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ECR Newsletter - November 2022 |
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Welcome to this month's ECR Newsletter where you will find key information on the following’:
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RDRC Programme.
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Overcoming Imposter Feelings - Support for Researchers.
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Online Focus Space for ECRs.
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1:2:1 Careers Appointments.
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Good Research Practice Workshop and 1:2:1 Surgeries.
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Software Training.
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The Research Software Engineers (RSE's) Group.
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Share your Exeter ECR Experiences to Help us Support You.
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RLI Spotlight on 'Beyond the Brick Campus'.
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ECR Liaison Forum.
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Doctoral Supervision Steering Group.
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Learning & Development Opportunities : UoE and Beyond.
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Research and Researcher Networks.
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.
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Overcoming Imposter Feelings - Support for Researchers |
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Do you sometimes feel you are not clever/qualified enough?
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Constantly struggling with self-doubt?
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Ever thought your success was down to luck rather than your ability?
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Are you scared that one day your colleagues will find you out as a fraud?
If you are asking yourself these questions you might be grappling with Imposter Feelings. Take heart, you are not on your own and there are ways to thrive despite it!
Want to build confidence, maximise your potential and finally feel `good enough'? Join this interactive zoom workshop that will equip you with evidence-based knowledge about imposter feelings and some techniques to help you flourish.
In a confidential and supportive space, we will consider what it is actually, where it comes from and which groups of people are more likely to suffer from it.
The course includes:-
Webinar - Tuesday 6 December 2022 (9.30 am - 12.45 pm) followed by an offer of 1:2:1 (1 hour) confidential coaching session (not compulsory).
To find out more and to book your place click here.
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1:2:1 Careers Appointments |
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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 15 November onwards. Should you wish to meet her before then, please contact ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.
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Good Research Practice Workshop and 1:2:1 Surgeries NOW available! |
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Research Ethics and Governance Manager, Gail Seymour, will be presenting 'Good Research Practice Workshop' on Thursday 10 November 2022 (10 am - 11.30 am). The Workshop will provide an opportunity to consider and discuss many aspects of good practice in research with other researchers and to understand where further guidance, advice and support can be found. To book your place click here. Please note that due to technical issues on Trent, registration is via an MS Form instead.
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:-
24 November (10 am - 12 noon);
1 December (12 noon - 2 pm);
13 December (12 noon - 2 pm);
15 December (10 am - 12 noon).
Timeslots available for MORNING appointments:
1000-1020; 1020-1040; 1040-1100; 1100-1120; 1120-1140; 1140-1200.
Timeslots available for AFTERNOON appointments:
1200-1220; 1220-1240; 1240-1300; 1300-1320; 1320-1340; 1340-1400.
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.
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Introduction to Python (2 part course) - 16 & 23 November 2022 (both 10 am - 1 pm) - Hybrid
Registration closes 9 November 2022.
Over two sessions learn the fundamentals of Python, one of the most popular programming languages and be introduced to a variety of applications.
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the basic data types in Python how to declare them.
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the basic principles of control flow and for loops.
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what a function is and how to define one that takes user-specified parameters.
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how to perform simple analysis and visualisation of a table of data.
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which fundamental concepts are relevant to other programming languages.
Please keep a close eye on our webpage for further software training opportunities coming up in 2023!
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The Research Software Engineers (RSEs) Group |
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The University’s centralised Research Software Engineers (RSEs) group assists our research community with complex and bespoke research software needs. The RSE group is part of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
The group consists of Research Software Engineers who help develop, maintain, and extend research software. The RSEs are software engineers with science backgrounds well placed to understand the constraints of academic research and associated software engineering.
The RSEs have dedicated every Wednesday between 11:00 – 13:00 for ECR and PGR enquiries. Depending on the complexity of your query, the team will either arrange a Wednesday Teams appointment with you, or will answer your query via email. To contact the team, email ResearchSoftwareEngineeringGroup@group.exeter.ac.uk outlining the support you need and the urgency of your request.
The RSE’s also host a Slack channel where you can ask questions and receive answers from a community of knowledge: https://idsai-rf-rse.slack.com/.
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Share your Exeter ECR Experiences to Help us Support You |
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Are you willing to help us to better understand the experiences of Early Career Researchers at the University of Exeter and identify ways of improving them? If you are, please complete this 20-minute survey: https://uqpsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/
SV_4HE9hZL7NHcC114.
Closes on 12 November 2022.
This interactive survey builds on the recent interviews conducted with University of Exeter ECRs (as part of a collaborative project with the University of Queensland in Australia). We found that the support people did or didn’t receive from different groups at work — whether local lab and research groups, teaching and administrative teams, or more informal friendship groups — influenced the experiences of ECRs in both positive and negative ways; impacting career progression, decisions about remaining in academia, and more generally, mental well-being.
Please share your experiences to help us support you.
Dr Kim Peters, Professor in Management, University of Exeter Business School &
Dr Chris Wood, Head of Researcher Development and Research Culture, University of Exeter
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Beyond the Brick Campus: Building a More Inclusive Academic Culture |
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In the upcoming months we will be shining the spotlight on various RLI's (Researcher-led Initiatives) which took place back in Summer. The first one was organised by Kris Hill and was entitled ‘Beyond the Brick Campus: Building more Inclusive Academic Cultures’. This particular RLI was conceived to bring together PGRs and ECRs who
believe distance-based options are essential for inclusivity in academia. The goal was to create a network of peers with a shared interest in teaching and developing distance-based courses and exploring the best practices for accommodating remote mentees and colleagues. The initiative kicked off with a series of three workshops that featured keynote presentations, followed by question-and-answer sessions. The workshops included with round-table discussions where participants engaged in discussions on the future of higher education and the incorporation of distance-based options. A key aim of the initiative was to also allow participants to share their experiences and learn from each other, and to create a network of peers interested in developing distance-based courses or options, now or in their near futures. If you would like to be invited to the network, please contact Kris Hill
(kh458@exeter.ac.uk).
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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.
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Doctoral Supervision Steering Group |
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A review was conducted last year and presented to (what was) DCMG, and it was agreed that a steering group would be set up to support the ongoing planning and review of doctoral supervision, examiner and pastoral tutor training.
We are inviting PGR and ECR reps to join the steering group and provide important input and feedback on training. The group will meet monthly for six months from November/December this year, and termly thereafter. The commitment is expected to be reading a paper per meeting, and providing feedback in the meeting. If you are interested in being involved, please contact Kelly Preece (Academic Developer, Doctoral Supervision) on k.preece@exeter.ac.uk.
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Learning & Development Opportunities : University of Exeter and Beyond |
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The Royal Society is looking for STEM based ECR volunteers – barriers to STEM career progression
The Royal Society is currently running a diverse pool of focus groups, aimed at attempting to understand the perceived challenges and barriers to ‘progression’ in STEM academic careers, at different stages. They are seeking ECR volunteers (within 8 years of Doctorate) to participate in a focus group on Tuesday 15 November starting at 10 am for 90 minutes. For those interested in participating in this important focus group, where you will be able to share your thoughts on the challenges and opportunities that scientists face at
different career stages, please complete their short screening survey.
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Alzheimer's Research UK South West Network Conference
Monday 28 November 2022 (9.30 am - 5 pm)
Location: M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol, BS1 4RN
We welcome you to join us at the Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) South West Network conference, at the M Shed Bristol, on Monday 28 November. We are excited to showcase the current dementia research taking place in the southwest with talks from lead researchers across our member institutions, as well as shorter talks and poster presentations from our early career researchers. Please register your attendance via Eventbrite. Poster presentation submissions are still open – if you would like to submit a poster, please simply indicate on the corresponding Eventbrite ticket question.
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Human Tissue Act Training
This training is mandatory for anyone wishing to store ANY human samples at the University of Exeter. The next session is on Thursday 26 January 2023 (10 am - 11 am) on MS Teams. If you plan to collect informed consent as part of your research, there is also the Informed Consent training held on Thursday 26 January 2023 (11.15 am - 12.15 pm) on MS Teams.
Please contact HTA-return@exeter.ac.uk for further enquiries or to book your place.
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Whose responsibility is social welfare? Interdisciplinary approaches to community welfare and social justice
Monday 27 February 2023 (10 am - 4 pm), 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 for the event here. Reasonable travel and accommodation can be provided by the British Academy.
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Join the UKRSA to help shape the future for researchers
We are looking for new members to join our committee and help shape our next five years.
Do you have something to say about the issues researchers face? We are a volunteer organisation whose mission is to empower researcher staff to take control of their careers and contribute to national policy. To get involved, please contact Alison Tidy (alison.tidy@nottingham.ac.uk) or at UKRSAVitae@gmail.com
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UKRSA representative on the HR Excellence in Research award
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UKRSA representative on the Researcher Development Concordat Steering Group and Executive Group
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Regional UKRSA champions
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National PostDoc Conference 2023 steering group
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Collaboration with the ICORSA with their projects such as the RAISE Project; The OPUS Project and The SECURE Project.
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Research and Researcher Networks |
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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.
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British Academy : Networking for Equality in the Workplace: Bringing Research and Industry Together
Tuesday 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 register for the event here. Reasonable travel and accommodation can be provided by the British Academy.
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Health, Wellbeing & Support |
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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.
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The Concordat - something all ECRs should know about! |
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You can also get the latest Concordat updates and events by signing up to their newsletter when registering with their website.
Already registered and want to receive Vitae News? Contact Vitae direct
See the latest news update on the Concordat here.
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