Résumé for Researchers template tool

Résumé for Researchers

Below is the suggested structure for the Résumé for Researchers tool.

Personal details

Provide your personal details, your education, key qualifications and relevant positions you have

held.

Module 1 – How have you contributed to the generation of knowledge?

Module 2 – How have you contributed to the development of individuals?

This module can be used to explain how you have contributed to the generation of new ideas and

hypotheses and which key skills you have used to develop ideas and test hypotheses. It can be

used to highlight how you have communicated on your ideas and research results, both written and

verbally, the funding you have won and any awards that you have received. It can include a small

selection of outputs, with a description of why they are of particular relevance and why they are

considered in the context of knowledge generation. Outputs can include open data sets, software,

publications, commercial, entrepreneurial or industrial products, clinical practice developments,

educational products, policy publications, evidence synthesis pieces and conference publications

that you have generated. Where outputs have a DOI please only include this.

This module can be used to highlight expertise you provided which was critical to the success of a

team or team members including project management, collaborative contributions, and team

support. It can include your teaching activities, workshops or summer schools in which you were

involved (for undergrads, grads and post-grads as well as junior colleagues), and the supervision

of students and colleagues. It can be used to mention mentoring of members in your field and

support you provided to the advancement of colleagues, be it junior or senior. It can be used to

highlight the establishment of collaborations, from institutional (maybe interdisciplinary) to

international. It can be used to describe where you exerted strategic leadership, how you shaped

the direction of a team, organisation, company or institution.

Module 3 – How have you contributed to the wider research community?

Module 4 – How have you contributed to broader society?

This module can include various activities you have engaged in to progress the research

community. It can be used to mention commitments including editing, reviewing, refereeing,

committee work and your contributions to the evaluation of researchers and research projects. It

can be used to mention the organisation of events that have benefited your research community. It

can highlight contributions to increasing research integrity, and improving research culture (gender

equality, diversity, mobility of researchers, reward and recognition of researchers’ various activities).

It can be used to mention appointments to positions of responsibility such as committee

membership and corporate roles within your department, institution or organisation, and recognition

by invitation within your sector.

This module can include examples of societal engagement and knowledge exchange. It can include

engagement with industry and the private sector. It can be used to mention engagement with the

public sector, clients and the broader public. It can be used to highlight positive stakeholder

feedback, inclusion of patients in processes and clinical trials, and other impacts across research,

policy, practice and business. It can be used to mention efforts to collaborate with particular societal

or patient groups. It can be used to highlight efforts to advise policy-makers at local, national or

international level and provide information through the press and on social media.

Personal statement

Additions

Provide a personal statement that reflects on your overarching goals and motivation for the activities

in which you have been involved.

Mention career breaks, secondments, volunteering, part-time work and other relevant experience

(including in time spent in different sectors) that might have affected your progression as a

researcher.