Personal and Professional Development

The University is committed to supporting and developing its Faculty and staff. The School of Medicine encourages all Faculty and staff to avail of the training and development opportunities in the University to enhance their personal and career development. A number of these training opportunities are offered online to facilitate remote learning.

Examples of learning and development opportunities include the Newly Appointed Assistant Professor Development Programme specifically for newly appointed members of Faculty, The Aurora Leadership Development Programme for women and those who identify as a woman in academic and professional roles, University Teaching and Learning, Leadership and People Management, Organisation and Time Management, Project Management, Research Skills and Career Development for ‘Post Docs’. For details of all opportunities please visit the UCD People and Development page.

Mentoring to support professional development is available. Each mentee will enter a mentoring relationship with different goals and the role of the mentor is to support that individual in progressing those goals.

Promotion

If you wish to apply or want to learn about promotion in UCD please visit the UCD HR page for information in relation to the various promotion pathways available.