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ECR Newsletter - March 2024
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ECR Network Enhancement Award - NOW OPEN!
Closing date: Monday 18 March 2024 (12 Noon)
The Researcher Development and Research Culture team has funding to support the development and enhancement of research culture related activities across the University of Exeter.
The ECRN Enhancement Awards provide funding for current ECRNs to enhance their activities, promote their activities or re-establish network activities. The Awards are also available to create new ECRNs in or across departments/faculties that do not yet have an established ECRN.
Although the Award can support a social or community-building element, the bulk of the funding must be focussed toward learning and development activities and will need to align with one or more specific themes.
Funding is available from a pool of £12,500 (maximum £3,125 per award).
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ECR Researcher Development Programme
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Learning and Development Opportunities: University of Exeter and Beyond
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IDSAI Seminar : Creating sustainable research tools with real-world applications - lessons from the Alan Turing Institute’s Environment and Sustainability Grand Challenge
Thursday 7 March 2024 (2.30 pm - 3.30 pm)
Streatham Campus, LT1 Queens and Online
The Alan Turing Institute’s Environment & Sustainability Grand Challenge seeks to tackle some of the most pressing environmental challenges including climate change and the resulting loss of biodiversity and wildlife habitat. Researchers in the Grand Challenge develop and deploy cutting-edge artificial intelligence-based tools to enable monitoring, forecasting, and responding to the effects of climate change. Dr Alden Conner, Senior Researcher for Research Applications at The Alan Turing Institute, will discuss how we not only research and develop AI tools but work collaboratively across disciplines to ensure that outputs are applicable and generalizable, enabling broader adoption of new technologies.
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Join in the Gylly Beach Clean
Wednesday 13 March 2024 (3.30 pm - 5 pm)
To support the Falmouth Spring Clean, the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is organising a Beach Clean, at Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth, with the Beach Guardian (Exeter PhD student Emily Stevenson) - as part of the Big Plastic Count to highlight the impact of plastic pollution. Everyone from the Cornwall campus and wider community is welcome. There will be a bus leaving from the ESI at 3:30pm.
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Wednesday 20 March 2024 (1 pm - 3 pm)
ESI Trevithick Room, Penryn Campus and Online.
Join Sacha Dench (aka the Human Swan, world record breaking biologist and conservationist and UN ambassador to the Convention on migratory birds) for a talk with stunning visuals about what she learned from flying with birds and the power of creativity in conservation.
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RLUK24 (Research Libraries UK) Virtual Conference Bristol Watch Party
Thursday 21 March 2024 (9 am - 5.30 pm). Online.
Deadline for Registration : Wednesday 6 March 2024.
Venue : Great Eastern Hall, Brunel's SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Gas Ferry Road, Bristol BS1 6TY.
The University of Bristol will be hosting a networking watch party for the RLUK24 Virtual Conference on behalf of GW4 and AULIC on 21/3/2024. The conference is online, but this event will allow local colleagues to watch the second day of the conference together, with time for discussion and networking. There is no cost for this event, and lunch and refreshments will be provided to those who attend in person. You do not need to register for the full conference in order to attend this event. The watch party is open to academics, postgraduate researchers library/research support staff from the Universities of Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and UWE.
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Research Showcase: Modelling Idiomaticity in Language
Wednesday 27 March 2024 (11 am - 12 noon)
In person (location TBC) & online via Teams
Aline Villavicencio, the newly appointed Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), will be giving an introductory talk for the benefit of HASS academics. She will present on her research in the field of linguistics and also discuss ways in which IDSAI and the Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI) can encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary, cross-Faculty research. This event is hosted by SCI in collaboration with IDSAI.
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Postgraduate Pedagogies Journal - Volume 4 - Cover Artwork Competition
Deadline : Monday 1 April 2024
Winners Announced : Wednesday 1 May 2024 for publishing Summer 2024.
Artwork is welcomed for the forthcoming issue of this open-access journal, a platform sharing the perspective of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs). If you would like to submit your artwork to feature on the cover of the forthcoming volume contact postgrad.pedagogies.journal@gmail.com. Artists must be Doctoral Researchers or Early Career Researchers (up to 3 years postdoctoral). Artwork specifications: JPEG Format; 330 dpi (final version) 31.2x21.6 cm. Please submit file size 180dpi. Three prizes will be awarded.
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How to Use Generative AI as a Researcher: A Beginner’s Guide
24 April 2024 (10 am - 12 noon) - Zoom
This workshop is for those who wish to use Generative AI (eg ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, Claude) in their research but not sure where to start! It is a workshop for AI beginners, not AI experts and you do not need to have any experience of using Generative AI to attend.
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Call for Abstracts: School of Education Conference 2024: Why does Educational Research Matter?
Friday 14 June 2024 (10 am - 3 pm)
Venue: St Luke’s Campus, Barton Court
Theme: Why does educational research matter? (Any discipline is welcome to submit an abstract providing the scope of the presentation follows an educational theme). You can submit an abstract for either a:
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Poster (A3 portrait).
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Lightning Talk (5 mins).
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Research Presentation (15 mins) + Q&A (5 mins).
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Workshop (25 mins).
All researchers are welcome, at any stage of their career. Enquires to SoE-AERC@exeter.ac.uk
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NTU Singapore - Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP) Call
Deadline : Ongoing.
The call for the prestigious Nanyang Assistant Professorship, open to outstanding researchers and exceptional scholars, is now open for applications.
The Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme is open to outstanding young researchers and exceptional scholars from Singapore and around the world, who aspire to a research leadership role at NTU. Nanyang Assistant Professors play an important role in lifting NTU’s research to higher levels.
NTU invites outstanding early-career researchers (postdoctoral fellow or equivalent) to apply for an appointment as a Nanyang Assistant Professor. In a change from previous practice, applications for this Professorship can be submitted throughout the year (no call deadline).
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The Times Higher Education (THE) Campus - call for contributions
Through the University's partnership with THE Campus, we receive regular calls for content, as well as a rolling call for contributions on THE Campus key topics one of which is Early Career Research.
THE Campus publish two key forms of content:-
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resources offering advice and insight for fellow faculty, university leaders and support staff looking to improve their teaching and learning, equity-diversity-inclusion work, research management, internationalisation, work towards the SDGs and early career research, taking in all the more holistic elements of university life such as student support, well-being and community building.
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opinion pieces commenting on different topical issues or challenges relating to the successful delivery of higher education – these need to also propose some practical solutions to the issue they raise.
With resources, the aim is to offer quick, practical and applicable advice for academics and other university staff – to go away with actionable take-aways and tips. If you are interested in contributing to THE Campus, please contact eduexe@exeter.ac.uk with your pitch and download the Campus editorial guidelines.
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HASS Project Monograph Update
The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Project Monograph aims to create a better culture for writing and producing research across our community. A wide variety of writing retreats both on and off campus, as well as writing and journalling workshops are now available throughout the next few months, along with a buddy system that pairs colleagues to support your writing. The team are always looking for new ideas and ways to support creative writing and practice, so please get in touch with Rachel Dallyn and William Galois with your suggestions.
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'Focus Space' - Improve Your Productivity!
We would like to remind you of our regular 'Focus Space' online sessions which run from 10 am - 12.30 pm Mondays and Thursdays - Click here for details of how to join this group.
Time is structured into a series of work and discussion slots, to encourage productivity and sharing of practice. These sessions allow you to block out protected time for whatever you need to work on! Participants do not have to 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.
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Take Part in an Interval Training Study
Are you interested in your own fitness status and want to get personalised interval training protocols?
A PhD student at the PHSS department is looking for healthy people, recreationally active, aged 18 - 60 to participate in a study aiming to optimize prescription for interval training at the Public Health and Sports Sciences department, St Luke's campus.
The study involves 5 lab visits, which include performing 2 exercise tests and 3 training sessions on a stationary bike, and fingertip blood samples will be collected during the process. Information about your fitness status in the form of a report will be provided. Travel expenses will be paid for your inconvenience.
If you are interested, please contact the research team at yl1122@exeter.ac.uk.
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Call for Submissions: Trans Contributions to Science
In connection with the 2024 theme of LGBTQIA+ History Month- Medicine- #UnderTheScope, Cara Patel is currently collating stories of trans and gender non-conforming individuals working in STEM research for an upcoming zine. Whether you are a trans researcher and would like to share what you do, or are interested in sharing the story of a trans figure from history, all contributions welcome.
If you have a story to share or know someone who does, please reach out to trans.in.stem.zine@gmail.com. Let’s amplify the voices and experiences that contribute to the rich tapestry of diversity within the scientific community.
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Delivery of Lab Materials
This is a reminder that any parcels containing lab materials, including chemicals, items requiring temperature control, and biological samples, must be sent directly to the appropriate building rather than through the Central Mailroom located in the Old Library, Streatham Campus. Please note that the Central Mailroom team is not equipped to handle such materials and reserves the right to refuse delivery. Your cooperation in following this procedure is greatly appreciated.
Please ensure that when you order through our T1 Finance system that the section ‘Delivery Point Type’ has the correct Faculty, for example below 1405 for HLS. Please also ensure that the ‘Delivery Point’ has the correct building selected for your delivery as indicated by clicking here.
This will help ensure that your research and teaching materials arrive promptly at your location, alleviate the workload on the Central Mailroom team, minimise disruptions to regular mail deliveries, room setups, exam table moves, disposals, etc, and prevent any parcels from being refused delivery.
Please remember to input the correct delivery address when ordering items through T1.
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Research Grants, Funding & Competitions
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Exeter Health Analytics – Seed-corn funding – Spring 2024
Application Deadline : Wednesday 13 March 2024
The Exeter Health Analytics research network is excited to announce the first round of our seed-corn funding! This scheme provides funds for short pilot projects that aim to research applications of quantitative methods within health, wellbeing and disease-related research. The focus is to fund new interdisciplinary collaborations or to allow you to complete a piece of research that has encountered unexpected challenges. It is hoped that awarded projects will lead to larger grant applications. Most awards will be between £500 to £3,000, with an anticipated 3-4 projects to be funded this round. Staff from any faculty are invited to apply, though you would be expected to join the network if you have not already done so. All funding must be used by 31 July 2024.
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2024 (40th) International Prize for Biology- call for nominations
Nomination deadline: Friday 15 March 2024 23:59 (JST).
The International Prize for Biology is a commemorative prize normally given to one researcher who has made an outstanding contribution in a named field within biological sciences.
The Prize consists of a medal and an award of 10 million Japanese yen. In conjunction with the ceremony, a commemorative symposium is also held and the Prize recipient is asked to attend both of these events. The research field for this year’s Prize is Systematic Biology and Taxonomy. We would like to invite you to nominate a recipient for the 2024 Prize.
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Arts and humanities-led research commercialisation: round two
Closing Date : Wednesday 10 April 2024 (4 pm)
This funding opportunity is intended to increase support for research commercialisation across the arts and humanities. Applications can follow on from any previously UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded research in the last 24 months but must significantly involve the arts and humanities. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
Deadline : Thursday 16 May 2024
Fellowships are aimed at providing a development opportunity for those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills. There is an online information event on Wednesday 13 March (2 - 3 pm). A recording will be available from 15 March 2024. More information and registration available here.
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EACR Travel Fellowships (cancer research)
Deadline : Rolling submissions. Submit applications at any time.
The EACR Travel Fellowships provided by the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) and World Cancer Research support early career cancer researchers who are members of the EACR or its associated national societies to gain new skills by visiting a laboratory in another country. Funding of up to 3000 EUR is available. Applicants must apply at least 8 weeks before the planned trip.
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British Heart Foundation - Travel Fellowships
Deadline: Open
To enable a postdoctoral researcher to undertake a visit to a distinguished laboratory abroad, either for a short period of up to six months to acquire specialist knowledge or expertise, or for a longer period to carry out a research project that can not be done in the UK.
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Newton International Fellowships
Deadline : Open
For researchers at the beginning of their career to build and maintain links with leading researchers in the UK. The long-term aim of the scheme is to build a global pool of research leaders and encourage long-term international collaboration with the UK. Support for 2 years' research
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The Royal Society - Univerisity Research Fellowship
Applications Open : Thursday 11 July 2024
Applicatons Close : Tuesday 10 September 2024
The University Research Fellowship (URF) programme aims to support the next generation of research leaders to undertake cutting-edge research. The objectives of the URF programme are to enable outstanding early career scientists with the potential to become leaders in their field.
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Researcher Led Initiatives (RLI) - Award Winners 2024
After a very competitive award process, we are very pleased to announce the 2024 Winning Initiatives and the Lead Award Holders, as follows:
Fostering Cross - Discipline Early and Mid-Career Collaboration within the University of Exeter - Jessica Bollen.
Access to Artefacts - Creating a Guideline for Collaborations Between Collections and Researchers - Hannah Britton.
Catalysing Impact: Empowering Health and Life Sciences Early-Career Researchers for Commercialisation Success - James Chelliah.
Penryn PGR Peer-to-Peer Support Network - Natasha Hammond.
Beyond the Goldfish Bowl: Communicating Research Creatively - Harriet Hunt.
Creative Researching - Elaine Hutchinson.
Breaking New Ground - Ruolin Leng.
The Theory and Practice of Social Mobility - Antony Mullen.
Our Stories: A short film about professional development within academia and beyond - Shokraneh Oftadeh Moghadam.
ArticuLab: Cultivating Creative Dialogues in Research - Isahbella Rai.
Penryn Campus Microbiology Networking Away Day - David Sunderhauf.
Building a Cross-Faculty Academic Job Hunt Community - Xuan Zhao.
Congratulations to all those whose applications were successful. These projects are now underway; keep an eye out for announcements and invitations from the project groups!
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Research & Researcher Networks
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ECR Network Enhancement Award - NOW OPEN!
Closing date: Monday 18 March 2024 (12 Noon)
As mentioned above under the 'Spotlight On' section, please be reminded that these Awards are being run by the Researcher Development & Research Culture Team and provide funding for current ECRNs to enhance their activities, promote their activities or re-establish network activities. The Awards are also available to create new ECRNs in or across departments/faculties that do not yet have an established ECRN.
Although the Award can support a social or community-building element, the bulk of the funding must be focussed toward learning and development activities and will need to align with one or more specific themes.
Funding is available from a pool of £12,500 (maximum £3,125 per award).
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Early Career Researcher Network Welcome Session
Wednesday 1 May 2024 (12 noon - 1 pm) - Online (Zoom)
At this sesion you will learn about the Network, meet and engage with other Early Career Researchers and address any questions or concerns you have about the Network.
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Research & Researcher Blogs
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ECR Hub Webpages - Feedback Required
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We are currently updating and developing the ECR Hub webpages so that we can improve the information and support we provide you. Our aim is to make the Hub a one-stop-shop to help reduce the time you spend searching for key information and support, along with streamlining our communications to you.
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Organising an Event & Need Help?
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Health, Wellbeing & Support
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Casual Mixed Floorball (Indoor Hockey)
Every Thursday (12 noon - 1 pm) - Streatham Sports Hall.
This mixed group of academics, staff and PGR students is looking for new members to join their floorball (indoor hockey) group. They play casually every Thursday 12 - 1 pm at the Streatham Sports Hall and are open to all. No prior experience is required and all equipment is provided. If you would like to join or know more, feel free to contact Valentin Hämmerli (v.haemmerli@exeter.ac.uk).
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Find out how the University can support Early Career Researchers. The page includes support from the University, Spectrum.Life as well as a list of networks to support staff wellbeing.
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