Planning for your Research Leave: A Faculty Roundtable – May 28, 2025
Session Description
May 28 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS) presents a faculty roundtable focused on topics related to planning for your research leave (e.g., six-month, one-year, residential fellowship). In this roundtable session, faculty speakers will share their experiences and guidance on creating a generative and regenerative research leave; how to plan and adapt for unexpected changes encountered during research leave (e.g., changing research questions, access to research objects, archives or libraries); and how to prepare to return to teaching and service at the end of your research leave. Additionally, speakers will address how to set boundaries on service work whilst on leave and how to leverage project management tools to support research productivity and tracking and ensure your research leave is a leave.
The topics covered in this roundtable are aligned to CRIS’ Researcher Development Framework Leadership and Personal Effectiveness and will specifically address faculty professional development plans, emphasize self-management tools and demonstrate how to embed structures of group accountability that can support having a productive and regenerative research leave.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the webinar participants will be able to:
- Compare different disciplinary norms of research leaves including expectations of research outputs, supervision, and service work
- Understand and implement tools for how to plan and defend research time while on research leave
- Establish short- and long-term goals that are adaptable and maintainable during a research leave
- Locate different project management strategy supports from various UofT academic units to support research leave goals and objectives
