ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on a research study at a UK university that explored how the building and creation of effective relationships can support individual programme leaders (PLs). Moore identifies the crucial relationships for an individual PL. As an academic developer who works with PLs, she recognises that sources of help and advice are often discovered after they are needed and that there is a need to translate institutional policy intentions into academic action. Moreover, academic developers who are located centrally can facilitate safe spaces to share and learn from others as well as broker relationships across disciplinary and professional boundaries. She identifies four categories of relationships and provides a set of guiding questions for developers and mentors to use to create solutions to the issues raised by the chapter.
