Researcher Development

Researchers working as Brilliant Club tutors support over 16,000 students every year across our programmes. We partner with over 60 universities and DTPs, working with over 400 PGR and ECRs each year.

What’s in it for PGR/ECRs?

A chance to develop leadership skills for inter-sector mobility
Invaluable teaching and research communication experience
Access to valuable third-sector training
Fair pay and professional experience

89% of Tutors agree or strongly agree that working as tutor with The Brilliant Club has helped them to develop transferable pedagogical or training skills for future teaching in higher education.

81% of Tutors agree or strongly agreed that their experience as a Brilliant Club tutor provided evidence that could be useful in a job or fellowship application.

After their first placement with us, 88% of tutors said they were completely or fairly confident with marking work using a university style mark scheme and providing effective feedback.

The public speaking and pedagogical skills I developed through the programme will benefit my academic career and the personal confidence I gained will be beneficial when applying myself to new challenges in the future.
Tutor, The Scholars Programme

Become a partner

There are many benefits to becoming a Researcher Development Partner. These include:

University Civic Engagement

Researchers working with us contribute meaningfully to the local community
They share cutting edge research outside of their institution, developing the next generation’s critical thinking skills and preparing them for their next steps
The Brilliant Club report on local school engagement and student progress

Supporting future PGR Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Our tutor community is more diverse than the wider PGR population, and excellently placed to act as role models to the next generation of researchers
Researchers are supported to decolonise their created curricula
The Brilliant Club report on institution specific PGR demographics, for those researchers involved in the programme, as well as demographics of students worked with

Detailed Evaluation and Impact Data

We share detailed reports on the progress of your researchers
We can also tag all of our university partners on HEAT to support your own access tracking

If you’d like to discuss partnering with us to support your PGR and ECRs, please email us via the button below.

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Work with us

You can share the opportunities we offer with your researchers: if you’d like your researchers to have the opportunity to work with us, please do get in touch with us.
We also offer a series of Researcher Development workshops you can book directly with us by emailing katrina.roberts@thebrilliantclub.org. You can find out more here.