This is a quick update following the gathering of participants, mentors and others at the conclusion of the 2017 workshop series, including the key dates for 2017-18.<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This year\u2019s participants were as positive as ever, citing the most rewarding aspects of the programme as:<\/p>\n
a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dedicated time, support and insight to take more active control of their career development.<\/p>\n
b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The insight into the situation of their peers at other institutions: just like us!<\/p>\n
As ever, different parts of the programme had different value for different people, and there was still unevenness about the contribution of the role models, but overall it was hugely beneficial. Forming a Bath cohort to travel together also seems to have been very useful.<\/p>\n
2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The University will take part in the programme again next year, with\u00a0 a very similar application process, as it\u2019s considered pretty robust.\u00a0 We will add more structure and firmer expectations about taking part in scheduled preparation and feedback meetings, be more systematic in our support for mentoring, and firm up the expectation for sponsoring managers to be involved in supporting the ongoing development of participants on return.<\/p>\n
3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During 2017-18 we will review the University\u2019s participation in Aurora in more depth, testing the impact it has had on individuals and the organisation and what we can do to take things forward. It is likely that the LFHE will change Aurora in some way after next year, the final one of the original commitment, but it will still be part of their programme.<\/p>\n
KEY DATES FOR 2017-18<\/strong><\/p>\n 18 September \u00a0 \u00a0 Publicity and call for applications<\/p>\n 23 October \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Closing date for applications<\/p>\n 14 November \u00a0 \u00a0 Selection panel meeting<\/p>\n 10 January \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cohort and mentor preparation meeting<\/p>\n 31 January \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cardiff workshop series 5 June \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Reflection and celebration meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a quick update following the gathering of participants, mentors and others at the conclusion of the 2017 workshop series, including the key dates for 2017-18. 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This year\u2019s participants were as positive as ever, citing the most rewarding...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/aurora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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