The Leadership and Management Development Programme for Researchers: a case history

A Journal of Postdoctoral Research.

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The Leadership and Management Development Programme for Researchers: a case history

Flaminia Malvezzi Campeggi

Istituto Superiore Don Bosco

Istituto Superiore Don Bosco, Verona, Italy

fmalvezzich@gmail.com

From September 2010 until October 2011 I worked at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) as Research Support Officer, having a background experience of five years as post-doctoral researcher. One of my responsibilities was the planning and organisation of the Leadership and Management Development Programme (LMDP) for Researchers. The aim of the programme is to alert researchers to the importance of the leadership and managerial aspects of their career and to give them practical information that will help them to succeed as planners and managers of research programs. When advancing in the academic career, postdocs suddenly find themselves as leaders of a group, an institutional role that you hardly will be prepared for, as highlighted by Kolb et al. 2012. In the present manuscript......