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Researcher Development

Lancaster offers many professional and career development opportunities for researchers. These include short courses, programmes, online learning courses, mentoring, podcasts and more. Some of these opportunities are offered through the Research Culture team and others through the Curriculum and Educational Development Academy (CEDA), Library and the . The researcher development web pages aim to bring as many of these opportunities together into one space for easy viewing and access.

Our provision is informed by and mapped to the

“By ECRs, for ECRs”: British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (North West and North Wales Cluster)

This inclusive, researcher-led network is open to all UK-based early career researchers (ECRs) working across SHAPE disciplines. It offers a wide range of training, development, networking, and funding opportunities across the region and nationwide. There is no cost to be a member or attend the events. We welcome staff at Lancaster who identify as research active, including practice-based researchers and independent researchers. The network defines an ECR as someone who has completed their PhD (or equivalent research experience) in the last 10 years. However, there is flexibility for career breaks.

For further information, please visit the or contact the cluster’s project manager, Pam Forster, on p.forster@lancaster.ac.uk

North West Crucible 2026

The Crucible Programme brings together early-and mid?career researchers from North West universities (Cumbria, Lancashire, Lancaster, Manchester Metropolitan and Salford) to develop interdisciplinary skills, build cross?institutional networks, and generate innovative research ideas.

Two place from Lancaster have been allocated to the 2026 scheme. Case studies of the benefits and how this has promoted interdisciplinary research will be posted in due course.

Prosper

is an innovative approach to postdoc career development that seeks to unlock postdocs’ potential to thrive across multiple career pathways – both within and beyond academia.

Explore the , an online hub packed with insights and tools to help you uncover your career aspirations, discover opportunities beyond academia, and equip yourself with lifelong skills to thrive in any professional path you choose.

The Portal is completely free to use. unlocks the Career Development Navigator function, allowing you to tailor Prosper’s resources to your own journey and create a personalised action plan.

Prosper is led by the University of Liverpool and was developed in partnership with 抖阴探探App and the University of Manchester.

100 Black Women Professors Now

Lancaster is working with the Women's Higher Education Network (WHEN) to explore actions and changes to create a strong pipeline of black women professors. The aim of the programme is to provide black women academics with the most inclusive, impactful and bespoke support for their career development and unblock organisational barriers getting in the way of equity and progression.

For more information on the project visit the .

Academic Probationers' Conference Participation Fund

The Academic Probationers' Conference Participation Fund exists for staff on indefinite teaching and research contracts (T&R) and supports high-quality research outcomes linked to conference participation (in person or online). Specifically, up to £1,000 is available to support probationers in meeting their probationary conference participation requirements.

Priority will be given to those in the final year of their probationary period, where the probationary conference participation requirements have not yet been met.

The application form can be found here: