Career Coaching (Online)

These ONLINE sessions are available to PGRs and early career research staff (i.e., research assistants, postdoctoral researchers, early career research fellows, research technicians) from the University of Liverpool. When registering for this event please ensure you use your University email address as non-University email registrations will be removed due to capacity restrictions, thank you.

Please note, only one booking per person is available for 1:1 Career Coaching (either online or in-person). Duplicate bookings will be deleted.

Joining details will be sent 2 days and 2 hours before the session begins to the email address you registered with.

These career coaching sessions will be delivered by experience career coaching experts who can support your career development needs.

The services available on this session include:

• Discussion of career plans.
• Helping identify future career options.
• Giving you an understanding of yourself from a career and work perspective.
• Personal feedback on written applications (CVs, covering letters or application forms).
• Practice interviews / interview preparation.

Session outline/ plan:

By the end of this session, participants may have recieved support in:

• Strategic Career Planning
• Defining their next step, or career change or move
• Actionable feedback in CV/Applications

Presenter information:

Career Coach Names:

Alys Kay (she/her)

Alys is a career coach, and facilitator with over 10 years of experience in HE. Using a people-centered approach to problem solving, she has helped hundreds of individuals, groups and organisations meet their goals and better serve their stakeholders.

Denise Chilton (she/her)

Denise Chilton is a career coach and leadership development facilitator. She has been supporting researchers and the academic community at the University of Liverpool for over 10 years so knows only too well the challenges faced by researchers.

A career coach on the Prosper pilot, she has been providing group and individual coaching programmes for postdocs and Early Career Academics since 2015 helping them to feel more confident, better manage their time, be more productive and develop their interpersonal skills.

In 2017, she won the Northern Power Woman Mentor of the Year Award for her work supporting women in STEM. She has worked with Faculties across the University delivering initiatives that have supported the Athena Swan Charter.

Elizabeth Adams (she/her)

Elizabeth is a coach and consultant with over 15 years' experience in researcher development. Her main focus is on academic leadership / career coaching and research culture. She has also worked as an innovation consultant, brokering partnerships between large engineering companies and SMEs or researchers, and as an analytical chemist in the Pharma industry.

Elizabeth brings a strong understanding of how support and interventions at individual, team and organisational level can help to embed a culture of creativity, innovation and collaboration, where people can grow and develop.

Pre-work required:

Read over the relevant resources on these pages: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers/career-management-for-researchers  

If you would like feedback on a CV – please send a copy 48 hours before the Careers Consultation .

The Researcher Development Framework (RDF) attributes developed during this session are relevant to the following sub-domains:

Domain A: Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities

A1: Knowledge base

A2: Cognitive Abilities

A3: Creativity

Domain B: Personal Effectiveness

B1: Personal Qualities

B2: Self-Management

B3: Professional and Career Development

Domain C: Research Governance and Organisation

C2: Research Management

Domain D: Engagement, Influence and Impact

D2: Communication and Dissemination

D3: Engagement and Impact

Accessibility Adjustments and Alternative Format requests: If you require any accessibility adjustments or have any questions about this session, please contact the the Academy's RD team Researcher@liverpool.ac.uk at least 7 days before the session date so that your requirements can be referred to the facilitator(s) who will make every effort to address them where possible.

Academy Researcher Development Inclusivity Statement: The Academy is committed to providing an environment which recognises and values people's differences, capitalises on the strengths that those differences bring to the institution and supports all staff and students in maximising their potential to succeed. In line with the Academy's firm commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we offer all postdoctoral and research-related opportunities to develop and network irrespective of a researcher’s gender, ethnicity, age, self-identification, disability, religious affiliation, or any other criteria used to separate and define.

Academy Code of Conduct: All events organised or facilitated by The Academy follow a Conduct of Conduct irrespective of the number of participants or session format. The Academy thanks all participants in advance for your cooperation to help ensure a safe and constructive environment for everybody. The Code of Conduct is available at: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/development/conduct-events/

Important: We take your privacy very seriously and will only use your email address to send you information about this session. Thereafter, we will contact you only where you have given us permission to do so. After that, you can opt-out at any time of receiving our communication by simply sending an email to researcher@liverpool.ac.uk

Stay in Touch: For the latest news and information about research staff development opportunities and resources follow @LivResearcher on Twitter (X). Further details about the University of Liverpool's Researcher Development activities can be found on the Researcher Hub: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/