Building networks and relationships can really strengthen your research and provide opportunities for your current study, future research, and career progression. This session will help build your confidence to start cultivating relationships now and offer some practical steps and top tips to get networking immediately.

Delivered by Gareth Young, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellow, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence

This session will provide you with top tips, advice and insights into developing a communication strategy for your own research, helping you get information about your research (no matter what stage of your studies) out to a range of non-academic audiences. You will also leave the session with some very clear, practical ways in which you can begin to write your own communication strategy today.

Delivered by Claire Martin, Marketing & Communications Lead, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow

This session will provide a brief overview of the policy world, before going into more detail about how to start mapping out key stakeholders in your field who are in a position to influence and change policy. It will be an opportunity to ask questions about how you can start to think about policy engagement, as well as providing practical resources to help increase your confidence with policy engagement going forward.

Delivered by Sarah Weakley, Research and Knowledge Exchange Lead, Social Sciences College Research Administration, University of Glasgow

An open session to ask questions to early career researchers who have recently finished their PhDs.