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Coventry University PGR Newsletter
Wednesday 10 July 2024
Transformative Teaching / Transformative Learning : Challenge Workshop
Monday 2nd September (1.30pm – 4.30pm)
In-person - Swan Room, Elm Bank, Mile Lane
Hosted by the Academic Development team, this is a challenging, half day, in-person workshop where you are introduced to the fundamentals of Coventry Way teaching and learning. Focussing on active, applied, social and inclusive teaching practice, the workshop provides insight and develops confidence, preparing participants for their first steps teaching at Coventry University.
(Please note, this workshop was formerly called the Introduction to Teaching and Learning Bootcamp)
Why register for this workshop?
- If you are interested in teaching and want to learn some of the fundamentals of teaching and learning at Coventry.
- If you have already taught at other institutions, this workshop will act as a useful refresher and will highlight the fundamental pedagogical approaches used at Coventry.
- The workshop counts towards your Research Development Activity hours.
- As of September 2024, all PGR who want to teach will need to have attended this workshop. (If you begin a teaching opportunity before completing the Bootcamp, you will be invited to the next scheduled workshop).
Further information about PGR Teaching can be found here: PGR working for Coventry University Group (sharepoint.com)
Please note that you can also apply for the Introduction to Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (7010CRB) course, which leads to PGRs gaining a valuable teaching accreditation, Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). More information: Introduction to Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 2024 (adobe.com).
Do Differences Make a Difference? Board Chair–CEO Nationality Diversity and R&D Investment
This CFCI event will explore the impact of Chair–CEO nationality diversity on R&D investment.
Speaker: Dr Alaa Alhaj Ismail (Assistant Professor of Accounting)
When: Wednesday, 17 July 2024 @ 2-4PM
Where: JA125, Jaguar Building, Coventry University
Open Access Escape Room
Join the Open Research & Scholarly Publications (ORSP) Team in solving a range of puzzles and clues to unlock the research that has been locked away by “the villain”. Learn about the benefits of open access and the routes that make research openly available to others.
Session lead: Karen Goodson and Michelle Mayer
When: Wednesday, 24 July 2024 @11:00 – 12:00
Where: Lanchester Library Teaching Room 3
When: Wednesday, 24 July 2024 @13:00 – 14:00
Where: Lanchester Library Teaching Room 3
Making Research Open: An introduction to Open Research
Open Research can mean different things to different subjects and different researchers. Whatever form it takes, Open Research has benefits for academia, it benefits the public good, and it has benefits for individual researchers.
Join Open Research Officer Dr Joshua Caldicott as he introduces the different ways you can make your research open, from the very beginning of your research all the way up to publication, and how it benefits research culture.
Turning the tide: Strategic transformation of the National Health Insurance programme of Indonesia
This event will discuss success stories, key strategy, and ground-breaking initiatives at BPJS Kesehatan, designed to generate solutions to alleviate healthcare-related financial challenges and ensure equal access to healthcare for all Indonesian citizens.
When: Friday 26 , July 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Where: CC1.4, Technocentre, Puma Way, Coventry, CV1 2TT
When: Wednesday, 14 August 2024 @11:00 – 12:00
Where: Lanchester Library Teaching Room 3
Research Data Management Escape Room
The Open Research & Scholarly Publications (ORSP) Team will be hosting a session to support you with an aspect of research data management. Sharing data that validate publications is an important requirement of Research Funders and Coventry University. Join the ORSP Team for an alternative way on locating RDM guidance in the Library and how to upload dataset(s) to the institutional repository. Will you Escape FAIRly to Funding?
Handling Copyright: Third-party Copyright for Theses and Publications
The Open Research and Scholarly Publications (ORSP) Team will give an introduction to copyright, creative commons licences and permissions requests. This session is geared towards PGRs who need to consider copyright either ahead of submission or ahead of a publication, but all are welcome. There will then be an opportunity to discuss any copyright or permissions questions or concerns you may have with a member of the Open Research and Scholarly Publications Team.
When: Wednesday, 14 August 2024 @ 13:00 – 14:30
Where: Lanchester Library Teaching Room 3
When: Friday, 6 September 2024 @ 14:00 – 17:00
Where: Kestral Room (ELM-G-28), Ground Floor, Elm Bank
Planning High-Risk Travel - Professional Skills Workshop
Completing risk assessments is an essential professional skill for any staff member or researcher carrying out fieldwork in high-risk contexts.
This interactive face-to-face session will explore factors to be considered when planning travel to high-risk destinations or where other factors elevate risk in moderate or low-risk destinations (e.g. timings, purpose, activities, individual vulnerabilities, etc.).
This workshop will ensure staff and PGR students have the necessary skills and confidence to complete risk assessments for high-risk travel and identify appropriate mitigations to ensure risks are tolerable.
Understanding Risk Assessments
An important part of planning your research is to ensure you have identified and are controlling any risks to the health and safety of yourself, your colleagues, and your participants.
This face-to-face session will give you an understanding of the key concepts of risk assessment and how they should be applied to your research. Good understanding of this process will support your ethics applications for your research proposals.
This session will provide an understanding of when to start, how to complete, and what is required for completing a risk assessment for research projects.
When: Wednesday, 11 September 2024 @10:30 – 13:00
Where: Kestral Room (ELM-G-28), Ground Floor, Elm Bank
When: Wednesday, 11 September 2024 @14:00 – 17:00
Where: Kestral Room (ELM-G-28), Ground Floor, Elm Bank
Personal Safety for Researchers - Professional Skills Workshop
Do you carry out work in the community, such as home visits or regularly work on your own in the field?
Are you responsible for people who do?
This face-to-face workshop will enable participants to ensure they safeguard their personal safety when working in the community, to understand the issues surrounding personal safety, and to learn how to assess activities from a personal safety perspective.
Announcements
Get the data analysis and statistics support you need for your Thesis
Sigma, the University’s maths and stats support service, is here to provide you the data analysis or statistics support you may need for your thesis. Sigma drop-in centre in the library is open Monday to Friday 11:00-15:00 ; online drop-in support - 12:00-13:00 Monday to Friday.
Need help with a university system? Here's how to find support
Digital Services now offers training to all new PGRs and for PGRs wanting a boost in confidence in accessing and using our university systems.
You can book a training session over the digital services portal.
Details for accessing online drop-in and all Sigma services are on Home - sigma - LibGuides at Coventry University
Doctoral College loaned laptops require regular log in
If you borrowed a laptop from the Doctoral College, please make sure you are using/logging in to it regularly to avoid getting your laptop quarantined by the IT services.
Publication Sharing
If you have a book, paper, article or anything else that you would like to share, we want to know about it. You can submit a link or DOI to a recent publication you would like to share and it will be displayed on the ReCAP sharepoint and in the PGR and Research Staff Newsletter.
If you have any questions, please email RECAP@coventry.ac.uk
Click here to submit your publication.
Careers
This section shares resources related to supporting PGRs to build their career development opportunities.
Specialist Career Consultation for PGRs
Coventry University's Talent Team in conjunction with RECAP offers specialist consultation for Postgraduate Researchers.
To arrange an appointment with Mark Adams (PGR Careers Consultant - ab4397@coventry.ac.uk), please sign up to Handshake by scanning the QR code.
The Brilliant Club
The Scholars Programme recruits, trains and places PhD researchers and graduates in state schools in England and Wales, to deliver academically rigorous programmes often linked their own research.
Read more and apply here
PGR Teaching Advertisements
Call for Expressions of Interest – BSc and MSc Bioscience Courses (Academic Year 2024/5), School of Life Sciences, Coventry University
Information about teaching positions available: Microsoft Word - PGR Teaching Advertisement - BSc and MSc Bioscience courses (May 2024) (sharepoint.com)
To offer an expression of interest, please complete the following MS Form: https://forms.office.com/e/3mhRSUeuw3
Deadline: Friday 19th July 2024 (@23:59)
Advertisement - Acting Stage and Screen (Semester One; Academic Year 2024/5)
Information about the teaching position: PGR Teaching Advertisement - Acting Stage and Screen (College of the Arts and Society).pdf
To apply, please complete the following MS Form: https://forms.office.com/e/T61QB0sUpk
Deadline: Saturday 20th July 2024 (@23:59)
PGR Teaching advertisements will be circulated via the PGR Newsletter and will also be added to the Doctoral and Researcher College portal pages: PGR working for Coventry University Group (sharepoint.com).
Access immediate emotional and mental health support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through Spectrum.Life which is delivered by an external partner on behalf of CU Health and Wellbeing (Student Services).
PGR Support Links
We have moved our 'PGR Wellbeing Support' and 'PGR Support' sections to the Doctoral College SharePoint.
Please visit the SharePoint page to find key information about wellbeing support and for useful information.
Do you have any Upcoming Events you want to tell the PGR Community about?
If so, we would love to hear from you! Please send us details of events you would like us to share to recap@coventry.ac.uk
Further development opportunities and events can also be found on the RECAP website.
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