Overview of this session

The Personal Development Review (PDR) is a mandatory process for all staff at Queen's; it is centered around a conversation between a member of staff and their line manager, focusing on discussing their development and career plan, to allow them to deliver their role and achieve their career goals.

In 2024, the PDC is introducing new Personal Development Review (PDR) resources, including a new form and guidance documents and videos for research staff and their managers. These new resources were designed to improve the benefits of the PDR for research staff, by including useful self-reflection elements and structuring the conversation to focus on career and personal development, including planning the use of the 10 career development days research staff are entitled to. They were based on research staff feedback (from surveys and local representatives) and refined following a successful pilot in 2023 with postdocs and line managers across the three Faculties.

As the PDR at Queen's normally takes place over the summer, research staff will have to use the new form for their PDR in the upcoming months.

This session will cover some information on the PDR process and the new resources, and will provide an opportunity for research staff to ask questions. In addition, a member of the Prosper team will introduce and demonstrate features of the Prosper portal to attendees. The Prosper portal is a career development tool created especially for postdocs and includes a lot of self-reflection, career exploration and career planning resources that can be especially useful when preparing for the PDR or included in actions to address development goals in the PDR. 

While initially designed for research staff, other interested individuals, including line managers of researchers, are welcome to attend.

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Facilitators

The session will be facilitated by Alice Dubois, Research Culture Manager at Queen's and Stefania Silvestri, Researcher Developer (Research Staff) in the Prosper Team.

The 'Postdoc Life' series

The 'Postdoc Life' series of information sessions aims at highlighting some of the internal and sector developments and initiatives to postdocs and research staff, in order to help them better understand and navigate their direct (Queen's) and wider (UK Research and Innovation sector) environment.

Sessions are organised approximately every other month, with topics informed by the PDC Representatives' Network. All postdocs and research staff can suggest future topics by contacting the PDC (pdc@qub.ac.uk) or their local representative.