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Research Professionals

This framework is a development tool designed to support your thinking about your career progression and development within Research Professional roles at UCL. There are two job families in this area: Impact and Doctoral Training Entities.

Staff within Research Professionals have significant expertise in delivering and enabling the growth of strategic programmes of work, including management, financial strategy, building teams, policy development and delivery, external partner relationship building and investment, co-creating training and development activities, and collaboratively working towards implementing the vision and long-term strategy.

Find out more about job families for Research Professionals, and explore potential opportunities to seek out for personal and professional development, transferable skills against each role, and an overview of the UCL Ways of Working.

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Impact

Work collaboratively across UCL and beyond to embed, enable and demonstrate the societal, economic, cultural and policy impact of research, strengthening the university's research excellence and public benefit.

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Doctoral Training Entities

Provide funded, cohort-based doctoral programmes that combine research excellence, professional development and strategic collaboration to deliver an outstanding doctoral experience aligned with national research priorities.