Researchers' transferable skills - a translation
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Project Management
- Financial Management
- Understanding financial systems
- Budgetary control
- Managing people
- Understanding the characteristics of an effective team
- Interpersonal skills within teams
- Leadership
- Motivation
- Team building
- Skills in delegation and support
- Planning
- Planning the work and the allocation of work
- Planning to avoid peak load problems for support staff
- Proposal Writing
- Expertise in writing project proposals
- Quality issues
- Understanding of quality assurance processes
- Conducting regular project reviews - including development of ideas
- Skills in working to deadlines and producing a quality product
- Understanding the Project's Purposes
- Clarity on project context
- Information/Document Management
- Know-How Management
- Construction of databases
- Document Handling
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Personal and Interpersonal
- Networking skills
- Financial management
- Time management
- Assertiveness skills
- Use of Information Technology
- Word processing
- Skills of workload management
- Stress management skills
- Managing your supervisor
- Negotiation and persuasion
- Communication skills
- Managing people
- Team working
- Managing Change
- Handling the Media
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Corporate Management/Business Skills
- Entrepreneurship
- e.g Business start-up awareness
- Technology Transfer
- Protection and Exploitation of IPR
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Research Skills
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Context
- Keeping abreast of current developments/future trends in the research domain
- Maintenance of familiarity with literature and with current practice in the field
- Awareness of research activities of other people in the centre
- Awareness of the wider social and political context of the research
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Strategic
- Clarity of thought
- Ability to distil out the finding of crucial significance from volumes of research data
- Ability to operate across a range of different projects
- Ability to generate high profile, authoritative statements on key issues
- Developing the ability of staff to apply research methods/concepts to new domains
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Research Concepts
- Research strategies
- Ethical issues
- Scientific method - some philosophical considerations
- Philosophies and issues within research
- Hypothesis generating and testing
- The political dimensions of research
- Ethnographic research
- Economic models of research
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Methods
- Bibliographic and reading skills
- Quantitative and IT aspects in research
- Understanding of how to exploit hierarchical databases and use CD-ROMS
- Statistical analysis techniques
- Methodology generating and testing
- Measurement and experimental design
- Analysis of data - hard and soft
- Validation of findings
- Statistical skills
- Qualitative and historical aspects in research
- Working with organisations
- Design and use of questionnaires
- Using questionnaires in organisations
- Survey techniques
- Case study approaches to research
- Computer modelling
- Interviewing and participant observation
- Field work
- Survey methods (interviews, questionnaires, case techniques, action research)
- Econometric methods; psychometric methods
- Linear and multivariate modelling
- Association and grouping analysis techniques
- Qualitative research methods
- Interviewing skills
- Knowledgeable about available software for data analysis
- Acknowledgement of the importance of qualitative skills
- Survey techniques
- Enhancement of qualitative skills e.g. awareness of software packages
- Sound quantitative grasp even if not primarily a quantitative researcher
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Dissemination
- Writing skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to write and present appropriately to different audiences
- Skills in identifying outlets for publication
- Networking skills
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