Career Development

Reaching Your Full Potential

The University offers a range of training and development opportunities, designed to support your skills, knowledge, and behaviours, as well as enhancing your wider career aspirations. Opportunities may include:

  • a 'Welcome to Lincoln' induction session, alongside a supportive induction plan to help you settle into your new role
  • annual academic promotions round
  • engagement groups to share best practice
  • funding to enrol onto a staff apprenticeship (varying levels available), with funds also available for start-ups
  • an inclusive mentoring scheme
  • accredited qualifications for management and leadership
  • funded places on external programmes such as Advance HE Aurora
  • sponsorship of tuition fees for University of Lincoln programmes of study (e.g. undergraduate, postgraduate, or doctorate)
  • full access to our library and academic subject librarians
  • participation in a review and development scheme with the focus on work loading via a model that gives people the time for development and research, taking an holistic view of work life for you as an individual.

Online Training Opportunities

As well as offering in-person training opportunities covering key transferable skills and knowledge sharing, you also have access to a wide range of online learning modules and video tutorials through LinkedIn Learning, which can help you to further develop and strengthen these skills.

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Support at Lincoln

Whatever your new role here at the University of Lincoln, be it working in one of our professional services teams, as an academic, or as a researcher, we are here to help you achieve your full potential.

Please note, some schemes will have a set of criteria/guidance/application process to support prioritising staff and associated budgets.