Courses & Programmes

This COHORT programme introduces postdocs to funding and fellowships and encourages reflection and planning to make you competitive for academic posts in future

Career and professional development mentoring for postdocs and fellows by members of academic staff

This programme or writing retreats supports those starting or actively working on a funding bid to craft their proposal and application narratives

This stand-alone workshop supports researchers submitting funding bids that require the Resume for Research and Innovation (R4RI) or the Resume for Researchers

How to create impact in journal papers, make grant applications that get funded, and ways to inject style into your prose

This workshop asks you to consider what will entice editors, reviewers and your target readers, offering you 'hands-on' techniques and strategies to plan and manage the successful writing of a research paper.

This series of writing retreats follows-on from our paper writing workshop, to give authors reserved time to get that paper written NOW!

This workshop uses screenwriting techniquest to help you identify the message at the heart of your writing, while offering simple ways to develop a clear, coherent and compelling writing style

Whether it's that paper you've been meaning to start, or that grant application that needs work, these mini writing and productivity retreats help you 'get stuff done'!

A practical leadership programme for postdoctoral researchers that will help you assess your skills and reflect on your plans for future development

Learn how to network, build confidence, and develop your research profile, while you network with postdocs from other UK universities

Improve your ability to communicate your research by reflecting on your audience, message, visuals, and presentation style

Dr Emma Williams will help YOU reflect on and plan how to use your 10 days (70 hours) of annual CPD time 

This practical course will teach you what it takes to put on an academic conference-style event like the Queen Mary Postdoc Conference

This course will help you develop confidence and self-efficacy with your professional relationships with your peers and senior researchers

An online career and professional development programme for early career women and non-binary researchers

We offer a range of courses for researchers on QM+, our virtual learning environment