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ECR Newsletter - November 2023
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Images of Research Competition 2023 – Opens Friday 3 November 2023!
Deadline to submit entries - Friday 5 January 2024.
Our Images of Research Competition provides you with the opportunity to communicate your research to a non-specialist audience. The competition - now in its tenth year - has received hundreds of entries over that time, showcasing the breadth of research undertaken at the university through a single, visually-engaging image and short, jargon-free description. Entries will be displayed across all three campuses. We’re hoping to display further afield in the Spring too.
To celebrate the competition’s 10th year, there will not only be prizes for the top three entries, but a special Arts and Culture commendation will also be awarded, enabling the recipient a permanent online exhibition.
The deadline to submit entries is Friday 5 January 2024; further information including how to enter and submission guidance can be found on our website.
The Images of Research Competition is one of the ways we seek to support our Early Career Researchers. You can find out more about how we support a positive research culture on our Research Culture SharePoint site.
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ECR Researcher Development Programme
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1:2:1 Careers Appointments with Kenneth Howgill – Researcher Development Careers Coach (ECRs)
Unsure of your future career direction either within Academia or beyond Academia? Kenneth Howgill, (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.
Kenneth can offer advice and discuss how to manage and plan your career and has timeslots through to December. If you have any queries, please contact ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.
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Interview Coaching Opportunity
In addition to 1-2-1 career coaching covering career planning and progression, Kenneth also offers support in preparing for job interviews, both for academic roles and positions outside of the university sector. This can include coaching on strategies for preparing to attend an interview (whether these be online or face to face) as well as going through potential questions using a practice interview format. Click on the button below to book your timeslot (these are the same as the normal 1:2:1 Career Coaching timeslots). Once you have booked your timeslot please contact Kenneth directly (k.a.howgill@exeter.ac.uk) with documentation on the role and application details.
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Learning and Development Opportunities: University of Exeter and Beyond
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Professor Geeta Patel: In Conversation In-Person Event
Monday 6 November 2023 (4 pm - 5.30 pm)
Streatham Campus, IAIS Common Room
This PGR/ECR event, organised by The Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI), with the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) offers a chance to meet Professor Geeta Patel (Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia) and listen as she discusses her research, which focusses on the themes of decolonisation, gender, sexuality and finances. An opportunity for a Q&A will follow. Refreshments including drinks and pizza will be provided.
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Decolonising on Notice: Returning Pensions to Colonial Paupers
Tuesday 7 November 2023 (11.30 am - 1.30 pm)
Hybrid Event : Streatham Campus, Knightley Boardroom and via Teams.
A Keynote Lecture by Professor Geeta Patel (University of Virginia). The Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI) invites Professor Geeta Patel (Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia) to the University of Exeter as a keynote speaker, discussing her research on decolonisation and pensions.
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Public Engagement with Research Speaker Series
Engagement Through Comedy!
Wednesday 8 November 2023 (12.30 pm - 2.30 pm)
Hybrid event : Streatham Campus, The Forum, Seminar Room 9 and via Teams.
An opportunity to bring together those with an interest in comedy and engagement to share expertise, network and consider what purpose comedy serves.
Format : Speaker panel with Q&A (accessible in-person or over Teams). Click here to join the meeting on MS Teams (followed by small group discussion (in-person only unless people joining remotely want to have their own group discussion online).
Contact PER@exeter.ac.uk if you plan to join in-person or help plan the event and refreshments.
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Early Career Data Science Lightning Talks; introduce yourself and your interests – with pizza!
Thursday 9 November (3.30 pm - 5 pm)
Streatham Campus, Laver LT3
Are you a PGR or ECR with an interest in data science? If so, please join us for an informal lightning talks session where everybody will have 1 minute and 1 slide to say who they are and what they do (but you don’t have to present if you don’t want to). We hope this will help to (figuratively) break down the walls between departments, so please get involved.
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Wedndesday 15 November 2023 (2 pm - 6 pm)
The Multifaith Chaplaincy Team are leading a free tour of the city’s faith spaces - meet at the Student Information Office in The Forum.
We will be welcomed into four faith spaces to look round and learn about each other’s faiths and practices. The tour will end with refreshments and a chance to meet faith leaders who were not represented on the tour. It is open to all students, staff and friends, whether they follow a faith or not.
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Introduction to Julia 3-Part Workshop (In Person Only)
Deadline to apply: Friday 17 November
Dates: 24 November (Part 1), 1 December (Part 2) and 5 December (Part 3)
Streatham Campus, Digital Humanities.
The Coding for Reproducible Research are running a 3-part workshop on Introduction to Julia (Part 1 on 24 November 10.30am-12.30pm; Part 2 on 1 December 10.30am-12.30pm and Part 3 on 5 December 10.30am-12.30pm). All sessions will take place in Digital Humanities, Streatham. Registration is on a first-come-first-serve basis and deadline is Friday 17 November. Please note that this is an in-person only workshop.
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20 - 24 November 2023
The GW4 Alliance, an alliance of four of the UK’s most research-intensive and innovative universities: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, is hosting the inaugural GW4 Open Research Week for 2023.
The week will take place from 20 - 24 November 2023, and focuses on the theme of the Theory of Change, showcasing a broad range of open research practices which make research more accessible, transparent, reproducible and visible.
Highlight for the GW4 Open Research Prize (deadline extended to 14 November 2023), submissions from all internal researchers (including postgraduate research students) in all disciplines across the four Alliance universities are welcome. Prizes of £250 will be awarded for the best submissions across four categories: Improving Quality; Widening Reach; Poster Session and Early Career Researcher (ECR) Monograph Prize.
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Introduction to Bioimage Analysis in ImageJ - Workshop
Wednesday 29 November 2024 (1 pm - 5 pm)
St Luke's Campus, 2.13 South Cloisters.
Are you using imaging in your scientific research?
Would you like to do more with your images?
Join this hands-on workshop, and learn how to extract quantitative data from images. No image analysis experience required and the workshop will cover:
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Basic principles of bioimage analysis
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Image processing for making figures
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Image segmentation
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Quantitative image analysis
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Starting to automate analysis pipelines
Computers will be provided, but there will also be space to accommodate laptops if you'd prefer to bring your own (if so, please download Fiji in advance).
Places will be limited, so please sign up in advance by registering below.
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Join the Inclusivity Matters! Committee 2023-2024 (Penryn Campus)
The Committee organises events focusing on EDI topics to build awareness and support on campus. Last year 2 successful events were organised exploring Disability and Accessibility, and Race and Decolonisation. Funding has been secured to continue this academic year. Next event is on Gender Identity and Inclusion in November.
The Committee is a friendly group of postgrads, undergrads and staff. Committee members help to shape the events, including themes and speakers - perhaps you have an idea for an event you haven't see on campus? This might be a chance to organise it! Helping with the committee does not require extensive commitment and you do not have to be based at Penryn. The Committee meets once a week, you can be involved as much or as little as you would like.
If you think you would like to be involved, or have any questions, please email inclusivitymatters@exeter.ac.uk.
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Young Professionals Scheme (YPS) from India-UK Migration and Mobility Partnership
Young Professionals Scheme (YPS), agreed as part of the India-UK Migration and Mobility Partnership, offers UK citizens between 18-30 years of age to come to India to live and work for up to 2 years. For eligibility criteria and further information click here.
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Research Grants, Funding & Competitions
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£4000, Process-driven Creative Research Project Opportunity for Cornwall-based ECRs!
Call opens : Wednesday 15 November 2023
Deadline Date : Wednesday 31 January 2024
The application process for the next round of funding for the FX Creative Exchange will open on 15 November 2023. Join the launch event to find out about the application process and criteria, meet possible collaborators, and hear from the academic and professional services team behind the initiative.
FX Creative Exchange - Launch Event and Pre-call Announcement
15 November (12 noon - 2 pm) ESI (lunch included).
The FX Creative Exchange is an exciting transdisciplinary £4000 incubator programme supporting collaborations between early-career/emerging researchers across Falmouth and Exeter Universities around the themes of ecology, creativity, sustainability, and environment.
There will be funding for one project in 2024.
Image : "Looking for Technomyrmex albipes, The Eden Project'. From the FX Creative Exchange pilot project 'Mapping Emergence' between Falmouth University Lecturer in Photography Dr Catarina Fontoura and Dr Thomas O'Shea, Research Fellow at the University of Exeter © Catarina Fontoura, 2023.
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Call Opens : Wednesday 29 May 2024
Deadline : Thursday 29 August 2024
ERC grants support projects carried out by an individual researcher who can employ researchers of any nationality as team members. It is also possible to have one or more team members located in a non-European country.
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Standard research grant: 2024
Round 1: responsive mode
Call Opened : Monday 30 October 2023
Deadline : Wednesday 17 January 2024
This scheme supports excellent investigator-led research across the breadth of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit.
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Finding the Way to better Research Culture: Improving Retention and Success of Academics from Underrepresented Backgrounds
Wednesday 29 November 2023 (12 noon - 2 pm)
Hybrid Event : Streatham Campus, Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1 and via Teams.
This workshop is for ECRs and Senior Academics. Presented by Dr Lucy Yeomans (School of Education, HASS) and Dr Sanja Djerasimovic (History, HASS), this workshop focusses on the impact of research culture on academics from underrepresented backgrounds in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity, and other sociocultural features. Drawing on new research and wider literature, participants will improve their understanding of the intersection of challenges faced by these groups and generate new ideas to improve their retention and success. This is in connection with REF28.
Photo by John Schaidler on Unsplash
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Research & Researcher Networks
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Centre for Research in Language & literacy - Language Education Network: Multilingualism and Education: ‘Languages Local to You’ (Roundtable event)
Wednesday 15 November 2023 (2.30 pm - 4 pm)
Streatham Campus, SWIoT Building
This event aims to celebrate the diversity of languages and their impact on education, in connection with the ‘Languages Local to You’ Project. During the roundtable, various topics will be explored related to multilingualism, the landscape of teaching and learning languages in the UK today, minority language education, and the opportunities and challenges of multilingualism in education. Renowned experts in the field have been invited who will share their insights and experiences.
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Embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in research practice
Thursday 16 November 2023 (10 am - 12 noon)
Online via Zoom.
The aim is to bring together British Academy Early Career Research Network members, experts and British Academy Fellows interested in EDI to collaboratively share and discuss current research, practice and theory within our respective fields of study. The overall event goal is to stimulate discussions which will lead to collaborations and develop interdisciplinary research projects addressing issues of EDI in research such as disability (including chronic health conditions), gender, LGBTQ+ identities, neurodivergence, parenting, race and religion.
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Exeter University - Early Career Researcher Networks (ECRNs)
Next meeting for your diary:-
Wednesday 7 February 2024 (10 am - 11 am).
The Network Meetings 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. Action Notes from the last meeting held on Wednesday 4 October 2023 are below.
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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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Mindfulness is a powerful practice of training our attention and an evidence-based way to tackle anxiety, stress and low mood. If you’re interested in exploring more, there is a variety of free internal options available for all colleagues. Sessions from the internal Mood Disorders Centre mindfulness team include an eight-week MBCT-L course (2hrs weekly) an eight-week ‘deeper mindfulness’ course for those who’ve completed the MBCT-L course and bespoke ‘healthy mind’ sessions for whole teams, which can be delivered in-person or online.
You may also be interested in trying mindful meditation in 30 min online sessions each Thursday lunchtime. This is a secular practice run by the Chaplaincy.
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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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