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ECR Newsletter - September 2024
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Research Staff Development Programme
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Learning and Development Opportunities: University of Exeter and Beyond
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Skills Development for Early Career Researchers
Deadline for Survey - Sunday 15 September 2024
Creative skillsets underpin all research disciplines and can be improved through self-efficacy. Skills such as ideas generation, problem solving, collaboration and communication are highly valued in research culture, and creative thinking is the second most important skill for employers globally (World Economic Forum, 2023).
Sarah Campbell, Associate Director for Arts and Culture, is seeking feedback from all ECRs (self-defining), across all faculties, for their views on creative skills development – what role does it play in your current post, and how might it support future career progression?
I hope the survey will only take 10-15 minutes. Your feedback is much appreciated and will help shape upcoming creative skills development programmes.
This research is being conducted as part of a PGDip/MBA at the Business School.
Reference; World Economic Forum. (2023). The Future of Jobs Report (https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/)
Image Credit: Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Workshop: An Introduction to Developing and Evidencing Wellbeing Impact
Wednesday 18 September 2024 (10.30 am – 12.30 pm)
St Luke’s Campus, EMS Building S09 and Online.
This event is now sold out on Eventbrite. To attend online, please email Professor Simon Hayhoe (s.hayhoe@exeter.ac.uk).
The impact our research has on the communities we work in is an increasing part of academic research, and evidence of impact is increasingly required by research funders, institutions, governments, and participants in research. If you work in an academic field related to developing well-being, join us for a practical workshop on planning your research or public engagement project to generate impact, gathering evidence to evaluate your impact, and communicating your impact as a case study. This event aims to bring together individuals interested in developing impact in the field of well-being and involves the analysis and discussion of impact case studies that were developed for REF 2021.
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NPAW - Exeter Event - The Strategic Researcher
Wednesday 18 September 2024 (1 pm – 3 pm) - Online.
Join leading practitioner, researcher and cognitive behavioural coach Hugh Kearns as he shares his insights on what it means to be a strategic researcher. Are you wanting to get a grant, but not sure how to approach it strategically? Or despite getting the grant and getting the research done, do you find it hard to achieve the publication outputs? And if you do publish, how strategic are you about it - do you just do the next paper on the list or do you think about which one will help with your next grant or be read by more people or have greatest impact?
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Does ‘who you know’ really matter for your career?
Thursday 19 September 2024 (11.30 am) - Newman Blue LT
The EMPS2 Network invites you to join them as we ask our panel of STEM academics and professionals: Does ‘who you know’ really matter for your career? They will share their own experiences of and advice for building and making the most of formal and informal networks, to best support you at university and beyond… This insightful panel discussion and Q&A session will be followed by a free lunch at 12.30 pm, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet other undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and lecturers from across the Engineering, Mathematics and Physics departments.
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Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group (JPAG) - Research Awards and Careers Symposium - Deadline Extended
Extended Deadline for abstracts/posters - NOW Monday 23 September 2024.
Research Awards & Careers Symposium - Tuesday 12 November 2024 - London.
JPAG (Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group) is delighted to announce their annual Pharmaceutical Analysis Research Awards & Careers Symposium event which will be held on Tuesday 12 November 2024 at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) headquarters in Burlington House, London. JPAG has been hosting this event for pharmaceutical researchers and early career industrial scientists for several years and is now welcoming abstracts for presentations/posters for the 2024 edition. We are encouraging all early-career pharmaceutical scientists to submit abstracts for podium presentations or posters via the JPAG website before the deadline (Saturday 31 August 2024). Selected abstracts will be entered into the prestigious Geoffrey Phillips Award for best podium presentation, with prizes for runner-up and best posters too.
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The Online Panel Meeting - Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements
27 September 2024 (3 pm) - save the date!
In this panel, we discuss how to replan or relocate climate affected settlements, making them more harmonious with nature and resilient to climatic effects, and how data science and artificial intelligence can assist us in this. More information will be communicated through the IDSAI mailing list over the coming weeks. Colleagues can subscribe to the mailing list by contacting idsai@exeter.ac.uk.
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Emotionally Challenging Research: impacts, coping and proactive interventions
Wednesday 30 October 2024 (12 noon - 3.30 pm) - Online
This online workshop introduces a practical toolkit, providing resources and guidance to support researchers, supervisors and organisations in managing the emotional aspects of their work and progressing towards a strategic approach to researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging topics. It is structured into three parts. The first part of the webinar will explore the impacts of emotionally challenging research, presenting our findings on the symptoms experienced by researchers. The second part will focus on coping mechanisms and interventions and will give you an opportunity to start using our resources and write your own Researcher Wellbeing Plan. The third part introduces a set of tiered recommendations for institutional support, categorised into Bronze, Silver, and Gold standards, offering a phased approach to their implementation. We will then discuss where your institution fits
in relation to these standards, and we will explore further one of the resources, the guidance on risk assessment and mental health.
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Human Tissue Act & Informed Consent Training Sessions
Tuesday 22 October 2024 (10 am - 11 am) - Online
Are you removing, storing or using any human tissue for research or teaching? The Human Tissue Act (HTA) training is mandatory for anyone working with human tissue samples at the University of Exeter.
Tuesday 22 October 2024 (11.15 am – 12.15 pm) - Online.
If you plan to collect informed consent as part of your research, you need to attend the Informed Consent training.
Please contact Christine on HTA-return@exeter.ac.uk for further enquiries or to book your place. Both sessions can be attended by ECRs and PGRS. We also welcome anyone who has attended the training over two years ago but is not currently involved in taking samples or consent, as a refresher. There is no registration deadline or booking limit.
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Postgraduate Pedagogies Volume 5 - call for abstracts (and reviewers)!
Deadline for abstracts : Friday 25 October 2024.
Abstracts and expressions of interest are currently being accepted for the fifth issue of Postgraduate Pedagogies (https://postgradpedagogies.lse.ac.uk), from Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), and staff who work closely with GTAs. If you are interested in writing for Postgraduate Pedagogies, please submit a 250-word abstract through the journal submission system by 25 October 2024. If your abstract is accepted, we aim to receive your full paper by the 17 January 2025. Issue 5 is scheduled to be published July 2025.
You are inited to a live Zoom information event for prospective authors that will explain the publishing process, what support we can provide and to answer any questions or concerns on 16 September 2024 (4 pm - 5 pm) GMT. In this, we also offer insight of the screening process and the criteria that your article is measured against. Registration is open here.
Any questions contact postgrad.pedagogies.journal@gmail.com. Abstracts are received through our online submission portal, please submit via https://postgradpedagogies.lse.ac.uk where you will need to ‘start submission’ and register an account.
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Mid-Career Resaercher Training Programme
4 Part course taking place on:
7, 14, 21 & 28 November 2024 (all 11 am 1 pm) - 0nline
Building on last year’s RAIL (Rethink; Attain; Include; Lived experience) Report on the challenges facing Mid-Career Researchers (MCRs), University of Exeter will be running a training programme to develop the skills and knowledge of Mid-Career Researchers to enable them to succeed in their careers. This training is run by Professor Kelly Pickard-Smith and Professor Amy Bonsall. Kelly and Amy are humanities PhD holders and are honorary professors at University of Kent, award-winning academic charity directors and long-time champions of Mid-Career Researchers.
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'Focus Space' - Improve Your Productivity!
We would like to give you a warm welcome to our regular 'Focus Space' online sessions which run from 10 am - 12.30 pm 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, open to staff researchers, from Early Career Researchers onwards, can be accessed via the same Teams link.
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. Facilitating is considered part of 'teaching practice' for Fellowship levels of the Higher Education Academy!
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Sign up for the Impact Community of Practice Mailing List
The University is supporting the creation of an Impact Community of Practice (ICoP) to strengthen and further develop its impact culture. The ICoP will create learning opportunities and spaces for researchers, encourage peer-to-peer support and more generally increase impact literacy across the University (with support from the Research Services Impact Team). If you would like to be kept up-to-date about future ICoP activities, please submit your response by using the button below.
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Think Productive has over 30 useful, free short skill webinars covering topics from 'How to Conquer Email Overload' through to 'Confident Leadership for Hybrid Teams'. For upcoming free webinars click here.
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Research Grants, Funding & Competitions
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Engaged and Participatory Research Funding Scheme 2024-2025
Deadline for Expressions of Interest: Saturday 14 September 2024.
Deadline for full application: Friday 11 October 2024.
This scheme is now open for the 2024-2025 academic year. The fund focuses on supporting public involvement and engagement, and participatory research. A total fund of £70,000 is available and applicants can apply for funding from £500 up to £10,000.
Following submission of the Expression of Interest, all applicants will be required to speak with the
Engaged Research Manager and/or Regional Engagement Manager (per@exeter.ac.uk) prior to completing additional questions in the Full Application.
Applications welcomed from academic and professional staff from all levels. We also welcome applications from members of the community, but the application must include a co-applicant from the University of Exeter.
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CALLOUT – would you like to host a Creative Fellow in the 2024/2025 academic year?
Expressions of Interest Deadline - Sunday 22 September 2024 (12 midnight).
The University of Exeter’s Arts and Culture team are funding two £6,000 Creative Fellowships between January – July 2025 based at the Exeter campuses. Lasting 4-5 weeks, these Fellowships are not about finding artists to illustrate or disseminate existing research but look to develop more collaborative and creative relationships and explore how different fields of expertise and practice can successfully interact for mutual benefit. Expressions of interest are open to all academic and professional services staff and close at midnight on Sunday 22 September. If you’re interested in knowing more, join the Arts and Culture team for an informal online session on Wednesday 11 September 2024 (2.30 pm - 3.30 pm).
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Seed Corn funding Call for academic year 2024/25 is now open for applications.
Deadline for Applications: Monday 25 November 2024 (12 noon)
The aims of the Seed Corn Fund are to support HASS led challenge-facing and innovative research projects, where there is a clear and convincing pathway to an externally funded research project application.
Priority will be given to those project proposals with the ambition to develop research practice that reaches beyond the conventions of the base discipline, drawing on exciting and novel knowledge, methods and specialist skills. Please email societiesandcultures@exeter.ac.uk to request a Seed Corn Funding Application Form. Should you have any queries, please also email societiesandcultures@exeter.ac.uk.
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Opens : Wednesday 2 October 2024.
The APEX award (Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary research award) scheme offers established independent researchers, with a strong track record in their respective area, an exciting opportunity to pursue genuine interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research to benefit wider society.
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ERC Consolidator Grants 2025
Opens : Thursday 26 September 2024
Consolidator Grants provide support for researchers who want to establish or have recently created a research team and want to continue to develop a successful career. They should have a promising track record of early achievements appropriate to their research field and career stage. They will still be building their independent research team or programme.
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Andrew Cunliffe has created this Funding Finder platform which signposts hundreds of funding opportunities that will be of interest to current community members looking to undertake research, fieldwork, conference visits or exchanges with our partner organisations worldwide. It has easily searchable listings and awards ranging from £100 to £10,000,000.
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Research Not Been Assessed Fairly? We’d Love to Hear from You
We want everyone’s contribution to research to be fairly recognised; that means using expert (ie, peer) judgement when assessing others’ research, and not inappropriately relying on journal impact factors or other proxies for the value and impact of research.
We have developed a confidential feedback form where you can tell us if you feel your research or your team/discipline’s research has been unfairly assessed. For example, it may be that you feel the wrong measures were used, the impact of your research was not fully appreciated, or the journal/publisher of where your research was published was (mis-) used to judge its quality. This information will be used to understand the scale and diversity of issues relating to research assessment at Exeter. These real-world examples will inform advice notes and University policies that encourage a high-quality research culture and help meet our EDI goals.
Find out more about responsible metrics and their importance in making research assessment fairer for all.
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ECR Town Hall Events in Cornwall and Exeter – register your attendance now!
We are pleased to confirm the dates of the next in-person ECR Town Halls:
Cornwall Event - Tuesday 10 September 2024 (11.30 am - 1 pm)
- Penryn Campus, Daphne Du Maurier Bldg, Seminar Room L
Exeter Event - Wednesday 11 September 2024 (3.15 pm - 4.45 pm) - St Luke’s Campus, South Cloisters, Room 306
The Early Career Researcher (ECR) Town Halls take place termly and provide an informal opportunity for ECRs to meet in-person to build community, socialise, share experiences and network. The event is open to any researcher at the university who identifies as early career (including research-only staff, education and research / education and scholarship staff, and postgraduate researchers). Anyone interested in attending must register beforehand. Light refreshments will be served at the event.
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Research & Researcher Networks
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Information Session: ECRN Seed Funding Call
Information Events:-
Wednesday 18 September 2024 (12 noon - 1 pm) - Zoom
Monday 23 September 2024 (12 noon - 1 pm) - Zoom
Each year, the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network runs a Seed Funding programme, where Network members can apply for up to £5,000 to conduct research. This initiative aims to enhance research skills, with the hope of enabling members to leveraging further research opportunities and securing additional grant funding in the future. The scheme will open on 25 September 2024, with awards being made in March 2025. Projects will need to be completed within six months.
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⚓ Join the Penryn Campus Sea Shanty Choir! 🎵
Every Wednesday (1 pm – 2 pm) - Penryn Campus, Stella Turk Seminar Room. Starts Wednesday 2 October 2024.
Calling all seasoned sailors and landlubbers alike! Come and join our relaxed and friendly singing group for a weekly maritime singsong, guided by local musician and singer Charlotte Cripwell. Enjoy the mood-boosting effects of group singing while having fun and learning some traditional Cornish sea shanties!
Brought to you by the Cornwall Wellbeing Network.
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Research & Researcher Blogs
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Health, Wellbeing & Support
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The Five Ways to Wellbeing are evidence-based actions that we can all take to support our wellbeing. Click on the button below to read how taking these steps can help you feel more possitive and able to get the most out of life.
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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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