The Ethos Forum Podcast

In this episode Professor Caroline McMillen discusses the concept of ‘scalable excellence’. It has now become a strategic imperative for research leaders to move beyond advancing the thinking in their discipline to scaling up the impacts of this excellence way beyond the university. Audio credit: AShamaluevMusicPro

The senior researchers that so many younger academics look to for ‘people leadership’ and ‘career leadership’ are often inadequate to the task. This lack of appropriate support may cause many research careers to flat line. For these senior researchers to move from being a ‘leading researcher’ to a ‘research leader’ requires a suit of skills often not developed in universities. Unfortunately, less...

The path from passionate researcher to a leader in the research environment is not always obvious or straight forward. “Your research career will be over if you accept this leadership role” is often heard. But what is the nuance behind this simple and sometimes inaccurate statement? Audio credit: AShamaluevMusicPro