The University offers a wide range of development opportunities.

Since 2017, ECS have run annual Promotion Workshops for staff, which prove extremely popular. They offer guidelines for staff on how to plan their career and what to focus on when applying for promotion. The workshop was introduced by Dorota A. Sikorska, Executive Officer, who runs the workshop in collaboration with Professor Paul Lewin, Head of ECS and Professor Neil White, ECS Senior Mentor. Since 2019, there is a special session exclusively for women staff.

ECS has offered a range of training courses for staff and students to complement university provision since August 2018. Courses have been sourced by Professor Neil White and Dorota A. Sikorska. In 2019, ECS introduced Education Induction for teaching staff, which is run by Professor Paolo Rapisarda, Deputy Head of School for Education. General Induction and Research Induction sessions are being developed and will be introduced over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year. To find out more about professional development opportunities in ECS, contact Neil (nmw@ecs.soton.ac.uk) or Dorota (dask1n11@soton.ac.uk).