The Office for Academic Personnel & Faculty (APF) has gathered resources to support UW-affiliated postdoctoral scholars across a range of topics, from employment and immigration to professional development. Resources include content from across UW and beyond.
Employment at UW
Benefits Administered by UW Human Resources
Postdoctoral scholars’ benefits are administered by UW Human Resources, including health, retirement, work-life, and other employee programs. For postdoc-specific information and contact details, see the UW Human Resources benefits page.
Immigration & Visas
Postdoctoral scholars requiring visa or immigration support can find information, walk-in service hours, and contact details through the International Scholars Operations unit of APF.
Union Resources
For information regarding UAW representation, including the current contract, see UW Human Resources.
Professional Development
Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
Whether you seek to apply your self-discipline to a plan, or are just looking for a prompt to support reflection, an Individual Development Plan might help you approach the next step in your career journey. Given the breadth of disciplines that find their home at UW, we curate IDP options from broad disciplinary groupings to field-specific tools. Here you can find a selection of IDP resources that might apply to your discipline:
- For those in STEM fields, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in partnership with AAAS/Science offers an interactive IDP tool.
- For those in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Graduate Career Consortium offers ImaginePhD.com, a tool for planning and career exploration.
- For those in Psychology, APA.org offers IDP resources.
Teaching Development
The Center for Teaching and Learning offers a wealth of resources for teaching development from workshops to consultations, with programs accessible to the Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma campuses and available online.