exploring post-PhD routes

Training Organisation: how2glu

Delivery: Online, One half days (2 hr 15 min online workshops) plus one 1-2-1 online coaching session per participant.

Programme Description:

This 1-month programme will help you identify strengths and explore post-PhD options. The programme is led by Dr Sabina Strachan who is an architectural historian and has since gone on to start her own business, a consultancy that helps people work together better to achieve greater impacts (www.how2glu.com).

The how2glu approach is practical, responsive and action-oriented. Using accessible methods, glucard™ visual tools and resources and supported by coaching and peer learning, you will create successful strategies to manage and develop relationships and achieve your intended outcomes. Sabina will create graphics in real-time during workshops to demonstrate tools and capture your findings.

The programme has three main components: x1 online workshop, a coaching session and an online toolbox.

- The cohort will come together over one 2-hour 15-minute online workshop where we’ll identify contexts that align with your values and aspirations, explore your personal ‘offer’ that extends beyond knowledge and experience and focus on your ‘soft’ skill strengths and approach. We’ll also look at how to frame your experiences and actions to demonstrate transferable skills, share networking tips, and highlight specific how2glu toolbox ‘soft’ skills development activities.

- You will access one 45-minute 1-2-1 coaching session with Sabina 2-4 weeks after the workshop to discuss your post-PhD ambitions, work through ways to develop sought-after skills, where to look for opportunities and how to filter them, how to network effectively, and how to overcome barriers.

- You will have access to a dedicated Google Drive folder to access all the programme resources and bespoke ‘toolbox’ during the programme and for four weeks afterwards to review content / download what you’d like to retain. During your 1-2-1 Sabina will match you with tools that respond to the challenges / questions you raised.

About how2glu / Dr Sabina Strachan:

- Sabina is a partnership developer, collaboration expert and entrepreneur who founded how2glu in 2018, a consultancy and training provider that helps people work together better to achieve greater impacts (www.how2glu.com). She is a strategist and expert problem solver, who has worked with strategic stakeholders for over 20 years.

- Recent projects include reviewing a Newcastle University/third sector partnership, business development for Lincoln University and industry engagement training for the University of Glasgow, culture strategy development for Glasgow and Sheffield, advice on organisational resilience for a range of cultural organisations in across the UK, partnership working coaching for post-doc fellows, and a variety of training such as ‘project manager essentials’ and ‘how to freelance’ for several DTPs such as Northern Bridge and SGSAH. how2glu is also developing innovative skills-related digital products, working with partners from the HE, public and private sectors.

- Sabina was previously a University of Glasgow research developer and headed up the Scotland office of an international research & management creative economy consultancy. She is on the board of student engagement and autism mentorship charities, a business advisor for cultural and heritage organisations, a graphic facilitator, and coach. Sabina studied architecture and architectural history and was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn ways to identify strengths beyond your knowledge such as your approach and different types of expertise.

• Identify options for post-PhD routes that align with your values and motivations.

• Learn how to identify and communicate transferable skills from your PhD experience.

• Identify your own career development objectives related to networking.

• Learn ways to evaluate post-PhD options.

• Share barriers to identify and access opportunities and learn strategies to overcome these from your peers and from practical examples.