New postdoc Induction
Practical information
- Audience: Postdocs and research staff at Queen's
- Date and time: Wednesday 22 January 2025 (13:30 - 16:30) - Inductions are organised approximately every 2 months and new dates will be added once the current planned session has taken place.
- Length: 3 h
- Place: R&E Seminar Room, First Floor, 63 University Road
- Organised by: PDC
Content
Starting a new research position can be unsettling. Whether you are new to Queen's, new to the UK or new to being a postdoc or research staff, this session should help you to better understand your environment, your role and the support available to you. With postdoc positions being fixed-term positions, we'll also discuss career planning and help you to set goals to progress your career, whatever this means to you.
This session is mainly an information session but also includes interactive elements and networking.
Programme Objectives
The main objectives of the session are to help you make the best of your time at Queen's by:
- Helping you understand your environment: Queen's structure, the UK funding landscape, sector drivers supporting your professional development...
- Helping you understand your role and get good working habits
- Highlighting the support available to you from the PDC and other departments
- Providing tips on planning your career
- Setting a few personal goals to ensure this position will add value to your CV
- Answer your questions
- Enable networking between participants
Registration
Facilitator
Dr Lisa Douglas | PDC Officer
Lisa joined the PDC in August 2024 and oversees the development and delivery of researcher development opportunities, training, events and guidance, ensuring these initiatives meet the needs of the postdoctoral researcher community at QUB. She also actively engages with the postdoctoral community through one-on-one support and collaborates with and supports the PDC Representatives’ Network and Postdoc Society. She was previously a postdoc at QUB herself; working in the School of Pharmacy where her research focused on novel therapeutic approaches for chronic airways disease.
During her time as a postdoctoral researcher, Lisa benefited from numerous development opportunities organised by the PDC and more broadly at Queen’s. She therefore has firsthand experience of the advantages these opportunities offered and how they helped shape her career. Lisa is passionate about aiding other postdoctoral researchers in their personal and professional development and has a special interest in enhancing and supporting researcher wellbeing and contributing to a positive, welcoming and inclusive research culture at Queen’s.
Feedback
The feedback provided here corresponds to the first session held since the launch of the PDC in October 2021 (in March 2022). It took place online.
Rating (out of 5): 5
Recommended by: 100%
Number of feedback provided: 7
Quote: "Very informative and really engaging. Both Alice and Erin seem very approachable." (Participant, 2022)