help you clarify what you are both good at and like doing. Self-assessment tools are used across the board, both within and beyond academia.
Posted on: 18 June 2020
Myth-busting careers beyond academia – challenging assumptions and preconceptions
We've come across a range of preconceptions about work beyond academia. Read on to seperate fact from fiction.
Posted on: 18 June 2020
Who’s who? Profiling the UK postdoc population
In our latest blog, Prosper's Evaluation Researcher, Dr Peny (Panagiota) Sotiropoulou, dives into the data and looks at what it can tell us about the UK postdoc population.
Posted on: 27 May 2020
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What is a postdoc? part 2
Following part 1, in this piece we take a closer look at the skills, personality traits and outlook of postdocs.
Posted on: 13 May 2020
Why Prosper?
In our second blog, Prosper’s Senior Project Manager, Lucy Williams and Communications Manager, Catherine Kennedy take look at the project's wider context and why it's needed now more than ever.
Posted on: 27 April 2020
What is a postdoc? part 1
Since Prosper began, we've often found ourselves facing the question 'so what is a postdoc?' Our Research Staff Developers, Dr Catherine Charlwood and Dr Fiona McBride, look at defining the term and what it means in relation to Prosper.
Posted on: 27 April 2020
State of play: understanding the current postdoc career development experience
In our first blog, Prosper’s Research Staff Developers, Dr Catherine Charlwood and Dr Fiona McBride, discuss the findings of our initial focus groups with postdoctoral researchers and Principal Investigators.
Posted on: 20 February 2020
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Networking: making it work for you
Prosper team members, Katie McAllister and Joanie Magill, take a look at the value of networking and how to do it well. University of Liverpool staff can also explore this further through supporting content and resources on the Prosper portal linked throughout this piece.
Posted on: 17 August 2020