Imperial Leadership Development and Peer Mentoring Programme for Fellows, Assistant and Associate Professors

One of the main ingredients for professional success, in any field, is an ability to forge and maintain a strong and supportive ‘net’ that ‘works’. 

The Imperial Leadership Development and Peer Mentoring Programme for Fellows, Assistant and Associate Professors is designed to facilitate valuable connections with peers from various faculties and areas. As a peer mentor, you will have a unique opportunity to actively contribute to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace culture, sharpen your leadership skills, and advance your academic career: 

• Explore your own leadership style and team dynamics and learn how to get the best out of yourself and others.
• Learn the theory and practice of a coaching and mentoring approach to supporting your research group. 
• Build valuable connections with peers to share ideas, collaborate, and support each other in various aspects of academic life. 
• Develop your skills in strategic thinking, prioritisation, and workload management.
• Develop capability around the four themes of the ‘Narrative CV’. Get guidance on how to use insights from peer discussions and structured reflection to produce a draft narrative CV that can be used for future fellowship, promotion applications and other academic gateways. 

This programme is open to Independent Research Fellows and new Lecturers at Imperial.

Programme Outline

• 1 day Foundational Workshop: Live (in person, White City)
• 4 x 1 hour online lunchtime workshops Live (online, Zoom)
• 4 x 1 hour self-organised peer mentoring meetings Live (in person or online, to be decided by the peer mentoring group)
• 1 half-day celebration event and lunch Live (in person, White City)

Goals

The goal of this programme is to enable you to:

• Apply coaching and mentoring practices when leading people
• Build valuable connections with peers to share ideas, collaborate, and support each other in various aspects of academic life
• Articulate your contributions within the four themes of the ‘Narrative CV for Researchers’

How to book

Bookings are now fully booked for the exclusive 6-month programme starting on Friday 30 October 2026 and applications are now closed.  

Please note that this programme will be organised again in April 2027, applications will open in due course.

Please ensure you have read and understood ECRI’s attendance & cancellation policy before booking.