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Leading without a crown: a journey into horizontal leadership 
Leading without a crown: a journey into horizontal leadership
Alys Kay, Senior Researcher Developer, looks at the benefits and challenges of adopting a horizontal leadership model.
Posted on: 28 January 2025
Team-led research: Exploring inclusive leadership with Thrive
Team-led research: Exploring inclusive leadership with Thrive
Research teams are increasingly exploring new approaches to leadership, moving beyond traditional Principal Investigator (PI)-centred models towards more inclusive, team-led structures. This shift aims to foster a collaborative, diverse, and innovative research culture.
Posted on: 17 December 2024
Thrive: sharing insights to build more inclusive and collaborative leadership structures
Thrive: sharing insights to build more inclusive and collaborative leadership structures
Alys Kay, Senior Research Developer (Leadership) on the Thrive project explains how her interview work is yielding important information that is helping to shape our understanding of the challenges and opportunities for positive, inclusive research culture.
Posted on: 22 October 2024
Thrive: One year on
Thrive: One year on
Professor Georgina Endfield, APVC for the Research Environment and Postgraduate Research at the University of Liverpool, looks back at what Thrive has achieved in its first year.
Posted on: 16 September 2024
Thrive as part of Research Leadership Development Programme (RLDP) 
Thrive as part of Research Leadership Development Programme (RLDP)
In this blog, Dr Ireen Litvak-Zur, Senior Consultant, Research at Advance HE, talks about the similarities between Advance HE’s Research Leadership Development Programme and Thrive.
Posted on: 20 May 2024
Introducing Mission: a pilot responsive mode funding opportunity
Introducing Mission: a pilot responsive mode funding opportunity
Jaideep Gupte, Director of Research, Strategy and innovation at AHRC and Professor Georgina Endfield tell us a little more about Thrive and how you can join us in exploring our new approach.
Posted on: 14 May 2024
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Spotlight on… team convening
Carlee Gilbert works at the University of Liverpool in the Strategic Planning Insights Team as a Data Analyst. Here she tells us about her experience of team convening and how working collaboratively brought benefits to a project.
Posted on: 19 February 2024
Introducing Thrive with Professor Georgina Endfield
Introducing Thrive with Professor Georgina Endfield
Professor Georgina Endfield, APVC for the Research Environment at the University of Liverpool, is a project co-leader of the Thrive project. Read on to hear her tell us in her own words about this exciting project:
Posted on: 16 October 2023