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Unlocking your potential through a coaching mindset

17 July, 2025

Adopting a coaching mindset – focussed on empathy, open questioning and purposeful challenge – can transform your approach to research development. Doug Brown, a leadership coach, recently worked with Stephen Roberts and Cathy Boucher at King’s College London to implement a 4-step toolkit to help RMAs develop the skills necessary to support others in navigating complexity and reach their goals more effectively.

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RMA Spotlight: Kirsty Grainger

12 June, 2025

Welcome to RMA Spotlight, a new article series celebrating inspiring career journeys of professionals in research management. In our first feature, we catch up with Kirsty Grainger, Director of Research and Impact Services at the University of Bath.

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Now we are one

26 March, 2025

This time last year I was nervously biting my nails. I’d taken over the Editorial Working Group from the mighty Alicen Nickson, who had steered the august members’ magazine, The Protagonist, for many years, producing a beautiful and informative periodical that was a wonderful shop window to our profession.

The Adventures Of Administrator-Who-Is-Also-A-Researcher

24 October, 2024

Administrators are the unsung heroes of academia, working tirelessly to support research activity. But what if they could enhance their mighty powers by doing their own research too? Find out now, in the amazing adventures of Administrator-Who-Is-Also-A-Researcher!

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Unpacking SHAPE research careers

12 September, 2024

A new British Academy project aims to unpack what research careers and being a researcher can look like, with a specific focus on SHAPE (social sciences, humanities and arts for people and economy) disciplines.

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The Researchers at Risk Fellowships are a “win-win” for fellows and their host university

1 August, 2024

Financial constraints and changes in the UK’s immigration policy have been major challenges for Universities of Sanctuary. These challenges, however, are offset by the considerable benefits that the widening of access to UK universities through sanctuary initiatives can bring, including the building of networks, collaborations and engagement that might never have happened without them.

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