GRADnet is delighted to be collaborating again with Skillfluence to deliver professional skills courses to SEPnet postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers to help them develop their transferrable skills in the workplace.

Thank you to Dr Hannah Roberts who delivered a 3-hour workshop over two afternoons on 10 & 17 May to help postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers to:

• Set up a main professional social media platform and have an all-star profile using scaffolding templates.

• Consciously expand their network in under 15 minutes per day and become visible.

• Learn how to introduce themselves and follow-up on opportunities using simple easy to follow scripts whilst maintaining integrity.

• Measure and test their progress to ensure the time spent on social media is paying dividends.

Attendees found the workshop "very informative", a "great help" and "incredibly useful".

Hannah is a career coach and professional skills trainer. During her extensive academic and industrial career, she took research from concept to start-up. Since 2018, she has been a qualified and regulated coach; trained in Talent Dynamics profiling. Specialising in team dynamics, career planning, online networking and social media skills, research planning, commercialisation and management tools. Hannah has a particular passion for diversity and inclusion and women's leadership development.

Next year GRADnet will be offering an online 1-day workshop on "Social Media for Researchers" on 7 February 2023. Look out for our 2022-23 Training Programme which will be launched in September 2022.