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or email us at RDFplanner@vitae.ac.uk Vitae has developed the Researcher
Development Framework (RDF) Planner, an
easy-to-use web application, that enables
researchers to work with the comprehensive
Researcher Development Framework to identify
their expertise and capabilities, plan their
professional development, set personal targets
and demonstrate evidence of success.
Importantly the RDF Planner can strengthen
Vitae strategic approaches to researcher development
by enabling researcher development providers
Vitae’s vision is to lead world-class professional and career development of to brand the RDF Planner with their own
researchers. Vitae champions the professional and career development of institutional logos. Links, within the RDF Planner,
postgraduate researchers and research staff in higher education institutions to institutional resources created by researcher
and research institutes. Vitae works in partnership with higher education development providers will ensure that
institutions, research organisations, funders, and national organisations to researchers can identify relevant resources
meet society’s need for high-level skills and innovation and produce quickly and directly. This will be supplemented
world-class researchers. www.vitae.ac.uk by Vitae guidance created specifically for the
RDF Planner. The RDF Planner is ideal for busy
researchers on the go and is available through
Vitae is supported by Research Councils UK (RCUK), any internet enabled device around the world.
managed by CRAC: The Career Development Organisation
and delivered in partnership with regional Hub host universities

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The Researcher Development Framework researcher requires, among other things, directly to researchers
articulates the knowledge, behaviours and communicating work to others, being aware of  the
The RDF Planner enables researcher
attributes of  successful researchers and enables work’s impact and cultivating financial
development providers to Strengthen their
researchers at all stages to aspire to excellence understanding, innovation and entrepreneurship. 
strategic approach to researcher development
through achieving higher levels of  development.
The RDF provides institutions with a through:
The framework is a comprehensive approach to
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expertise and competencies to enable a strategic
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