The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers

The University delivers many events for researchers across all subject areas:

• Research training forms part of the online induction toolkit. An integrated approach is offered and links are made between academic and research, professional and organisational, leadership and management, and the development journey.
• Training and development for research active staff.
• Salford Postgraduate & Staff Research Training (SPoRT) The training sessions available are organised according to the four domains mapped out in the Researcher Development Framework and are open to all postgraduate researchers, academic and research staff.
• Supervisor development As part of the University's continuing efforts to improve our postgraduate research student experience, we provide training for all academic staff who supervise postgraduate research students.
• Our Blackboard site which offers a range of courses to support new and established academic and research colleagues in developing their learning, teaching and research skills and knowledge (requires your user name and password).

• Researcher almanac for events and training sessions Contributions to the Almanac are welcome from all staff and research students.
• The Research Support blog which includes research policy, funder intelligence and also promotes research training events.
• The Research Intranet which contains a range of guidance about research funding, assessment and project management (requires your user name and password)
• An institutional subscription to Research Professional where every colleague at the University of Salford can set up an account which delivers weekly emails detailing funding opportunities in their subject area and tailor searches (requires your user name and password).

• Internal Support Schemes which include a number of strategic funds available to research staff to support our continued development of excellent research with impact. The funds include the International Conference Fund, the Research Bidding Support Fund and the Open Access Fund and more
• The Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Scholarships to support early career researchers of outstanding potential. Successful applicants will receive a bursary of £2,000 over two years to meet research expenses, a minimum research workload allocation of 20% (over two years) and support from a dedicated academic mentor.
• The Vice Chancellor’s annual Research Excellence Awards made to an individual researcher, or a research team, one of which is to be an early career researcher who can demonstrate the excellence of their research.
• Research Publication Completion Retreat for academic staff who are currently working on a research paper. Open to all disciplines and all career stages, from lecturer to professor levels. The main criterion for selection, however, is the potential of the paper to benefit from the collaboration of colleagues across the disciplines. Papers should, therefore, be appropriate for fellow academics from a broad range of fields to follow and comment on.

There are a number of UK/EU policies which guide the University in enhancing researcher development:

• Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers provides a single, unambiguous statement of the expectations and responsibilities of research funders and institutions with respect to the management of researchers.
• EU Charter for Research Staff
• Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework approach to developing world-class researchers. It identifies the knowledge, behaviour and attributes of successful researchers. It helps them maximise their potential and get the most out of their career by developing these attributes.
• HR Excellence in Research Award which the University is proud to hold and which guides our research career development focus