Skip to main
University-wide Navigation

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs provides a variety of programs that are either ongoing or offered once a year to enhance the career and professional development of postdocs during their training at UK. 

Career Enhancement Groups

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs coordinates and facilitates a variety of career enhancement groups where postdocs can connect, grow, and achieve a common personal goal.

Career Enhancement Groups

Mentoring Training

Based on the Mentoring Up for Postdoctoral Trainees curriculum developed by the Center for Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, this training program is designed to guide postdocs through some of the challenges and concerns that mentees and mentors encounter in mentoring relationships.

Mentoring Training

Fundamentals of Funding

Developed in collaboration with the Proposal Development Office, this training is designed to teach postdocs life long habits for continuously exploring the funding landscape, develop a funding strategy, draft an original idea, and learn the importance that others play in getting funded. 

Fundamentals of Funding

Leadership Training

Developed by colleagues at Washington University, this training is intended to introduce postdocs to the interpersonal and psychological foundations of leading teams and managing people. Importantly, it is tailored to postdocs in that it focuses on how to lead without authority (which is typical for postdocs!). 

Leadership Training

Career Exploration

Based on expert knowledge from one of the founders of myIDP, this training uses self-assessment, reading about careers, informational interviews, and goal setting to explore careers, identify a professional objective, and create a plan to transition to a successful career.  

 

Career Exploration

SEC Emerging Scholars

The SEC Emerging Scholars Career Preparation Workshop is designed to provide professional development and networking opportunities for a limited number of doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who are considering careers in higher education. 

SEC Emerging Scholars