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Are you a postdoc at Cambridge? Would you like to be individually matched with a mentor to support you?We offer a mentoring scheme to help identify and achieve your professional goals, build on your confidence, and overcome challenges. Over a 9-month period you will have at least 3-5 confidential meetings, where you’ll highlight and work towards yo…

Networking, in combination with an effective professional profile, can help you succeed, whether your focus is academic or further afield. This course, represented by over 10 UK Higher Education institutions, offers practical advice and insight on making the most of networking opportunities wherever you may find them.In the six week course you will…

Looking to improve your leadership skills? Join our dynamic group coaching programme!This course offers participants customised learning and development to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to drive innovation, inspire teams, and achieve your professional goals.Through engaging group discussions, interactive activities, and perso…

Four Cambridge postdocs have been awarded the Schmidt Fellowship for 2024. Applications are taken from a selection of world-leading institutions, with the latest cohort beginning a year ago. This year represented a particularly successful year for Cambridge, as four out of the thirty-two places were accepted from PhD students from the University o…

On 9 April, there was a webinar for postdocs and early career researchers to discuss the University's review of its Employer Justified Retirement Age (EJRA).You can now access the slides from this event here (log into Google using your University account), and you can find further information on the topic here.If you are interested in pursuing a le…

Are you embarking on a new research project? Or finding it difficult to juggle the tasks that underpin your current work? Apply now for our new Advanced Research Project Management course and learn how to better allocate time and resources, facilitate communication with colleagues and collaborators, and mitigate risk factors and uncertainty.Places …

The Transforming Research Support (TRS) team are working on improving the pre-award grant application journey and they are looking for postdocs to participate in user research.TRS are seeking your help to better understand whether the new content for the Research Operations Office (ROO) website is tailored to the needs of researchers and pre-award …

We're looking to appoint a Communications Assistant to support engaging communications across our website, newsletter and social media channels, providing information to Cambridge's community of 4,000 postdocs.The role is part of the Communications team which provides strategic planning and delivery of the overall communication programme for the Po…

You may have heard about the current consultation on the researcher reward and progression proposals. You may not think the words “HR consultation” are the most exciting in the world, so we wanted to take a moment to explain why we think these proposals are worthy of your consideration.We think they have the potential to be a very significant chang…

You can now book onto this term's full programme of professional development and information events designed specifically for postdocs.From enhancing your focus and managing research projects, to understanding your pension or the new immigration rules - explore them all now.January04 – Virtual writing retreat (14:00 – 16:00)11 – SMART goals for pro…

Registration is now open to attend an exciting virtual course on networking and profile building.Learn tools for successfully growing and nurturing your networks and put your skills into practice with researchers from 10 other UK universities.The course consists of six complementary sessions which are designed to be attended as a series:Introductio…

We are looking to appoint a Finance and Operations Manager to lead on the financial, centres, and people operations of our small and dynamic department.The role will make a vital contribution to delivering an excellent, efficient service to the University's community of 4000+ postdocs.The Finance and Operations Manager will be part of the Postdoc A…

However you'll be spending your break, all of us at the Postdoc Academy wish you a happy, healthy and restful time.The Postdoc Academy team will be on leave from 4pm on Friday 22 December until 9am on Tuesday 2 January.During this period, our reception at Eddington will not be staffed and inboxes and phones will not be checked. We will respond to q…

As postdocs, you face a unique combination of stressors that make it harder to protect your mental wellbeing.So Sam Thorogood from Tiny Pause, one of our regular facilitators, is introducing the Protect Focus series for postdocs.The aim is to help you establish protective habits to optimise your focus and quality recovery moments, and manage diffic…

Would you like a series of one-to-one coaching sessions to talk about your personal development or current challenges?Kasia Lanucha is an experienced coach currently enrolled in the MSc in Coaching programme at the University and is seeking pro bono clients to fulfil her practice requirements.Whether you'd like to focus on specific areas of persona…