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KATIE PERRY

Many researchers, when they've had a prolonged career break away from the workplace, suffer with a huge lack of confidence. They need retraining. It's almost impossible for a researcher to make a really successful return to a research career without some form of help.

Obviously, with the fellowships that we offer, we offer a really tailored programme of guidance, advice, support, mentoring throughout the application process and throughout the fellowship. We also offer training courses during the fellowship. There are four individual training courses.

The fellows that come to us have the opportunity of working with one of our fellowship advisors. They've all undertaken research themselves. Two of the three of them have a family themselves, so they're very well placed to offer really good guidance and advice to people who are wanting to make that sometimes quite large step of returning back to a research career in STEM.