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Welcome to this month's ECR Newsletter where you will find key information on the following’:

• Researcher Development & Research Culture Programme.
• Online Focus Space for ECRs.
• 1:2:1 Careers Appointments.
• Good Research Practice - 1:2:1 Surgeries now available.
• RLI Spotlight on 'Yoga@LSI Project'.
• ECR Liaison Forum.
• GW4 Launches Open Funding Call for Collaborative Research and Innovation Communities!
• Learning & Development Opportunities : UoE and Beyond.
• Research and Researcher Networks.
• British Academy - ECR Led Events.
• Teaching Staff Assessment and Feedback Survey.

Please direct any questions you may have to researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.

Previous copies of Newsletters can be viewed by clicking here.  If you have something that you'd like to share in future Newsletters, click here for copy deadline dates as well as submission guidelines.

ECR Core Programme

Applying for Academic Jobs - 13/12/2022 (10 am - 12 noon) 
Research Integrity & Ethics - 1-2-1 surgery - 13/12/2022 (see timeslots within Newsletter)
Research Integrity & Ethics - 1-2-1 surgery - 15/12/2022 (see timeslots within Newsletter)
Publishing in Open Access - 25/01/2023 (11 am - 11.45 am)
How to get a Fellowship - 09/02/2023 (9.30 am - 4.30 pm)

Research and Innovation Essentials Series

Introduction to Research Services - 22/02/2023 (12 noon - 1 pm)

Having problems getting your writing over the finishing line .... ?

These online sessions run from 10 am - 12.30 pm most Mondays and Thursdays - Click here for dates and details of how to join this group.

Participants do not have stay for the whole session - you can dip in and out as you please!

To make things easy, these sessions can be accessed via the same Teams link - click here.

We are looking to expand our team of facilitators so if you would like to find out more about becoming a facilitator please contact ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.

Unsure of your future career direction either within Academia or beyond Academia? Kate Foster, (Careers Coach for Researcher Development and Research Culture), is available to offer 1:2:1 Career coaching appointments for ECRs.  50 minute online appointments are available for you to book on by clicking here.

Kate can offer advice and discuss how to manage and plan your career and has timeslots from 17 January 2023 onwards.  Should you wish to meet her before then, please contact ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.

Research Integrity & Ethics - 1:2:1 Surgeries

These 1:1 surgeries provide an opportunity to discuss any queries, concerns or issues that you may have relating to all aspects of good practice in research, research integrity and ethics. This could include consideration of the ethical implications of your research project and future research direction, review of your ethics application, identifying regulations and external approval routes for your research where relevant, discussing concerns on research integrity or queries on, for example, authorship, data management and open research practices.  Surgeries will be 20 minute timeslots on the following dates:-

13 December - timeslots available as follows:
1240-1300; 1300-1320; 1320-1340; 1340-1400.
15 December - timeslots available as follows:
1000-1020; 1020-1040; 1040-1100; 1140-1200.

To book your place, email researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk heading your email "Research Integrity & Ethics - surgery request" and setting out your preferred date/time.  We will do our best to meet your preferred timeslot.
 

In the upcoming months we will be shining the spotlight on various RLI's (Researcher-led Initiatives) which took place back in Summer.  This month we are focusing on Helen Eachus' RLI ('Yoga@LSI' project). She organised a series of classes and here is a snapshot of her event:-

"The Yoga@LSI project aimed to provide accessible and inclusive wellbeing-focused activities to postgraduate students and staff working in the Living Systems Institute (LSI) and neighbouring buildings – Biosciences, Medical Mycology, Physics – and in general, all University staff who wish to join. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an incredibly stressful time for all members of our community and during this period there has been little opportunity for people to participate in group activities, which help to build community. We felt that this was the time to re-kindle our community at the LSI and beyond, by offering instructed yoga sessions within the LSI building. Peer reviewed studies support that yoga is highly beneficial to both physical and mental health."

Well done Helen!  Yoga mats are stored in the LSI wellbeing room, where they are available for LSI staff and students to use at any time, to take a break during their busy working day.

Action Notes from the last meeting held on Tuesday 11 October 2022, are now available - click here.

Next meeting for your diary:-
Thursday 26 January 2023 (10 am - 11.30 am).

All ECRs can attend an 'ECR Liaison Forum' (ECR LF).  The LF's  continue to develop and now act as a formal route for PGRs and ECRs within the ECR Networks to feed into University strategy. Dedicated ECR Reps feed ‘to and from’ the ECR Liaison Forums from several strategic boards, steering and working groups, including the Research and Impact Executive Committee (RIEC), the Exeter Academic Steering Group, the Concordat Steering Group, the Positive Working Group and the Equality and Diversity Board. If you'd like to come along, simply email researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk askingto be added to the ECR LF list and you will be invited to future meetings.

Collaborative research and innovation communities across the four universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter can now apply for up to £20K funding, as the latest round of the GW4 Building Communities Generator Fund officially opens.

Now in its fourth year, this initiative supports both the creation of new GW4 communities and the development of the strongest ideas emerging from our existing communities.

The GW4 Generator Fund is an open call and applications across all areas of research and innovation are invited. Applications from Early Career Research (ECR) communities are particularly welcome and supported.

Generator funding can be used as a stand-alone award or, in conjunction with other sources of funding. Communities are encouraged to use the scheme as a step towards applying for external funding.

The deadline for applications is 6 February 2023. For more information and to apply: GW4 Generator Fund

Call for Papers: Unpacking the V&A Wedgwood Collection
Friday 30 June, V&A Wedgwood Collection, Barlaston and Saturday 1 July 2023, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023.
A two-day Symposium exploring new research avenues for Wedgwood studies.  For more information and to find out how to submit your 400-word abstract outlining a 20- to 30-minute presentation, click here.

Early Career Research Networks (ECRNs) are designed to help support our Early Career Researchers in the beginning stages of their career. The ECRNs are designed to help raise awareness of new developments in a particular field: new tools, processes, leaders, training programs, and services. They are also an opportunity for collaborative problem solving and to get advice from your peers. To find out more about the Networks and who your Network Rep is click here.

For all 3 events listed below, reasonable travel and accommodation can be provided by the British Academy.

MOCK:  Music and Online Cultures Kernel: Developing a New Research Network
4 - 5 January 2023 - Bristol
This event is a one-of-a-kind thinktank and workshop to establish the scope of a research network for the study of music and online cultures. This event maps out the foundations—a 'MOCK-up'—of such a network, setting objectives, structures, and funding goals. A group of Early Career Researchers (ECR's) co-facilitators from music, media, and digital humanities will run the two-day event, featuring online sessions to network with international colleagues and potential partners in industry.  Find out more and to register click here. 

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Networking for Equality in the Workplace: Bringing Research and Industry Together
17 January 2023 - UWE, Bristol
The Networking for Equality in the Workplace event will bring together ECRs in the South West with an interest in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) together with organisations to explore how fairness and diversity can bring significant advantages to an organisation. The workshop aims to explore possibilities for future collaborative work with policy and practice partners, as well as help ECRs disseminate their research. Find out more and to register click here. 

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Whose responsibility is social welfare? Interdisciplinary approaches to community welfare and social justice
27 February 2023 - Cheltenham
The purpose of this event is to bring together ECRs in the South West and potential community stakeholders to explore the issue of responsibility for key public services, and to establish links for future collaboration. We aim to produce themed working groups to take forward further collaborative activity and welcome ECRs from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to: sociology, education, social work, health and social care, and criminology. Find out more and register click here.

The NSS Assessment and Feedback project is looking to support academics in considering the NSS measures in their teaching, support for learning, and marking and feedback activity.  As part of this, we are running a short survey to ask academics, ECRs and PTAs who teach how they’d most like support, which you can find via the link below. Please take a few minutes to complete it as soon as you can – your feedback will help ensure we provide you with the right advice, guidance and training on assessment, marking and feedback.
https://online1.snapsurveys.com/p98yuj.

We are looking for PhD and Early Career researchers to contribute to Exeter’s Research & Innovation blog and write posts that are based on three questions about your work. If you would like to find out more please email digitalteam@exeter.ac.uk.

For information on a range of current grants and funding, check out the Research Toolkit webpages. 

If you're organising an event and don't know where to start, take a look at the Corporate Events webpage where you will find lots of useful information and advice including an Events Planning Toolkit!  If you would like to contact the Events Team for further advice email eventenquiries@exeter.ac.uk.

Find out how the University can support Early Career Researchers by clicking here.  The page includes support from the University, Spectrum.Life as well as a list of networks to support staff wellbeing.

You can also get the latest Concordat updates and events by signing up to their newsletter when registering with their website.

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See the latest news update on the Concordat here.