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Recognising and Celebrating Your Professional Academic Identity Using Coaching Techniques

Recognising and Celebrating Your Professional Academic Identity Using Coaching Techniques

Are you interested in a short development programme to explore and understand your academic identity?

Join us in a unique opportunity to reflect on the experiences that have shaped your practice and create a future vision aligned with your core values and beliefs. Through coaching techniques, this programme will help you:

  • Recognise and celebrate your academic identity
  • Build self-confidence and quiet your inner imposter
  • Learn coaching tools and approaches to enhance your teaching practice and self-coach for ongoing professional development

This course is part of a research project on coaching and academic identity, available to self-identified teaching-focused academics (on either teaching-only or teaching and research contracts) from Brunel University of London and the University of Central Lancashire.

Programme Details:

  • Format: Three live online sessions with reflective activities in between
  • Dates:
    • Friday, 17 January 2025, 10:00-12:00
    • Friday, 7 February 2025, 10:00-12:00
    • Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:00-12:00

Commitment: To be accepted, you must attend all three sessions.

If you’re interested in participating, please contact us for further details. In the meantime, please block out these dates in your calendar.

Please see the flyer for more information.


Presenter: 

  • Dr Emma Gillaspy
  • Sarah Wolfenden

Aimed at

Academic staff

Aims & Objectives

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

  • Recognise and celebrate your academic identity
  • Build self-confidence and quiet your inner imposter
  • Learn coaching tools and approaches to enhance your teaching practice and self-coach for ongoing professional development

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