The Researcher Development Partnership provides bespoke learning programmes and strategic support to universities, researchers and education providers

Our new 204/2025 GEDI catalogue: available to download now!

Our new 204/2025 GEDI catalogue: available to download now!

How can we help?

  • Are your students just starting their PhDs or ready to submit and develop their careers? We offer training that supports a PhD throughout the whole journey - from how to get started and understanding the process, how to write(!), how to collaborate and work with others and how to manage their workload and wellbeing. We provide training and support tailored to your organisational needs, but also run programmes that help you fulfil your requirements under the RDF.

    To find out how we can support you to engage and develop your PhD students just get in touch with Matt who’ll be happy to help you develop a plan, a programme, or simply run the course you already know you need.

  • We deliver a range of training programmes to support Postdocs and ECRs. These include Leadership & collaborative research; Writing for International Publication; Project Management and Wellbeing. We deliver both bespoke training to respond to your identified needs, within your team or department, and crucially, deliver programmes which support the Researcher Development Framework (RDF) and help you achieve your targets within this. We recognise the time challenges facing Postdocs and ECRs and can adapt many of our courses to fit busy and full schedules. For an informal chat to see how we can help contact Matt who will be happy to work with you find the right solutions.

  • We provide gender and equality training as well as gender consultancy. We have a number of gender courses including introductions to gender and equality, research and gender, leadership and gender as well as courses to engage men with gender issues. We regularly develop individualised courses to suit the needs of your institution, your students and employees.

    Our consultancy work supports organisations to understand the gender issues they may face - both visible and invisible. We develop, train and undertake gender audits, support organisations to create materials and resources and help you to engage stakeholders and influence others.

    To talk about how we can support your organisation towards gender equality get in touch with Sharon who will be happy to help.

  • Sometimes, you just don’t know what you don’t know! We are available to talk with researchers, administrators, team leaders, project managers, professors - anyone who works in academia or research who wants to support their students, engage their team, improve the research or outputs or simply comply with legislation or guidelines. We can help you find solutions to the questions you’re not even sure how to ask. Message us at info@therdp.org and we’ll get back to you to discuss your challenges.

Sharon, you must be some kind of genius! How you have cut through the complexity of these programmes to provide a unified solution, is nothing short of a miracle.
— Ana, Gender Adviser, British Council
Matt has a way of working with groups where he encourages discussion and observes. Then, when he thinks it has fulfilled its aim, he steps in and works his magic.
— Stine, Project Manager, Aarhus Universitet
I must say working with the RDP this academic year was a great experience. Your expertise, dedication and flexible, generous working style is so helpful and valuable to students and greatly fortified our development programme offer.
— Sandra, RD Manager, University of Liverpool