Development
A postdoctoral position provides valuable opportunities to develop both your research expertise and the wider skills needed for long-term career success.
Postdocs at Queen's University Belfast are entitled to 10 Career Development Days per year for professional and career development activities.
Your development framework
A range of frameworks categorise the skills of researchers and other professionals. Using them to reflect on your own skills can help you identify your strengths and areas you wish to develop further.
At the PDC, we are providing resources based on six general skills themes:
- Methodologies and practices
- Research dissemination
- Impact and partnerships
- Leadership and vision
- Teaching and supervision
- Career development
These themes are linked together and some resources are relevant to several of them. For example, communication skills are highly associated to research dissemination, but they also apply to teaching, leadership etc.
Other more detailed frameworks of interest are:
- The Researcher Development Framework from Vitae
- The Early Career Researcher Transferable Skills and Competencies from Eurodoc
- The NPA Core competencies from the US National Postdoc Association
- The Leadership and management framework from Queen's
