SERIES 1 WORKSHOP

Navigating Two Worlds

Presented by: Brooke Martin

This workshop gives you a chance to step back from the day-to-day demands of research and reflect on who you are becoming as a researcher and professional. Designed for candidates working across academia and industry, it explores the different expectations, values and ways of working in each setting. It also builds the confidence, resilience and self-awareness needed to work well across both. More than a professional development session, the workshop offers practical insights that you can use straight away. These insights can support your research, collaborations and career planning, whether you see your future in academia, industry, or both.

Brooke Martin

Brooke started her career as a commercial lawyer, specialising in intellectual property law, before moving into the world of deep tech commercialisation and investment. She is an award-winning commercialisation expert, experienced investment committee member, and a Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP). With 20+ years of expertise in research, science, and innovation, working with brilliant minds in the research community, and a decade studying neurodiversity, Brooke co-invented the MINDFLINT framework to make metacognition accessible. What is metacognition? It is the very human ability to think about our own thinking, to understand our own minds, to identify where our thinking flows naturally, and where our greatest leverage lives. Brooke helps people to identify what makes them brilliant and where to invest their time and energy.