Transcript What the Faculty can do to help (Prof Deborah Henderson, April 2016)

Fellowships event
20.4.16
What the faculty can do to help
Prof. Deborah Henderson
Dean of Research
2010
Awareness is
key to effective
career planning
PhD
award
Career planning is essential at all
stages
Career pathways scheme - FMS
• 3 routes
– Fellowship
– Research associate (includes team
scientist/research support officer
– Alternative career
• Research, not in HE
• Not research, in HE
• Not research, not in HE
• Crucial to support all of these routes
More information on the SDU website - Career Pathways Framework
and the Faculty intranet: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical/research/support/
Career pathways scheme 2015
3
9
months months
Induction
Careers
workshop
2
years
Fellowship
route
Academic
position
Career
planning
workshop/
PDR
Career
researcher
PDR
Alternative career outside academia
CPS interventions
• Induction (3 months after taking up RA post)
• Careers Awareness workshop (9 months after taking
up RA post *)
Goal is to encourage new ECR to consider all the possibilities that are open to
them now that they have a PhD, in terms of skills development (technical and
generic) and potential careers
• Careers Planning workshop (2 years after taking up
RA post *)
Goal is for the participants to take a realistic view of their current position,
likely trajectory and the steps they will need to take in order to achieve career
success
• Follow up careers support on an individualised basis
• PDR (annually) – this is an essential component of
the process
• SDU Open Programme
Strategic goal
Build a strong research base of early career
researchers within the FMS that will go on
to become the research leaders of the
future
Need to start planning early – ideally during
PhD or soon after
How will we achieve this?
• Recruit the best ECR into the Faculty
• Mentor and support our best ECR
• Increase the numbers of externally funded
fellows in the FMS
– Ensure that the best possible fellowship applications
are submitted
– Fund small number of highest caliber researchers in
order to assist them in preparation of fellowship
applications
– Track fellowship applications and outcomes
Newcastle University Research
Fellowships and Faculty Fellowships
• Goal is to develop the research leaders of the
future
• Support ECR into independent research
careers
• Increase our numbers of external fellowships
and personal investigator awards (at all levels)
How does it work?
• Flexible scheme for all career stages
• Internal and external applicants encouraged
• 3 main entry points corresponding to major
external fellowship schemes
• Awareness of different types of research carried
out in the faculty
• Takes account of career breaks
• Flexible working possible
• One-two rounds of recruitment each year
(Spring/Autumn)
Newcastle University Research Fellowship Scheme
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Senior
academic
positions
Potential award time
Most likely award time
Indicative running time
Career progression
Open ended academic contract
Senior Fellowship/NIRG/project grants
EXTERNAL SCHEMES
Career development Fellowship/NIRG
Junior Fellowship
PhD
Eligibility for 5 year fixed-term NURF*
Flexible fellowship opportunities available from 6m to 4yrs
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEME
Y3 PhD
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
*The 5 year fixed term NURF is the equivalent in status to a career development fellowship/New investigator research grant award and is
subject to a progress review 18 months prior to end of contract.
Aug 2014
External Fellowship Schemes
BBSRC
Anniversary Future Leader Fellowship
BHF
3 (+1) years
Most likely award time
Duration of Award
5 years
David Phillips/ECR Fellowships
3 years
Snr Research Fellowship
4 (+1) years
Int Basic Sci Res Fell
Immediate Postdoc Basic Science Research Fellowship
5 (+5) years
6 years
Snr Non-Clinical Fell
CRUK
Career Development Fellowship
Kay Kendall
Int Res Fellowship
Jnr Research Fellowship
3 years
Marie Curie
International Outgoing
International Incoming/Intra-European
MRC
6 years
4 years
3 years
2 years
New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG)
Snr Non-Clinical Fell
Career Dev Awards
5 years
David Sainsbury Fellowship
NC3Rs
3 years
University Research Fellowship
Royal Society
Wellcome Trust
1
3+ years
7 years
5 years
Senior Research Fellowship
5 (+3) years
Sir Henry Dale Fellowship
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
4 years
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
5+ years
10
11
12
What the FMS fellowships schemes offer
• Tailored financial support - can include salary,
consumables, equipment, studentships
(depending on level of experience and award
type)
• Advice and support for applications
• High quality mentorship
• Clear expectations about what is expected and
how achieve an open-ended contract
How many so far (since 2013)?
• 20 faculty fellowships
• 24 IRES/NURF fellowships
• Total cost> £9M
Several faculty fellowships have already led to
external fellowships
• Is an ongoing process
Grant writing support
• Specialised advice from expert in biomedical
science funding (Dr Gwen Averley – Research
Funding Development Manager)
• Tailored advice from experienced
researcher(s) with experience in your funder
of interest
• Review of application from experienced
researchers outside your own team
• Pre-interview practice
Mentorship
• All fellows and other early career researchers
who are planning to submit external
applications given a mentor
– Objective advice about career planning
– Advice about CV and readiness for fellowships
– Review of fellowship applications
– Pre-interview practice
– Post-result assessment
• Continues after fellowship awarded
Application process and time scale for external fellowships – science
-6m
-5m
RA approaches and talks with PI (advisor) about interest
in fellowship and possible project
Referral to Institute FFG-S representative – discussion
about suitability, readiness and possible schemes
RA works on CV – primarily publications
RA starts to work on application with support from
advisor and mentor
RA Notifies the faculty for tracking
[email protected]
Contacts Gwen Averley for advice and guidance about
specific schemes ([email protected])
-4m
-3m
Iterations of application with local peer review and
mentor review (may include DOI)
Mentor allocated – meeting arranged
Contacts Institute Research Support Officer re. costings
-2m
-1m
Signed off by Associate Dean of Research
Checks by RSO and JRO
- 7d
-2d
Contacts DOI re. commitment as sponsor
Signed off and submitted by DoI
Notify [email protected] of outcome
Mock interviews organised by advisor and mentor
Debrief with advisor and mentor
Pass feedback from application and interview back to
FFG-S (via [email protected]
)
Who should you speak to?
• Have an ECR working group in the faculty
• Members from each institute
ICM – Simi Ali, Cat Hilkens
IGM – Helen Arthur, Gavin Hudson
ICaMB – Caroline Austin, Kevin Waldron, Paula
Salgado
NICR – Craig Robson, Steve Clifford, Lisa Russell
ION – Melissa Bateson, Zosia ChrzanowskaLightowlers
IHS – Judith Rankin, Falko Sniehotta
DS – John Taylor
• First port of call for discussions about fellowships
Take home messages
• Career planning is essential at all stages
• Many opportunities within the FMS
• Fellowship schemes to support our best
researchers into independent academic
positions
• Institute led advice on planning
fellowships
QUESTIONS?
[email protected]