#rdaudio by Researcher Development

Last Updated: November 3, 2025
Join the Researcher Development team at the University of Cambridge as we discuss key themes of becoming an efficient professional researcher.From managing your time effectively to building your resilience, each week features a different topic of interest to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers. We're often joined by expert guest speakers.For more ways to engage in researcher development, check out our website: www.rdp.cam.ac.uk.We also have a YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/ResearcherDevelopment.
Research Culture
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Liz Simmonds is Assistant Head of the Postdoc Academy and the University's Institutional Lead for Research Culture. In this episode, she talks to Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team about what research culture is, why it matters to early-career researchers, and the ways in which Cambridge is striving to make changes.

Storytelling
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Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team talks to Emma Baker, journalist and broadcaster, about how to harness the art of great storytelling to effectively communicate your research to a range of non-specialist audiences.

The Public Intellect
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What does it mean to be a public intellectual today? How can PhD students best utilise online platforms such as YouTube to disseminate ideas and engage new audiences? Christian Gilliam from the Researcher Development team and Joram Appel of TimeGhost discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by online platforms to the work of the public intellectual.

Imposter Syndrome
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These days, it's axiomatic that impostor feelings run rife through academia. Dr Tracey Stead, who has twenty years' professional experience in academia and research, shares her views on impostor feelings and full-blown impostor syndrome with Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team, and offers practical tips for managing your inner critic.

Creativity
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Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team interviews Dr Geraint Wyn Story from Cambridge Training Associates about the role of creativity in research work. Geraint explains that creativity is not a gift possessed only by a few but, rather, a skill which anyone can learn and practise.

Crucial Conversations
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We all need to have tricky but important conversations sometimes, especially at work. In this episode, Rach Maggs, a consultant specialising in interpersonal communication, talks to Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team about a particular process of preparing for, and having, crucial conversations.

Blogging
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Journalist, broadcaster, writer, trainer and blogger Simon Hall joins Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team to share some top tips for successful blogging, so that you can share your research with a wide audience.

Raise your Profile Online 5: Online communities
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In our fifth and final episode on 'How to raise your profile online', Sam Byers and Steve Cross take a look at membership and organisation of online communities.

Raise your Profile Online 4: Online meetings & interviews
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In our fourth episode on 'How to raise your profile online', Sam Byers and Steve Cross discuss how we can take everything we've learnt about meeting or interviewing face-to-face and adapt to a world where interviews are held online.

Raise your Profile Online 3: Written word
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In our third episode on ‘How to raise your profile online’, Sam Byers and Steve Cross discuss how to get your ideas 'out and about' in a written form, looking at blogs, magazines and opinion pieces.

Raise your Profile Online 2: Your voice
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In our second episode on 'How to raise your profile online', Sam Byers and Steve Cross discuss how to get your voice out there, become a radio guest or start your own podcast.

Raise your Profile Online 1: Social media
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In the first of five episodes on 'How to raise your profile online', Researcher Developer Sam Byers talks to Dr Steve Cross - public engagement and communications expert - about how researchers use social media and what you can leverage it for.

Managing your Research in an Uncertain World 3: Developing a 'VUCA-proof' mindset
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In our third and final episode on managing your research in uncertainty, Sonja Tomašković and Natacha Wilson discuss how to develop a mindset and approach that is 'VUCA-proof'.

Managing your Research in an Uncertain World 2: Responding to the VUCA environment
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In our second episode on managing your research in uncertainty, Sonja Tomašković and Natacha Wilson consider how we can respond to the VUCA environment.

Managing your Research in an Uncertain World 1: Defining 'uncertain world'
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In our first episode on managing your research in uncertainty, Researcher Developer Sonja Tomašković and Natacha Wilson, founder of Cambridge Insights, consider how we define an 'uncertain world' through the lense of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

Your Future Career Path
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Researcher Developer Sam Byers talks to Lucy Romijn, a Careers Adviser at the University of Cambridge Careers Service, about alternative career paths open to PhD students, and how you can go about exploring these options.

Managing your Time and Motivation 3: Managing our emotions
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In our third and final episode on managing your time and motivation, Sonja Tomašković and Natacha Wilson wrap up their discussion by considering how we can manage our emotions, feelings and mind to maximise our impact in research and beyond.

Managing your Time and Motivation 2: Being 'time affluent' and getting things done
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In our second episode on managing your time and motivation, Sonja Tomašković and Natacha Wilson continue their conversation with a discussion about how we can get control of our time back and get things done with maximum results.

Managing your Time and Motivation 1: Uncovering your habits & routines
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In the first of three episodes on managing your time and motivation, Researcher Developer Sonja Tomašković talks to Natacha Wilson, founder of Cambridge Insights, about how our existing behaviour patterns can impact our productivity.

Working with your Supervisor
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Sam Byers, Christian Gilliam, and Sonja Tomašković - Researcher Developers at the University of Cambridge - discuss productive ways of working with supervisors, with a particular focus on the challenges brought on by working remotely.

Resilience
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Katie D'Arcy (freelance Researcher Development specialist) and Dr Sue Jackson (Researcher Development Coordinator) discuss resilience at a time of uncertainty.

Remote Communication
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Steve Joy (Head of Researcher Development) and Katie D'Arcy (freelance Researcher Development specialist) discuss the challenges and pitfalls of remote communication, and explore some tactics for dealing with them.

Procrastination
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Steve Joy (Head of Researcher Development at the University of Cambridge) interviews Katie D'Arcy (freelance RD specialist) about procrastination: why we do it, and how we can overcome it.

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