When she applied to go on the Aurora women’s leadership programme, Dr Juliana Gerard had two goals.
Firstly, she wanted to improve her communications skills. Secondly, she wanted to build her network. And by achieving these, she hoped to develop collaborations with support from research grants.
“The ability to secure grants to support research work is key to career progression within academia,” she said. “That’s why I jumped at the chance of taking part in Aurora.”
Her faith in what the programme could deliver proved to be well-founded and on its final day she got an email confirming she had won a £9,000 grant to improve engagement among volunteer families taking part into her research into children’s language use.
