Key information
Tutor: Dr Anna Seabourne
Duration: 3 hours
Delivery: Live (Online, Zoom)
Course Credit (PGR only): 1 credit
Audience: Postdocs, Research Fellows, Research Degree Students
Dates
- Tues 18 November 2025
09:30-12:30, Zoom - Tues 27 January 2026
09:30-12:30, Zoom
This interactive session is designed to provide you with useful information to help you prepare for the next stage of your academic career. Is a lectureship the right thing for you? Can you make your academic career ambitions a reality? Where are the gaps in your CV? What can you do now to start filling in those missing areas?
This course is aimed at postdocs and fellows, but there are a limited number of spaces for postgraduate researchers.
Aims
- To identify your strengths and weaknesses for career promotion
- To develop your ability to be strategic about the choices you make over the next five years
Objectives
By the end of the course, you will:
- Have analysed senior academic CVs
- Have peer reviewed each other’s CVs
- Have created an action plan to maximise the potential of your CV
How to book
Book via Inkpath using your Imperial Single-Sign-On.
Please ensure you have read and understood ECRI’s cancellation policy before booking.
Further Information
You must send your CV to ecri@imperial.ac.uk at least 5 working days before the course. Your CV will be reviewed by your peers during the session, so it is worth spending time on it to make it the best you can.
- It is important that you are fully present and an active participant, to create a safe space for sharing and discussion.
- For some of our online sessions, you will be required to keep your video cameras on. Please ensure prior to attending that you have a fully functioning camera and microphone. If you have any issues with your equipment, please contact usas soon as possible. If you require your camera to be off as a workplace adjustment, please let us know in advance so that we can make the tutor/facilitator aware.
- Please ensure that you are in a private space where you can maintain confidentiality and the privacy of the other participants.
- To maintain confidentiality, all participants are asked to agree to keep what is said within the group, and not record or take screenshots/photos without permission. Pictures or quotes from the session should not be posted on social media or elsewhere without the express permission of those involved.
- Your CV will be shared with a selection of your peers as part of the course so that you can learn from each other and see where the gaps may be. This part of the course is not optional – if you do not wish to submit or share your draft CV you cannot attend the course.
- For the course to be successful, we need to ensure that anything that you view or is shared with you verbally during the course is kept confidential. All documents that are shared with you will be done so via OneDrive (link will be sent to you the morning of the course). Documents can be viewed but they will not be able to be edited or downloaded.
By attending the course, you are agreeing to keep all that is shared with you confidential and to not make any digital copies of the documents to which you will be given access. You can however take written notes.