12P's for PI's

This is a statement of our SCMH culture: to consider the career development of our early career researchers in everything we do. Every principal investigator in SCMH has signed a declaration to abide by these principles and they are proudly displayed in our main corridor, in induction materials, and on our webpages. 

1.

Prioritise career development over lab stability
  • Encourage mobility to aid career development 
  • Encourage  alternative careers when a long-term academic career is no longer desired

2.

Planning and P&DR
  • Meet ECRs annually  to discuss career development plans separately and in addition to P&DR

3.

Personal fellowships
  • Assist, support, encourage, and mentor ECRs for personal fellowships  

4.

Promote
  • Be aware of promotion criteria  for grades 7 & 8 and encourage applications

5.

Pass on opportunities 
  • If you cannot give a talk or write a review. offer it to a post-doc and provide support

6.

Pay
  • Pay people appropriately for their skills - consider applying for higher-grade funding in grants.

7.

Prizes
  • Nominate or encourage applications for society early career and thesis prizes.

8.

Publications 
  • Recognise opportunities for extra publications for early career researchers such as pilot data or method development

9.

Pilot funding
  • Consider allowing an early career researcher to lead an application for small grant funding for pilot work.

10.

Parental and Carer support
  • Refresh your knowledge of parental and carer policies, use the parental leave agreement template with your group members, be supportive of shared leave and encourage the use of funds such as the MVLS Academic Returners Scheme.
  • Remember that promotion criteria, REF and fellowship criteria all account for periods of parental and carers leave so researchers do not have to wait until they have "caught up" 

11.

PhD Supervision
  • There is now a section of the PhD supervisor's agreement form where a post-doc can be recorded as part of the supervisory team
  • Encourage attendance at supervisor training and sharing these supervision opportunities around your group.

12.

Prejudice
  • Ensure you have completed the mandatory equality and diversity training.