Core Offers
As a member of the PATHWAYS Programme you have signed up for a range of face-to-face events, training and coaching. Further information on these Core Offers is provided below, including how to take part in the events and programmes.
If you can’t remember which Core Offers you signed up for, or if you have other questions, email us at pathways@flfdevnet.com.
As well as these Core Offers, regular leadership development opportunities are available in our PATHWAYS events listings.
We’re looking forward to meeting you at our events!
Crucibles
Our Crucibles are interdisciplinary, cross-sector events that foster collaborations between researchers and innovators. Each Crucible is held across two sets of dates during the year.
Do you want to:
- Have real space and time to think about yourself and your work?
- Meet researchers who you would never normally meet?
- Build trusted collaborations?
We are offering you all the opportunity to experience our Crucible Programme. The programme is designed to form an interdisciplinary, cross-sector network that fosters collaborations between researchers and innovators who normally don’t get the chance to meet.
Our experience is that this model creates lasting networks, beyond the life of the programme. It is designed to introduce people to new ways of thinking and working. We will have some short facilitated sessions, inspiring speakers and time to collaborate – and squeeze in a bit of fun.
Our Crucibles are developed by Samantha Aspinall with Emma Spary and Ruth Winden.
Please remember you have committed to the dates for BOTH sessions A and B in order to participate fully in this event and to follow up the work undertaken in the first session.
Crucible 1 (Leeds)
- 6-7 July 2023
- 21-22 September 2023
Crucible 2 (Cardiff)
- 5-6 February 2024 (within reason +- a couple of days)
- 21-22 March 2024
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered to take part in one of our Crucibles, we will email you with further details about the event.
Leadership Retreats
Our three-day residential Leadership Retreat is designed to give you insights to navigate your leadership development productively. The interactive, reflective content will gradually build a toolkit which you can take back and apply to your work.
The Retreat is also an opportunity to network with your peers, enabling you to share your leadership challenges and goals, and spend focused time co-developing strategies for leading effectively.
The programme is designed around three key areas of leadership:
- Leadership of self – communication style, personality preferences, emotional intelligence
- Leadership of others – influencing and supporting teams and individuals, irrespective of your role
- Leadership in action – being strategic, creating a vision and setting priorities.
Within the retreat, these different elements will be examined through a combination of theoretical insights, self-reflection, and group discussion, followed by practical action planning and commitment setting.
- Leadership Retreat 1 (Bristol/Bath) – 26-28 Sep 2023
- Leadership Retreat 2 (Edinburgh) – 15-17 April 2024
- Leadership Retreat (Birmingham) – 23-25 Sep 2024
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered to take part in one of our Leadership Retreats, we will email you with further details about the event approximately one month before it takes place.
Community Building Event
This one-day community building event is designed to help PATHWAYS participants solidify connections developed over the course of the programme. Held in Summer 2024, the event will allow you to engage with colleagues from across the UK, and build networks across disciplines.
Dr Geraint Wyn Story will open the event by introducing Lego Serious Play, a recognised tool for identifying, diagnosing, and tackling complex problems encountered through research and innovation. Lego Serious Play is a facilitated process which enables participants to access intangible insights and deep knowledge through creativity, and which prioritises equality of time and contribution. In this session, you will learn how these simple toy bricks can be deployed to solve complex problems affecting your work, your team, or your career.
In our second session, Samantha Aspinall, Specialist in Interdisciplinary Research at the Future Leaders Fellows Development Network, will explore the concept of community building, encouraging PATHWAYS participants to interact and explore ways of building and maintaining networks within their teams, institutions, and with each other.
This event is designed to allow participants to get to know one another outside of training, build a sense of peer support, and provoke excitement for future collaborations.
The Community Building Event will take place in London on 10 July 2024.
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered to take part in our Community Building Event, we will email you with further details.
Research Project Management Course
This online programme from MY Consultants is designed for PIs and contains content specifically for researchers and innovators. The course explores how to effectively apply project management principles to research projects based in universities and research organisations.
This is project management tailored specifically to the research context.
The online Research Project Management programme offers a self-guided approach so you can explore modules on project definition, planning, implementation and close out at your own pace.
The online materials are complimented by a workshop which gives you the opportunity to ask questions and help you apply the content and make progress.
The online Research Project Management course will be available to PATHWAYS participants on our website.
Two dates will be offered for the Research Project Management workshop so that participants can choose the most convenient date to attend. These will take place in Autumn 2023.
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered to join this course*, we will email you when the module and workshops become available on our website.
You will need to sign up for one of the two online workshops dates via the PATHWAYS events page and complete the online course in advance of the event.
* If you did not sign up for this Core Offer at the start of the PATHWAYS Programme, you will not have access. If you can’t remember which Core Offers you signed up for, please contact us at pathways@flfdevnet.com.
Leadership Mentoring Programme
In our tailored mentoring programme, we will hand-match you with an experienced mentor for six months of focused development time. Our Leadership Mentors are leaders in their sector and experienced professionals from within and outside academia.
Visit our PATHWAYS mentoring pages to:
- explore the benefits of mentoring
- learn how the Leadership Mentoring Programme works
- meet our Mentoring Team
- read a range of Mentoring FAQs
Our PATHWAYS Leadership Mentoring Programme will run from September 2023.
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered to take part in our Leadership Mentoring, you will need to attend one of our Mentoring Welcome Workshops in order to join the programme.* We will email you closer to the Programme start date to remind you to book your space.
* If you did not sign up for this Core Offer at the start of the PATHWAYS Programme, you will not have access. If you can’t remember which Core Offers you signed up for, please contact us at pathways@flfdevnet.com.
360 Feedback and Coaching
Our 360 Feedback and Coaching Programme, based on our bespoke research leadership model, allows you to compare your self-perceptions of your leadership and management with that of your colleagues and explore the outcomes in a one-to-one coaching session.
Visit our PATHWAYS 360 Feedback and Coaching pages to:
- explore our bespoke 360 Feedback and Coaching Programme
- discover what you need to do to take part
- read our 360 Feedback FAQs
The Programme begins with a survey that is open from 3 April to 15 May 2023 – you and your colleagues need to be available to complete the survey, approximately 20-30 mins, during this period. This is followed by a 90-minute individual 360 coaching session to take place at a time of your choosing during June 2023.
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered for 360 Feedback and Coaching*, we will email you when the programme launches with details of how to manage your survey and book your coaching session.
* If you did not sign up for this Core Offer at the start of the PATHWAYS Programme, you will not have access. If you can’t remember which Core Offers you signed up for, please contact us at pathways@flfdevnet.com.
One-to-one Coaching
Two fully funded, online, one-to-one leadership coaching sessions with a professional coach – on topics you identify, at a time of your choosing.
Visit our PATHWAYS One-to-on Coaching page to:
- explore how the One-to-one Coaching scheme works
- read the Network’s coaching guidelines
- meet our pool of expert coaches
Our PATHWAYS coaching scheme will run from April 2023 and you will have until the end of September 2024 to complete your two sessions.
If you are a PATHWAYS participant and have registered to take part in One-to-one Coaching*, fill in our online form to request your coaching.
If you are taking part in our 360 Feedback and Coaching, you may prefer to wait until you have been allocated a coach for this programme (in April) before arranging your One-to-one Coaching sessions as you may want to request the same practitioner (where possible).
* If you did not sign up for this Core Offer at the start of the PATHWAYS Programme, you will not have access. If you can’t remember which Core Offers you signed up for, please contact us at pathways@flfdevnet.com.