Dr Kay Guccione

Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development (Research Services)

email: Kay.Guccione@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Biography

In July 2022 I took up the post of Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development, and in 2024 became Co-Director of the Lab for Academic Culture, at the University of Glasgow.

Since finishing my postdoc (Molecular Biology) and starting my career as a Researcher Development Professional in 2010, I have developed specialisms and research interests in mentoring, research supervisor development and research community building – anything that revolves around a good quality conversation, and the making of a positive research culture.

In 2018 I was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of my impact in this area, and this is where my work at UoG focuses. I am a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Masters qualified Leadership Coach. I am a trustee on the UK Council for Graduate Education Executive Board and have recently worked with them to develop a Recognised Associate Supervisor Award.

Contact me to:

Find out more about the work of the Research Culture & Researcher Development Teams, how we work, or our areas of expertise, and how we link to other key portfolios and teams;
Discuss the portfolio of development initiatives for PGRs, Research Staff, and Research Supervisors and Managers;
Discuss our work to build and maintain a positive research culture, and what this means at the University of Glasgow.
Discuss a research collaboration, or joint PGR Supervision.

Research interests

Read it today:

The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education - blog and book series
The Supervising PhDs blog
Thriving in Part Time Doctoral Study
Coaching and Mentoring as a mechanism for Academic Development
How graduates perceive the ‘value’ of their Doctorate, and what makes doing a PhD ‘worth it’ to the individual? Read paper 1, and paper 2 on this topic

Papers in preparation (contact me for further information)

Finding the Boundaries of Practice in Postgraduate Peer-Mentoring.
The unique contribution of Research Staff to PhD Supervision: a model for Supervisory development.
Enacting Ethical Practice as a New Postgraduate Researcher
Using a 'Feasible Utopias' Approach to Imagine Cultures of Creativity and Experimentation in Doctoral Education

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2025

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2025) A whole culture approach to doctoral education. In: Creaton, Jane and Gower, Owen (eds.) Prioritising the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Doctoral Researchers: Promoting Healthy Research Cultures. Routledge, pp. 73-90. ISBN 9781003403210 (doi: 10.4324/9781003403210-5)

2024

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Bonner-Evans, Charlotte (2024) "The Approach Breaks Down Barriers.” Academic-professional Mentoring Partnerships that shift the Power Differential through Mutual Third-space Alliance. Society for Research into Higher Education International Conference, Nottingham, UK, 6-9 December 2024.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Bonner-Evans, Charlotte (2024) “The Approach Breaks Down Barriers.” Academic-professional Mentoring Partnerships that Shift the Power Differential through Mutual Third-space Alliance. Researcher Education and Development Scholarship International Conference, 10 October 2024.

Elliot, Dely Lazarte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Daley, Rob, Blackmore, Chris, Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Ohlsen, Sally (2024) Two sides of the Same Coin? Examining Doctoral Scholars’ and Supervisors’ Mental Health & Well-being. 33rd International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, 21-26 July 2024. (Unpublished)

2023

Elliot, Dely L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Bengtsen, Søren S. E. and Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (Eds.) (2023) Developing Researcher Independence Through the Hidden Curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783031428746

Elliot, Dely L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Bengtsen, Søren S. E. and Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2023) Introduction. In: Elliot, Dely L., Bengtsen, Søren S.E. and Guccione, K. (eds.) Developing Researcher Independence Through the Hidden Curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783031428746 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-42875-3_1)

Elliot, Dely L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Bengtsen, Søren S.E. (2023) Concluding thoughts. In: Elliot, Dely L., Bengtsen, Søren S. E. and Guccione, K. (eds.) Developing Researcher Independence Through the Hidden Curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783031428746 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-42875-3_24)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388, Gourlay, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5025-6213 and Bonner-Evans, Charlotte (2023) Mentoring as a Mechanism for Leading Culture Change. Researcher Education and Development Scholarship International Conference 2023, Online, 11 October 2023.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Stefanatos, Rhoda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9072-7224 (2023) A beginner’s guide to supervising a PhD researcher. Biochemist, 45(5), pp. 11-15. (doi: 10.1042/bio_2023_140)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Rainford, Jon (2023) Navigating Your Part Time Doctorate. SRHE Postgraduate Issues Network Meeting, London, UK, 9 September 2023.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2023) Keynote Presentation: The UKCGE Associate Research Supervisor Recognition Programme. UKCGE International Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK, 3-4 July 2023.

Rainford, Jon and Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2023) Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study: Integrating Work, Life and Research. Series: Insider guides to success in academia. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781032109657 (doi: 10.4324/9781003223931)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2023) Drawing Your Own Route Map: Adding Value to the PhD. DigiTaL Doctoral Summer School 2023, Lüneburg, Germany, 12-14 June 2023.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Rainford, Jon (2023) Navigating the Part Time Doctorate. UKCGE Mental Health and Wellbeing of Part Time and Distance Learning Postgraduate Researchers, London, UK, 7 June 2023.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Bryan, Billy (2023) Worth doing but not worth having? The influence of personal aspirations and career expectations on the value of a doctorate. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 14(1), pp. 83-98. (doi: 10.1108/SGPE-02-2022-0012)

Elliot, D.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Ohlsen, S., Guccione, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388, Daley, R.A. and Blackmore, C. (2023) “The PhD is a personal individual struggle … but you don’t have to struggle alone”: Supervisors’ perspectives of international scholars’ well-being. In: Edwards, M., Martin, A. and Ashkanasy, N. (eds.) Handbook of Academic Mental Health. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. (In Press)

2022

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Cunningham, Catriona (2022) Leading learning and teaching in a crisis. In: Nolan, Sam and Hutchinson, Steve (eds.) Leading Innovation and Creativity in University Teaching: Implementing Change at the Programme Level. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032026367 (doi: 10.4324/9781003190745-15)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) Foreword: when our postgraduate researchers choose to teach, we should show their value. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 2(1), pp. 3-10.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) Finding the Reasonable Boundaries of Peer Mentoring. Student Mental Health Research Network 2022, Online, 25 January 2022.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) Landscapes and narratives of PhD by publication [Preface]. In: Chong, Sin Wang and Johnson, Neil (eds.) Landscapes and Narratives of PhD by Publication. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783031048944 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04895-1)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) What does a Thesis Mentor do? And how can we support them to do it well? CollectivED, 14, pp. 58-60.

2021

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2021) 'I never thought of this work as supervision, but it definitely is!’ Becoming aware of supervision work as an early career researcher. Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference 2021, 6- 10 December 2021. (Unpublished)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Blackmore, Chris (2021) Online communities that support postgraduate wellbeing. In: Sheldon, Julie and Sheppard, Victoria (eds.) Online Communities for Doctoral Researchers and their Supervisors: Building Engagement with Social Media. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367224097 (doi: 10.4324/9780429274749-5)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2021) Thesis Supervision: the educational value of postdocs in supporting research writing. UCL Institute of Education Symposium: Doctoral education and its purposes: research training for a changing world, Online, 9 June 2021. (Unpublished)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Hutchinson, Steve (2021) Coaching and Mentoring for Academic Development. Series: Surviving and thriving in academia. Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781789739107

2020

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2020) Doctoral Supervision — now you see it, now you don’t. Researcher Education and Development Scholarship conference (REDS 2020), Online, 15 October 2020. (Unpublished)

Daley, R., Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388, Elliot, Dely L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Blackmore, C. and Ohlsen, S. (2020) Developing a toolkit to support supervisors to enhance PGR wellbeing. UK Council for Graduate Education Annual Conference (UKCGE 2020), (online), 29 Jun - 3 Jul 2020. (Unpublished)

Elliot, Dely Lazarte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Bengsten, Soren S.E., Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Kobayashi, Sofie (2020) The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783030414962 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-41497-9)

Bengsten, Soren S.E., Elliot, Dely Lazarte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Kobayashi, Sofie (2020) The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education. [Website]

Blackmore, Chris, Ohlsen, Sally, Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Elliot, Dely ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719 (2020) Are you ok?’ Mental health and wellbeing of international doctoral students in the UK: an investigation of supervisors’ understanding and existing support provision. Project Report. UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA), London.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2020) The value of writing imaginatively in unsticking stuck PhD thesis-writers. Doctoral Writing Special Interest Group (SIG), Online (Unpublished)

2019

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2019) Mentors matter! Building a mentoring culture throughout academic practice. Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference 2019, Newport, Wales, 11 - 13 December 2019. (Unpublished)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Elliot, Dely ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719 (2019) How much do we appreciate international postgraduate researcher’s psychological wellbeing? Perspectives from their first port of call. Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference 2019, Newport, Wales, 11 - 13 December 2019. (Unpublished)

Blackmore, C., Elliot, D.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Ohlsen, S., Daley, R. and Guccione, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2019) ‘Are you OK?’ Mental Health and Wellbeing of International Doctoral Students in the UK: an Investigation of Supervisors’ Understanding and Existing Support Provision. UKCISA Annual Conference, Keele, UK, 03-05 Jul 2019. (Unpublished)

Blackmore, C., Ohlsen, S., Guccione, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388, Elliot, D.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719 and Daley, R. (2019) ‘Are you OK?’ Mental Health and Wellbeing of International Doctoral Students in the UK: an Investigation of Supervisors’ Understanding and Existing Support Provision. 1st International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers, Brighton, UK, 16-17 May 2019. (Unpublished)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2019) Supervising PhDs Blog. [Website]

2018

Elliot, D.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719, Guccione, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Bengsten, S.S.E. (2018) Feasible Utopias in Doctoral Education: a Research Based Model for Expanded Doctoral Pedagogy. Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference, Newport, Wales, 05-07 Dec 2018. (Unpublished)

Elliot, D.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719 and Guccione, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2018) Professional writing: What is the range? What are the challenges? EARLI SIG 24 Biennial Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 Sept-02 Oct 2018. (Unpublished)

Guccione, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388, Elliot, D.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-5719 and Bengsten, S.S.E. (2018) Reimagining the Doctorate: 'Feasible Utopias’ for Expanded Doctoral Education. Society for Research into Higher Education Postgraduate Issues Network Seminar, London, UK, 29 June 2018. (Unpublished)

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2018) Aren’t they all leaving anyway? What's the value of mentoring early career research staff? Project Report. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, London.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2018) Can I speak to you in confidence? How tutoring can play a role in creating trusting research cultures. Project Report. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, London.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2018) Trust Me! Building and breaking professional trust in doctoral student-supervisor relationships. Project Report. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, London, United Kingdom.

Bryan, Billy and Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2018) Was it worth it? A qualitative exploration of graduate perceptions of doctoral value. Higher Education Research and Development, 37(6), pp. 1124-1140. (doi: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1479378)

2017

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Wellington, Jerry (2017) Taking Control of Writing Your Thesis: a Guide to Get You to the End. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781474282956

Daley, Rob, Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Hutchinson, Steve (Eds.) (2017) 53 Ways to Enhance Researcher Development. Series: Professional and higher education. Frontinus Ltd: Newmarket. ISBN 9781907076954

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Cheeseman, Matthew (2017) The Journal of Imaginary Research. [Website]

2016

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2016) More than lucky? Exploring self-leadership in the development and articulation of research independence. Project Report. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, London.

This list was generated on Sat Jul 5 18:18:56 2025 BST.

Number of items: 47.

Articles

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) Foreword: when our postgraduate researchers choose to teach, we should show their value. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 2(1), pp. 3-10.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) What does a Thesis Mentor do? And how can we support them to do it well? CollectivED, 14, pp. 58-60.

Books

Book Sections

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers

Conference or Workshop Item

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Rainford, Jon (2023) Navigating Your Part Time Doctorate. SRHE Postgraduate Issues Network Meeting, London, UK, 9 September 2023.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2023) Drawing Your Own Route Map: Adding Value to the PhD. DigiTaL Doctoral Summer School 2023, Lüneburg, Germany, 12-14 June 2023.

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2022) Finding the Reasonable Boundaries of Peer Mentoring. Student Mental Health Research Network 2022, Online, 25 January 2022.

Website

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 (2019) Supervising PhDs Blog. [Website]

Guccione, Kay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-9388 and Cheeseman, Matthew (2017) The Journal of Imaginary Research. [Website]

This list was generated on Sat Jul 5 18:18:56 2025 BST.

Grants

2024 Student Experience Strategy (Co-Lead) English Language Support for Doctoral Writing, building community and confidence. £120,968
2023 Wellcome Institutional Funding for Research Culture (Lead) An inclusive framework for research leadership: testing a new model for creating culture change £3,025,942.
2020 AdvanceHE Small Development Project (Co-I) Peer Networks: Evaluation of effectiveness and identification of best practice. £4,000
2019 Visiting Scholar in Doctoral and Supervisor Development. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. £8,500
2018 (Co-Investigator) Mental health and wellbeing of international doctoral students in the UK: An investigation of supervisors’ understanding and existing support provision UKCISA £9,774
2018 Senate Fellows' Fund (PI) A photo elicitation initiative supporting transiting to PhD £1000
2017 Senate Fellows' Fund (PI) Defining the boundaries of PGR-Peer Mentoring for researcher wellbeing £1000
2017 Advance HE  2 x Case Study Grants (PI): (1) Aren't they all Leaving Anyway? What's the value of mentoring for Early Career Researchers? (2) Can I speak to you in confidence? How can PGR tutoring play a role in creating cultures of good doctoral supervision. £1,630
2016 HEFCE Catalyst Fund: (Co-I) Raising Awareness, Raising Aspiration: A Targeted Personal Tutoring Support Programme for Narrowing Gaps in Student Achievement and Ambition (The University of Sheffield, King's College London and the University of Portsmouth) £500,000
2016 Advance HE Small Development Project (PI): Trust me! Academic leadership behaviours in creating ‘quality’ doctoral supervision relationships. £4,966
2014 Advance HE Small Development Project (PI): More than lucky? Exploring self-leadership in the development and articulation of research independence. £5,604
2013 Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF, University of Sheffield) (Co-I), Industrial Knowledge Forge programme, £21,500
2012 EPSRC Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Fund (University of Sheffield) (Co-I), Industrial Knowledge Forge researcher-industry career pathways programme, £76,873
2011 Research Councils UK Roberts' Fund for Researcher Development (University of Sheffield) (Co-I). Establishing ‘Think Ahead’ researcher development in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health. £94,739

Teaching

My teaching is research education focused, and can be understood as having strategic impact on the enhancement of doctoral student learning and doctoral learning environments, and in parallel, on the enhancement of academic practice through the development of supervisors, research leadership, and through the career structures and policies which enable this development.

In 2018 I won a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of my international reputation and strategic impact. I was also the first winner to gain this recognition in the field of Researcher Education.

In 2019 I was awarded Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. This recognises "those who can demonstrate sustained and effective strategic leadership of higher education practice, with extensive impact on high-quality learning, beyond their institution".

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

2018: National Teaching Fellowship (AdvanceHE)
2018: Paul Webbley Award for Research (UK Council for International Student Affairs)
2019: Senate Award for Sustained Excellence and Leadership in Learning & Teaching (University of Sheffield)

Editorial boards

2023: Higher Education Research and Development
2022: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
2020: Teaching in Higher Education

Professional & learned societies

2022: Member, Association of Research Managers and Administrators
2019: Principal Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2016: Member, European Association for Research into Learning & Instruction (EARLI)
2016: Member, Society for Research in Higher Education
2014: Member, Association for Coaching

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