Fiona McBride is a Senior Researcher Developer within The Academy at the University of Liverpool, where her work focuses on Prosper – an ambitious and innovative model of postdoc career development designed to unlock postdocs’ potential to thrive across multiple career pathways, both within and beyond academia. She oversees the Prosper team on a day-to-day basis, and is responsible for both its UKRI-funded rollout to the wider UK HEI sector, as well as embedding the model within the University of Liverpool.
Fiona has played a key role in Prosper from its start in 2019 as a Research England Development (RED) fund project, co-ordinating its pilot cohorts, developing and co-creating the Prosper model and resources. She is a former postdoc, holding a doctorate in Chemistry (specialising in surface science).