Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Developing People & Culture

Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Developing People & Culture

Training & Development

Drawing on human flourishing and positive organisational science to develop interactive courses and workshops on a range of topics.

All courses and workshops can be delivered in-person or online as single events, or via a mix of face-to-face and online components for more comprehensive courses.

Please refer to the topics provided below. We can tailor the content and structure to suit specific requirements or groups, such as senior academic leaders, future leaders, early or mid-career academics, and PhD students.

More comprehensive tailored programs can also be offered spanning multiple topics.

Topics

For Leaders

for Teams / Groups

Towards Inclusive Cultures

Developing People

Career Development

Recent Examples

course

Academic Leadership Development courses, 6-session online and bespoke residential options. Co-facilitated with Prof Austen Rainer, Queens Uni Belfast, delivered for Informatics Europe. Broad topics: know & lead ourselves; know & lead others; creating collegial cultures; dealing with challenging conversations

Residential Leadership Development Course, Denmark, May 2024 (organised by ITU Copenhagen, co-facilitated with Austen Rainer)

Training course: ‘Bias training: Towards Remaro ITN Recruitment’, online, Nov 2020, for an EU-funded ITN project

workshop

Workshop: ‘Becoming better together (receiving feedback)’ ETH Zurich University Leadership Programme, Online, 2-hour, April 2023.

Workshop: ‘Developing a coaching mindset to develop researchers’, IMDEA, Half-day in-person, Nov 2023

Workshop

“Diversity in practice”, for COST Network EUGAIN Summer School, June 2023

“You can shape your research identity” Online workshop for COMPASS Academy, Africa, June 2023

“Women at Work: Strategies to navigate bias and discrimination’, Women’s Network, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien, half-day in-person, Nov 2023

“Building a mentoring culture in Informatics: Unpacking mentoring and how to do it in your context”, TU Wien, Half-day in-person, Dec 2022

Becoming better together – learning through mentoring” workshop for Greek ACM-W Chapter, at GEC22, June 2022

Team Cohesion Workshop, Team development for the new Executive Committee of ACM SIGCHI, Nov 2021

workshop

“Knowing who you are as a researcher to craft your career development”, IMDEA Spain, Nov 2023

“Being a better supervisor – doing less to achieve more” In-person, 1-day workshop for Assistant Professors, TU Wien Personnel Development Program, in-person, May 2023

The voices in your head: dealing with the imposter, perfectionist and procrastinator”, TU Wien Personnel Development Program, on-day in-person, May 2024 (upcoming)

Semester course

“From Surviving to Thriving: Crafting your good professional life.” Developed for TU Wien Informatics PhD School as a 3 ECTS course – in-person, Autumn 2021, 2022, 2023

1-day PhD course

“Knowing who you are to draft your career development”, IMDEA, Full-day, in-person, Nov 2023

“Surviving to Thriving for PhD students”, Bristol University, In-person, Summer 2024 (upcoming)

 

Webinar

Thriving as a doctoral student in informatics“, Informatics Europe Career Development Webinar Series, Oct 2021, with Prof Austen Rainer.