Previous Fora / 2013
PEARCE, Ellen
CEO, Career Development Organization
Ellen Pearce is
Director of Vitae and CEO of CRAC: the Career Development Organisation which
manages Vitae. She is responsible for the strategy, work and activities of
Vitae which aims to enhance the quality and output of the research base,
through supporting the training and development of world-class researchers.
Working in the area of personal, professional and career development for
researchers since 2002, Ellen has led several key initiatives in the last few
years. Currently, she is a member of the NERC Training Advisory Group and the
EURAXESS steering group; and leads the process for UK institutions to gain the
European HR Excellence in Research Award, now held by over 80 UK organisations.
She has worked on the ‘What do researchers do?' publication series, co-authored the ‘HR strategies for Researchers: A review of the HR Excellence in Research Award implementation activities across Europe', ‘Enterprise at work: exploring intrapreneurship in researcher development' and ‘The visibility of researcher development in UK higher education institutions' strategies'.
She has led work funded by the EC Lifelong learning programme to enhance doctoral employability through internationally applicable training and development support and university careers services and EURAXESS funded work to explore the experiences and training needs of internationally mobile researchers.