Central support for Chancellor's Fellows

Information and support available for Chancellor's Fellows

Chancellor’s Fellows

Central University Training and Support for Chancellor's Fellows

Active Events:
1:1 Coaching

1:1 coaching offers an opportunity to explore challenges that you are facing within work and identify positive changes that you can make to support you be more effective in your work and career.  This offer is 2 x 1hr coaching sessions. 

Past Events:
Welcome Event (In Person)

An opportunity to meet other new Chancellor’s Fellows from across the institution and hear about central level training and development opportunities that will be running. 

Coffee Morning for Fellows (In Person)

An opportunity to have a hot drink and a pastry and an informal catch up with other Chancellors Fellows.

Working with the University Media Team (Online)

A one-hour online session on how to engage the media in your research and expertise. Covering the support available from within the University, best practice tips for working with the press office and journalists, and examples of when good communications boosted the impact of the University’s research.

Research Leader Programme (In Person)

An opportunity for Chancellor’s Fellows to reflect on leadership requirements within their fellowships – both in terms of leading teams and collaborations – to support the fellows lead projects more effectively, develop their leadership skills, and think about how to strategically make best use of their fellowships. 

Planning and Preparing Research Funding Proposals (In Person)

This session covers planning and discussing your research funding proposal and start writing a structured project plan. There will be a pre-workshop task to facilitate group discussions and feedback during the workshop.

Exploring Collaboration Series (online)

This is a four series programme, which ran from October - December 2025, was designed to equip researchers with the skills, confidence, and tools to lead and sustain effective collaborations.  Each workshop was a standalone but there was themes which built across the workshops for participants who attend all the sessions.  

Academic Mentoring Training (In Person)

The Academic Mentoring session, ran February 2026, and explored what mentoring is (and is not) and how to build developmental relationships to help realise an individual’s potential. It considered the skills of mentoring and moving beyond a simple ‘advice-giving’ model – developing techniques such as consciously designing an alliance, listening, questioning and goal setting that will help you in your role as you develop and manage others. 

Chancellor's Fellows Teams Space

A Chancellor’s Fellows MS Teams space has been created to allow you to communicate and share developments.  If you are a Chancellor's Fellow and would like to be added, please email researcher.development@ed.ac.uk 

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