SPERO Discover: How to think entrepreneurially about your career (for doctoral students and ECRs)

Overview

This free 2-hour workshop for UCL doctoral students and other early career researchers will focus on identifying your skills through the lens of entrepreneurship.

In this practical and interactive workshop, you’ll work with fellow researchers from across the university to explore the broader applications of entrepreneurial thinking in diverse career paths.

The workshop will help you reframe the skills you're developing during your time as an early career researcher - skills which can be applied when working in industry, in academia or on your own enterprising project.

UCL doctoral students will receive one DocSkills training point via InkPath and the Doctoral School when you complete this workshop.

Who it’s for

This course is for UCL:

• MRes students
• doctoral students
• post-doctoral researchers
• early career researcher staff members (within 6 years of graduating from doctoral studies)
• research students who graduated from UCL within the past 2 years

You don't need any prior business experience to attend. You don't need to already have a business idea or be an aspiring entrepreneur.

What you'll learn

This workshop will help you: 

• identify and market your existing enterprise skills
• consider a wide number of career options and ways of working for yourself
• apply enterprising skills to your current research projects and future career, whether this be in academia, industry or starting your own enterprise
• integrate entrepreneurial approaches to problem-solving and innovation in your work
• cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset that builds creativity, resilience, and adaptability

Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements or requests, please let us know in the signup form.

Date and times

Thursday, 1 May, 9:30am to 11:30am.

Book your place

Book you place via InkPath.

If you cannot use InkPath, please complete the alternative booking form.

About the tutor

Dr Emma Williams is on a mission to enable researchers to take their next career step positively and proactively. Drawing on over 30 years’ experience in and around higher education – from being a physicist to training business owners – she speaks, writes and provides training on researcher development. Her favourite soapboxes include women’s development in universities and encouraging researchers to investigate all things enterprising. She brings creativity, empathy and usually a large coffee to her work.

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UCL Innovation & Enterprise reserves the right to make changes to the programme, location and/or speakers without prior notice. Such alterations are occasionally necessary due to circumstances beyond our control.