The fundamentals underpinning these group sessions are to help understand each person’s behavioural approach, build self awareness and build a holistic picture with their technical skills, experience, and aspirations. They will be able to understand their preferred career route and best contribution within a research team, organisation, and the wider community which will, in most cases, make them more productive in their final year (Degree, Masters or PhD) and during their post doctoral research. This approach is relevant for all PhD students & PDRAs, as well as those who have just joined industry, although the principle focus is the bioindustry. 

Participants will learn how to build engagement with industry whether they want to join industry or build industry collaborations and help those new to the industry to make good progress in early years. This process is underpinned by a behavioural profiling tool. The profile highlights working strengths and limitations, preferred team role, and starts thinking around ‘what do I do next?’. 

The first session (MFP1) introduces the profiling and the context of personality within career choices building personal depth into their thinking about their options. The second session (MFP2) helps determine a personal approach to building collaborative skills and accelerating leadership potential. Most delegates will want a 1:1 session to ask very specific questions - they will be offered this after session two and it is usually scheduled within 2-4 weeks.

Often a cohort is funded by the students or PDRs host institution or employer as the employer realises their success will help the institutions impact and employability rating. Clients have included:

• Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA)

• University of Oxford

• Resilience Centre of Excellence and previously the ATSTN network

• BEST - formerly the BioProNET STARS programme