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Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers

The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers

web: www.researchconcordat.ac.uk/

The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers was officially launched on 25 June 2008 at Central Hall Westminster, London by Ian Pearson MP, Minister for Science and Innovation.

The Concordat is designed to be a clear statement of some key principles for the support and management of researchers and their careers. It has been developed by a UK HE sector working group co-ordinated by RCUK. Members of the working group are largely drawn from within the HE sector and represent the interests of employers, employees and funders.

The Concordat’s key principles are:


  1. Recognition of the importance of recruiting, selecting and retaining researchers with the highest potential to achieve excellence in research.

  2. Researchers are recognised and valued by their employing organisation as an essential part of their organisation’s human resources and a key component of their overall strategy to develop and deliver world-class research.

  3. Researchers are equipped and supported to be adaptable and flexible in an increasingly diverse, mobile, global research environment.

  4. The importance of researchers' personal and career development, and lifelong learning, is clearly recognised and promoted at all stages of their career.

  5. Individual researchers share the responsibility for and need to pro-actively engage in their own personal and career development, and lifelong learning.

  6. Diversity and equality must be promoted in all aspects of the recruitment and career management of researchers.

  7. The sector and all stakeholders will undertake regular and collective review of their progress in strengthening the attractiveness and sustainability of research careers in the UK.

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