Supporting Research

VITAE: supporting research

Vitae is a national organisation, funded by Research Councils UK, to provide support for the career development of researchers.  It is a major source of guidance for many areas of research policy and practice, and for research managers and supervisors as well as researchers.

For information about Vitae please visit their website here|

Supervising Research

Vitae is also a valuable source of guidance for many areas of research policy and practice, particularly for research managers and supervisors, as well as researchers.

For more information about support available to research managers and supervisors please see the relevant VITAE pages available here|

There are also a number of useful articles hosted on the University of Surrey website relating to good practice for research supervisors. Links to these and other articles are available here|

The Research Concordat

Introduced in 2008, the Research Concordat outlines a set of principles for universities to guide their management and development of research staff.  Information, including a series of very useful briefings about the Concordat, can be found on the Vitae website. 

Access to these pages can be found here|

Careers for Researchers

Vitae also provides access to some excellent articles, guidance and a number of useful links relating to careers advice for researchers.

For more information please visit the Vitae careers pages available here|

Library support for researchers

The Library offers a range of services designed to help researchers.  Staff researchers can find this information through the staff pages of the Library website or may wish to visit the postgraduate researchers’ web page which contains much useful information. 

Full details for postgraduate researchers can be found here|.