Broaden your Horizons (BYH) Programme aims
- Support all researchers, at all stages of their careers in their personal, professional and career development.
- Empower researchers to take responsibility for and be proactive in engaging with their own professional development.
- Promote an awareness of the skills, knowledge and qualities needed to produce both high-quality and impactful research, and to be an effective Researcher through a provision that is inclusive, flexible and responsive to researchers’ needs.
- Enhance inter-disciplinary collaboration and support.
- Expand SETU's Research Community.
The BYH brochure details the current range of provision for you to take advantage of during your time at SETU. You will find an overview of courses and events specifically designed for career researchers.
There are four central Skills Development Categories including Research Environment, Career Development, Knowledge & Expertise and Personal Skills & Effectiveness. Each category contains a range of programme topics which will be offered at various times throughout the year.
The main mode of delivery is face-to-face through interactive workshops. Based on the skills and experience that national and international funders expect you to develop during the course of your research career, the programme is delivered collaboratively by internal and external specialists, offering a tailored suite of workshops, courses, events and resources.
The programme complements the technical and discipline-specific training that you will receive at a local level, focusing on wider transferable skills. We leave it up to you to decide which courses you will choose to attend, depending on your own individual needs, interests and particular career juncture.
Women in Research Network (WIRN)
The WIRN aims to appeal to researchers of all levels, and to raise the profile and visibility of female and female identifying researchers at SETU and bringing research active female community together.
The key objectives of the WIRN network and promote interaction between members, encouraging meetings, exchange of ideas, and the formation of mentoring or research relationships, while also collectively agreeing the purpose, direction and goals of the network going forward.
Join the network
WIRN is an initiative of SETU’s Human Resource Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R). WIRN strongly encourages membership from women in SETU’s research community from under-represented groups, particularly those with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT+ community.
The WIRN are actively seeking new members, should you wish to join this new network please fill in the form below.
Researcher wellbeing
Academic research can be both enormously rewarding and enormously challenging. Pressure to achieve in research can be immense, demands to publish in peer-reviewed journals, present at international conferences, organise your own conferences, be superb networkers, win funding and ideally gain professional experience in teaching, administration and project management have become more and more intense. Staying a relatively balanced, productive, sane and sociable individual is no mean feat when you are a researcher, but it does help when you know you are not the only one and you don’t have to go it alone.
Wellbeing initiatives
We have a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you cope with the highs and lows that everyone experiences doing research. Our wellbeing initiatives are based around: Being Connected, Being Active, Being Present, Being Engaged, and Being Kind. We actively encourage you to take time out at regular wellbeing events including researcher wellbeing walks, research games sports days, researcher bake-offs, researcher networking coffee morning, festive get togethers, as well as spring and summer socials.
Research wellbeing model
