ESRC Leadership Fellow: Building Leadership Capacities for the Twenty-First Century

ESRC的2015年战略计划包含一个承诺，即“发展社会科学领导能力”。这一承诺承认科学领导的性质和规模正在发生变化的方式，以及社会科学在社会中的潜在作用和相关性从未如此之大。该奖学金的目的是建立在2017年进行的内部研究的基础上，并将其发展成为一个雄心勃勃的愿景和战略，使ESRC在国内和国际上都处于这一议程的最前沿。公共资助的研究和开发领域的更广泛变化以及研究投资可能变得更大，更复杂和越来越雄心勃勃的方式推动了将在该研究金下进行的研究的需求。新的领导技能-例如，跨学科意识，财务管理，沟通技巧，与非学术合作伙伴和合作领导模式的合作-将变得越来越重要。因此，这项研究的主要重点将是：（1）审查现有的领导力支持框架;（2）查明国家和国际两级在提供最佳做法方面的差距和实例;（3）提出一套建议，这些建议将联合收割机结合起来，提供一个创新和雄心勃勃的领导力发展战略。这项研究的关键要素将包括关注“职业之旅”以及如何在不同职业阶段提供和激励领导技能和能力;强调在机构改革的同时实现积极的文化变革;并明确考虑发展领导能力的新战略如何提供积极的协同作用，以应对高等教育中的平等和多样性挑战。2017年7月，UKRI首席执行官Mark Walport爵士概述了他对新融资格局的愿景，并强调需要“激励和奖励大胆，雄心和敏捷，积极激发想象力和创新”。实现这一愿景将需要在社会科学领域采取新的领导方法，该奖学金的目的是与合作伙伴合作，确定这一方法的核心组成部分以及如何实现。

The ESRC's Strategic Plan 2015 contains a commitment to 'develop capability for social science leadership'. This commitment recognises both the manner in which the nature and scale of scientific leadership are changing, and how the potential role and relevance of the social sciences in society has never been greater. The aim of this fellowship is to build upon internal research that was undertaken in 2017 and develop this into an ambitious vision and strategy that places the ESRC at the forefront of this agenda both domestically and internationally. The need for the research that will be conducted under this fellowship is driven by broader changes in the publicly funded research and development landscape and the manner in which research investments are likely to become larger, more complex and increasingly ambitious. New leadership skills - for example, in relation to inter-disciplinary awareness, financial management, communication skills, working with non-academic partners and modes of collaborative leadership - will become of increasing significance. Therefore the main focus of this research will be to: (1) review existing leadership support frameworks; (2) identity gaps in provision and examples of best practice, both nationally and internationally; and (3) to come forward with a set of recommendations that combine to offer an innovative and ambitious leadership development strategy. Critical elements of this research will include a focus on 'the professional journey' and how leadership skills and competencies are provided and incentivised at different career stages; an emphasis on achieving positive cultural change alongside institutional reforms; and also explicit consideration of how a new strategy for developing leadership capacities might offer positive synergies to address equality and diversity challenges within higher education. In July 2017 Sir Mark Walport, the chief executive of UKRI, outlined his vision of the new funding landscape and underlined the need 'to stimulate and reward audacity, ambition and agility, where imagination and innovation are actively encouraged'. Achieving this vision will require a fresh approach to leadership within the social sciences and the aim of this fellowship is to work with partners to identify the core components of this approach and how it can be delivered.