Innovative Approach to Postdoc Career Development
Prosper is an innovative approach to postdoc career development that aims to unlock postdocs' potential to thrive across various career pathways. Led by The Academy at the University of Liverpool and funded by UKRI, Prosper provides postdocs with insights from employers, helps them identify skills and skill gaps, build confidence, discover career priorities, and develop in-demand skills. The Prosper Portal is a free online hub offering information, tools, and resources to help postdocs create tailored career development plans. With a history of successful pilot cohorts and plans for future collaborations with higher education institutions, Prosper is set to become a cornerstone of postdoc career development in the UK.
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What is Prosper? For Postdocs Identify skills and skill gaps Build confidence Discover career priorities Prosper is an innovative approach to postdoc career development that seeks to unlock postdocs potential to thrive across multiple career pathways - both within and beyond academia. Led by The Academy at the University of Liverpool, it was developed through the Research England Development fund, and is now funded by UKRI. Direct insights from employers across 12 career clusters Learn first-hand about routes other postdocs have taken Develop in-demand skills The Prosper Portal is a free-to-use online hub containing a wealth of information, tools and resources: Learn to effectively showcase skills and tailor them to roles Discover the essentials of setting up a business Drive continuous development For Managers For Institutions Use Prosper as a flexible, modular and free career development model Enhance existing postdoc development offerings Cultivate a positive research culture Support team members career development Develop leadership and management skills Foster a positive and inclusive working environment Postdocs can create their own career development plan and chart a tailored course through Prosper s materials with the interactive Career Development Navigator tool I believe Prosper can play a leading role in driving best practice in developing postdoctoral research careers and strongly encourage research institutions across the UK to adopt and make use of Prosper resources. Professor Dame Jessica Corner, Executive Chair of Research England
Prospers history March 2021 First pilot cohort Following an extensive recruitment process, 53 postdocs from a range of disciplines across the University of Liverpool join the first year-long Prosper pilot cohort May 2023 Additional funding At an event showcasing the outcomes of the pilot cohorts, UKRI announces an extra 3 years of funding to accelerate rollout of Prosper across the HE sector September 2023 Rollout begins October 2019 Launch Prosper formally launches to the sector during National Postdoc Appreciation Week Prosper was the first project to be funded by the Research England Development (RED) fund - with a 3.5-year remit to develop a new approach to postdoc career development, for rollout across the UK HE sector July 2023 Prosper portal created March 2022 Second pilot cohort June 2020 Prototype prosper portal September 2020 The PI network All the resources and materials from the pilot cohorts - together with additional guidance and content for PIs and Institutions - are brought together onto the current Prosper portal Prosper s second year-long pilot cohort, comprising 75 postdocs drawn from a range of disciplines across the three partner institutions, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester and Lancaster University, begins An initial set of development resources available to staff at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, and Lancaster University Prosper launches the PI Network, a forum for PIs across its partner institutions to share and drive best practice in regards to managing postdocs and supporting their career development
Prospers future With its model and portal now live, Prosper is now working with Higher Education institutions up and down the UK to drive adoption of its resources The ultimate aim is to make Prosper a mainstay feature of postdoc career development across the sector. This will be achieved by: Collaborating with institutions to achieve a form of adoption that works for them - whether this is running a full Prosper cohort, or adapting Prosper resources into existing programmes on a modular basis Facilitating use of the Portal through the creation of a bank of online resources for researcher developers to use to promote Prosper within their own organisations Working closely with early adopters - institutions that are already running Prosper cohorts in 2024 include the University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and Newcastle University Organising events for the researcher developer community for enabling sharing of best practice - such as the online Prosper Made Easy sessions, and an annual in-person Prosper event (details TBC) Establishing the PI Network as a cross-institutional forum. A schedule of events for 2024 is underway, with more to be confirmed All of which will be in service of putting Prosper on a sustainable, cross-institutional footing by autumn of 2026
Register for the Prosper Portal: https://prosper.liverpool.ac.uk/login-register/
