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April 17, 2024

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024 Open Call – Deadline for Applications Thursday 16 May

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Thank you to everyone who attended our ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024 Information Session, in collaboration with the University of Southampton.

The slides from the session are available here, and if you weren’t able to attend, you can watch the recording here.

The 22nd annual Festival of Social Science will take place this year Saturday 19 October – Saturday 9 November, with the theme ‘Our Digital Lives’

This national festival offers the chance to create an inspiring event which enables you to connect your research in a creative and engaging way with a broad public audience.

For the second year, BU is partnering with the University of Southampton (UoS) and we are particularly keen to hear from researchers who have already established collaborations with UoS colleagues and may wish to run a joint event. This collaboration enables us to run an extended programme of events, broadening our impact reach and expanding our networks across Dorset and Hampshire.

Funding of up to £1,000 per event is available, and BU’s Public Engagement with Research team offers continuing advice and support on all areas of event development, planning, delivery and evaluation.

What is the ESRC Festival of Social Science?

The ESRC Festival of Social Science is an annual, UK-wide, free celebration of the social sciences. The festival consists of a series of events run each autumn, delivered by ESRC’s ‘festival partners’, higher education institutions from across the UK. Events range from exhibitions, lectures, panel debates, performances, and workshops. Bournemouth University has been involved in the Festival for over a decade.

What if I’ve never done public engagement before?

Everyone has to start somewhere, and this is the ideal place. You’ll have access to support, advice and training throughout. If you’re unsure, seek out a more experienced colleague to collaborate with.

Explore previous events from BU and examples from around the country
Start brushing up on how to make public engagement work for you. A great place to start is BU’s own video guide to getting started in public engagement with research (Brightspace). You can also browse guidance and case studies from the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)

Can I apply if I’m not a social scientist?

The ESRC says that events must “feature social science (ideally with a social scientist involved in the event)”. If this doesn’t clearly apply to you, consider these options;

Does your research have clear implications for society that could be explored from a social science perspective?
Could you collaborate with a social scientist, combining your resources and creativity to explore the impact of your research? If you’re looking for a collaborator, the Research Blog or BU website are great places to start or contact us for help

What support will I get?

Being part of this festival means a higher level of support and reach than we usually provide.

Before applying, you’ll have access to:

Advice on request from BU’s Public Engagement Team
The ESRC’s Festival Event Leader pack

When your application is successful, you’ll get:

Funding of up to £1,000 managed by RDS
Training provided by the ESRC Festival of Social Science
Continuing advice and support from BU’s public engagement team on all areas of planning, delivering, evaluating your activity
Wide-scale promotion and marketing of your event by BU, UoS and the ESRC

How to Apply

Apply to take part in the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024 by completing the online application form by midnight at the end of Thursday 16 May 2024.

ESRC’s Festival Event Leader pack

Apply here

Should you require any more information, please contact the team: publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.

April 17, 2024

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

BU research, Events, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement ballen

At BU we promote and celebrate the work done to engage public audiences with our research.

The Public Engagement with Research team in Research Development and Support can help promote your event to relevant audiences through our monthly newsletters and via our social media channels.

To be considered for inclusion, your event or activity must be;

Focused on BU research, either solely or as part of a wider programme. Events or activities that do not involve BU research, such as marketing or recruitment events, will not be accepted.
Intended for and open to non-academic audiences, either entirely or as a portion of the audience.
Submitted, at the latest, in the first two weeks of the month preceding the event. For example, an event taking place in June should be submitted via the form any time before 14 May.

Event descriptions may be edited for consistency in style with other content.

Share your upcoming public event or activity

If you have any questions, please contact the team publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

April 16, 2024

BU academic invited to speak at the SCoT Webinar Volume 57 round table on Promoting Transformational Tourism Through Narrative Art

Business Engagement, Events, Featured academics, Fusion, Global engagement, Uncategorized sstoyanovabozhkova

Dr Svetla Stoyanova-Bozhkova was invited to speak at the SCoT Webinar Volume 57 this week, organised and moderated by Prof. Jafar Jafari and Prof. Kazem Vafadari.

The SCoT Webinar series is a joint initiative of APU Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan), t-FORUM The Tourism Intelligence Forum, NC State University and iCAPt International Center for Asia Pacific Tourism.

The topic of the webinar was PROMOTING TRANSFORMATIONAL TOURISM THROUGH NARRATIVE ART: Destination Brand Stories. The art of storytelling is inextricably linked with tourism development and management. Significantly, every place or destination tells its own story. Storytellers make space into place and places into stories. Tourism research focuses on tourists’ stories to understand their experiences, and this is highly important in the digital age built on social media, immersive technologies,AI, User-generated content, and conversational marketing supported by Web 2.0. Nonetheless, this modernity has also leveraged the capacity of destination brands to make promotional videos embedding the principles of storytelling.

The discussion focused on the link between tourism destinations and storytelling and how the latter helps destination brands promote transformational and responsible tourism, enriching tourist experiences and contributing to the UN SDGs.

The recording of the webinar is accessible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCG4B74ti8k.

April 16, 2024

RKEDF: Writing Academy 18th/19th/20th June 2024

BU research, Events, RKE development framework, Training, writing msimmons

Day 1 – Writing for Publication Workshop – 18 June 2024, 10am-4pm

This workshop covers a range of strategies: targeting a journal, writing to prompts, types of prompt for academic writing, ‘snack’ writing, goal-setting for writing, freewriting, generative writing, analysing academic writing in your field, criteria, writing an abstract, using prompts in series, outlining, dealing with reviewers’ feedback, writing groups, micro-groups and retreats. Many of these can be used to prepare for a concentrated spell of writing at a writing retreat – which follows tomorrow. This is a practical workshop. The aim of the writing activities in this workshop is to let you try these strategies and consider how/if/where/when they could fit into your writing practice. You can use these to write for your article during the workshop, and you have a day’s writing to develop it tomorrow.

Day 2 – Writing Retreat – 19 June, 9am-4pm

Aims – To provide dedicated writing time and develop productive writing practices.

Format

This structured retreat uses the ‘typing pool’ model. We all write at the same time, for fixed time slots, using goal-setting and peer and self-monitoring for our individual writing projects. Because we all write together, we can discuss our goals at the start and end of the day (10-15 minutes). Almost all the retreat time is writing time, with regular breaks.

Learning objectives

1. Understand the Structured Writing Retreat model.

2. Structure a writing day.

3. Maintain well-being during intensive periods of writing.

Day 3 – Free Writing Day

8.45am – 9.00am Tea/Coffee

9.00am – 4.30pm Free Writing

1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch (not provided)

Focused free writing follows the same process but begins with a topic:

• Put a topic of your choice, or even the topic of your next paper, at the top of a blank page.

• Set a time limit and begin free writing. This time, write down things that seem to be related to the topic. Do not worry about order of ideas or grammatical correctness. Don’t worry if the ideas seem to be digressions.

• When time is up, look over what you have written. Pull out ideas and phrases you can use later.

• Practice putting the free writing into outline form. If you were to use the writing to begin a paper, which points would you make first? Second?

Book your place here under ‘Writing Academy’ – 18/06/2024 to 20/06/2024’ in the drop-down menu.

For any queries regarding this workshop, please contact RKE Development Framework

April 15, 2024

Interdisciplinary Computational and Clinical Approaches at the Edge of Brain Research

BRIAN, BU research, BU2025, Events, Featured academics, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team, Research Centres, Research news ebballester

We cordially invite you to the 3rd Symposium of the BU Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Centre on Wednesday, the 12th of June 2024, from 9:30-13:00 at the Inspire Lecture Theatre, Fusion Building (1st floor).

The symposium is entitled: “Interdisciplinary Computational and Clinical Approaches at the Edge of Brain Research”.

This third symposium revolves around contrasting computational and translational methodologies from a cross-disciplinary standpoint, leveraging synergies between BU and our collaborators in other universities and at the NHS. It is an opportunity for informal discussions on grant proposals and to explore shared interests with our external guests. The general schedule is as follows:

9:15. Welcome and coffee.

9:30. Keynote talk: Prof. Miguel Maravall, Sussex University.

10.20-10:40. Coffee and grants discussion.

10:40-11:40. Session I. Integrating Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience.

11.40 -12.00. Coffee and grants discussion.

12.00-13:00. Session II. Interdisciplinary Clinical Approaches & Concluding Remarks.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Ellen Seiss, eseiss@bournemouth.ac.uk or Emili Balaguer-Ballester, eb-ballester@bournemouth.ac.uk.

Thank you very much, and we are looking forward to seeing you there.

Kind regards,

Ellen and Emili, on behalf of all of us.

April 7, 2024

Requests to speak to the media are like buses….

BU research, Events, Featured academics, Global engagement, international, Knowledge Exchange, Research news, Uncategorized Edwin van Teijlingen

Last week for the first time in over a year I received a request for a mass media interview in the UK on our research. On Easter Monday (1 April) I received an email to appear on Sky TV that very evening to speak about migrant workers and kidney health. this seemed to fit in very nicely with our recently completed study on kidney health funded by the charity The Colt Foundation, and our on-going Ensure-Nepal project funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office.

After a lot of hassle and finally speaking to the TV research assistant over the phone it turned out Sky TV really wanted an expert to talk about poor people in South Asia selling kidney, despite what they had put in the email invitation on their interest in kidney health of migrant worker. In the end it felt like a few hours wasted on my Bank Holiday Monday.

Then to my surprise I received a call on Wednesday from BBC Radio Scotland to speak about what babies can hear in the womb and the importance of singing lullabies. Unfortunately, I had to put that request down as this is really not my area of expertise as Professor of Reproductive Health.

Requests to appear on the media to speak about once research seem to be like buses. As the old saying goes, you wait ages for a bus and then two (or more) come along at once. And in this case, NOT only did two turn up, but they were wrong buses anyway!

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH)

March 28, 2024

Café Scientifique Tuesday 7 May 2024 – Showcasing tomorrow’s researchers

BU research, Doctoral College, Events, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, PG research, Postgraduate Research, Public engagement, Uncategorized ballen

At Café Scientifique, you can explore the latest ideas in science and technology in a relaxed setting. Enjoy listening to a short talk before engaging in debate and discussion with our guest speaker and audience

We’ll be joined by four postgraduate researchers from Bournemouth University on Tuesday 7 May 6:30 – 8:00pm.

Come and listen to four postgraduate researchers from Bournemouth University to get an insight into how their research might answer the following questions:

How do Hollywood film-makers create believable fantasy worlds?
What can we do to prevent natural and man-made disasters?
Can we extend the life of Lithium-ion batteries for electric cars?
How do we overcome cultural differences to provide appropriate healthcare?

All the speakers are currently working towards their PhDs and are passionate about sharing their research with the public.

This event will be held at The Black Cherry in Boscombe, Bournemouth. Although the talks start at 6:30pm, the café will be open early so we encourage you to arrive early for a drink and a bite to eat before the talk starts.

If you have any questions about this event please email the Public Engagement with Research Team: publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

March 27, 2024

RKEDF April digest – training opportunities for YOU!

BU research, Events, R & KE Operations, Research Training, RKE development framework, Training jfallows

We’re excited to share some great RKEDF training opportunities coming up in April 2024. 

Click on the titles to find further details and book your place. Details of an ECRN Funding call can also be found at the end……

Online RSA Drop-In meeting   

Wednesday 3rd April, 10:30-11:00, Online 

Meet your RSA reps, hear updates on how BU is implementing the Research Concordat and give feedback or raise concerns that will help to develop and support the research community at BU.

Principal Investigation                                                                    

Wednesday 10th April, 14:00-15:00 at Talbot Campus

This session is aimed at any researcher who is, who plans to be, a Principal Investigator for an externally funded research or knowledge exchange project.  

 Introduction to RED – The Research & Enterprise Database

Thursday 11th April, 10:00-10:30 Online 

An overview of the Research & Enterprise Database and how to use RED to identify your supporting pre and post award officers.  

Engaging with Schools & young people

Tuesday 16th April, 10:00-11:00, online

Engaging young people with the world of research can be a worthwhile and enjoyable experience for everyone involved. You can benefit from the opportunity to develop and put into practice your skills, build confidence and widen your research horizons.

RDS Academic & Researcher Induction

Wednesday 24th April, 09:30-11:00 Online

This event provides an overview of all the practical information staff need to begin developing their research plans at BU, using both internal and external networks; to develop and disseminate research outcomes; and maximising the available funding opportunities.

Impress the Press: How to talk to Journalists  

Wednesday 24th April, 14:00 – 16:00 at Talbot Campus 

A practical session covering tips and techniques for speaking with broadcast media (TV and radio) followed by the chance to put it into practice through mock interviews. No previous experience is necessary.

Introduction to BRIAN

Monday 29th April, 10.00-11.00 at Talbot Campus

This interactive workshop is an introductory session to BRIAN (Bournemouth Research Information And Networking), BU’s publication management system. It is aimed at those who are new to BU or have not updated their staff profile for a while. Attendees will need to bring their laptop.

Research Council Development Scheme (RCDS)

RDS is continuing with the RCDS through April 2024

The RCDS is a coordinated, targeted set of activities designed to inspire and equip BU researchers to achieve greater success with Research Council funding. Attendees have been nominated by their Head of Department

ECRN Funding Call NOW OPEN

The RKEDF and BU ECRN are delighted to offer funding (up to £500) to organise an event, roundtable, meeting, training, or workshop in support of research at BU.

This funding supports BU Early Career Researcher Network members to organise and facilitate an event that can be thematic, subject/discipline based, foster community engagement, knowledge exchange or networking and does the following;

– Brings ECRs and others together to share ideas, knowledge and learning.

– Provides a space for intellectual discussion.

– Helps to facilitate collaboration and future opportunities.

– Enables an opportunity for networking.

For all the details, click on the title above – deadline for submission is Friday 26th April 2024

For any further information, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk 

Please, help us to avoid any waste of resources; make sure you can attend or cancel your booking ahead of the session. 

March 26, 2024

Dementia Care and the dog cafe

BU research, Events, Research Centres, Research news, research staff chemmings

Caroline and Catherine from the Ageing & Dementia Research Centre attended the March dog café at the Potteries Care Home in Poole, Caroline took along her Double Doodle dog called Bailey. It happened to be the same week that Crufts had been on the TV, so it was a special Crufts themed dog cafe. It proved to be the most popular turn out so far with about 15 dogs of all shapes and sizes in attendance – even a human dressed up as a dog! It was lovely to see the ladies from Waggy Tails dog rescue charity and three of their dogs.

The Crufts special dog show included a dog agility course and 3 prize categories
which were:

Best waggy tail
Best in show
Fastest time for the agility course

It proved to be popular with both care home residents and the community alike. Both Caroline and Catherine highly enjoyed the event and formed good contacts to explore further opportunities to develop research around the benefits of animals in dementia care.

Here are a few photos from the event.

March 20, 2024

Q&A event: applying for the ESRC Festival of Social Science

BU research, ESRC, Events, Funding opportunities, Impact, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Amanda Edwards

A fantastic opportunity to showcase your social science research!

Date: Wednesday 17th April

Time: 11:00-12:00

Where: Online (via Teams)

To register, please complete this form.

If you’d like to apply to be part of this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science, and stand the best possible chance of being accepted, come to our online information session. You’ll get essential tips on applying, find out what the ESRC are looking for, and hear from researchers who have previously run successful festival events.

This session is being run jointly by BU’s Public Engagement with Research (PER) team and the University of Southampton’s Impact Funding Team. For more information about what being an event holder involves, have a look at the Event Leader Guidance. You can also contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.

March 20, 2024

Celebration of the Family Science Day in Dorchester

BRIAN, BU research, BU2025, Doctoral College, Events, Featured academics, Fusion, Global engagement, Public engagement Genoveva Esteban

The annual Family Science Day in Dorchester on Sunday, 17th March 2024, was a vibrant celebration of the British National Science Week. This free event aims at making science accessible and engaging for families, providing a platform for learning and discovery in a fun and interactive way. With an attendance of 800 enthusiastic visitors, the event showcased 20 hands-on science stalls. BU was represented by staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. Contributors included Demetra Andreou (Fish Through Time), Amanda Korstjens (Voices in the Jungle), and Genoveva Esteban (Hidden World of Microbes), alongside Kirthana Pillay (postdoctoral researcher) and undergraduate students Dan Stevens and Jacob Tate from the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences. Xun He (Head of MINE Research Cluster, Psychology) and Fred Charles (Head of Department for Creative Technology) led a stall on Measuring Social Behaviour with VR & Brainwaves, with assistance from PhD student Damla Kuleli, research assistant Charlie Lloyd-Buckingham, and BU alumnus Rianna Green. BU Student Ambassador Lily Bater provided exceptional support throughout the day.

Prof Genoveva Esteban annually organises this event in collaboration with Dorchester Town Council, Dorset County Museum, and the Institute of Physics. The success of this event was made possible through sponsorship from the Royal Society of Biology, Dorchester Town Council, the Institute of Physics, and Pilot Regional Funding from Research England. Special thanks are extended to Dr Blanca Pérez-Uz from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, for her valuable contribution to the “Hidden World of Microbes” activity. The assistance and support provided by BU’s Marketing & Communications (Hollye McKenzie and Sabine Turner), along with Events and Communications (Beverly Allen), are also gratefully acknowledged.

March 18, 2024

European Team-based Learning Community (ETLBC) Symposium 2024, Manchester University

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ETBLC Manchester Symposium 2024

Dear Colleagues,

Manchester University will be hosting the prestigious 2024 European Team-Based Learning Symposium in collaboration with the ETBLC. This event presents a unique opportunity for individuals passionate about Team-Based Learning to showcase their expertise by submitting an abstract. Alternatively, you can join us at the symposium to be a part of an engaging and vibrant learning community.

All the necessary information, including the abstract submission process and deadline, can be found on the conference website. Don’t miss out on this incredible chance to connect with like-minded professionals and expand your knowledge in Team-Based Learning!

Submission opens: Monday, 18 March 2024.
Submission deadline: Monday, 8 April 2024.
Notification to submitters: 22 April – 24 April 2024.
Submits revised abstracts and bios: 24 April – 18 May 2024.

March 18, 2024

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

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At BU we promote and celebrate the work done to engage public audiences with our research. The Public Engagement with Research team in Research Development and Support can help promote your event to relevant audiences through our monthly newsletters and via our social media channels.

To be considered for inclusion, your event or activity must be;

Focused on BU research, either solely or as part of a wider programme. Events or activities that do not involve BU research, such as marketing or recruitment events, will not be accepted.
Intended for and open to non-academic audiences, either entirely or as a portion of the audience.
Submitted, at the latest, in the first two weeks of the month preceding the event. For example, an event taking place in June should be submitted via the form any time before 14 May.

Event descriptions may be edited for consistency in style with other content.

Share your upcoming public event or activity

If you have any questions, please contact the team publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

March 14, 2024

RDS Academic & Researcher Induction

BU research, ECR Network, Events, Post-award, pre-award, Public engagement, Research Concordat jfallows

RDS Academic & Researcher Induction – Weds 27th March

This event provides an overview of all the practical information staff need to begin developing their research plans at BU, using both internal and external networks; to develop and disseminate research outcomes; and maximising the available funding opportunities.

Objectives

The primary aim of this event is to raise participants’ awareness of how to get started in research at BU or, for more established staff, how to take their research to the next level
To provide participants with essential, practical information and orientation in key stages and processes of research and knowledge exchange at BU

Indicative content

The induction day will be interactive and give you the opportunity to meet your faculty-facing RDS support, as well as those responsible for strategy, outputs, ethics, impact, public engagement and knowledge exchange. The videos will provide:

An overview of research at BU and how RDS can help/support academic staff
The importance of horizon-scanning, signposting relevant internal and external funding opportunities and clarifying the applications process
How to manage an awarded project and the BU processes
How to develop internal and external research networks
Key points on research ethics and developing research outputs

Book your place here under ‘RDS Academic & Researcher Induction 27/03/2024’ in the drop-down menu.

March 12, 2024

RKEDF: Evaluation of Engagement training with an award winning professional

BU research, Events, Public engagement, research staff, RKE development framework, Training jfallows

Good public engagement benefits both researchers and the public – but what is the best way to measure its success?

Workshop 1: Evaluation of Engagement, Monday 18 March, 1-4pm, F110, Talbot Campus

Workshop 2: Advanced Evaluation, Tuesday 19 March, 9am-12pm, S108, Lansdowne Campus

One of the most experienced public engagement trainers in the UK, Dr Jamie Gallagher, is coming to BU to deliver two training sessions on how to evaluate your public engagement activity.

These in-person workshops will highlight how to demonstrate success for funders, record impact, help you improve your processes and give you a better understanding of the people you are connecting with.

Workshop 1 guides you through the best evaluation processes, showing you when, why and how to use evaluation to provide clear, reliable data.

Workshop 2 builds on the learning, taking a more in-depth look at developing evaluation plans for even the most complex topics. You will explore data capture, analysis and reporting and also learn how to write evaluation reports for funders or the REF.

Book on Evaluation of Engagement here and Advanced Evaluation here, selecting the appropriate session from the drop down menu. NOTE: This is a two-day evaluation training workshop. Although you can choose to do either of the workshops, we highly recommend you do both – you need to sign up for them separately.

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at both sessions.

For any queries, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.

March 7, 2024

Coming soon – apply to be part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024!

BU research, ESRC, Events, Public engagement Amanda Edwards

Are you a social sciences researcher looking for a high-profile opportunity to put on a public engagement event as part of a national festival?

Would you like the chance to receive up to £1,000 funding for your project?

We will shortly be opening the call for applications to take part in this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science, which runs from 19^th October to 9^th November, under the theme ‘Our Digital Lives’.

Key dates:

17 April, 11:00-12:00: online information session for potential applicants (platform TBC)
16 May: deadline for applications

For the second year, BU is partnering with the University of Southampton (UoS) and we are particularly keen to hear from researchers who have already established collaborations with UoS colleagues and may wish to run a joint event.

The festival and our partnership with UoS offers the chance to create an inspiring event which enables you to connect your research in a highly-accessible and engaging way with a broad public audience.

At this stage, we encourage you to familiarise yourself with the ESRC requirements for the festival, and get in touch with any colleagues at UoS who may be interested in running a joint event.

You can also contact the PER Team in RDS to discuss your idea.

For inspiration, have a look at BU’s 2023 festival events and the ESRC’s festival page.

Essential reading:

March 6, 2024

PRME UKI events and open calls for applications for awards

Events, Featured academics mbobeva

You are invited to a Zoom meeting of the PRME UKI (Principles of Responsible Management Education, UK and Ireland) Interest Group on Employability, Sustainability and Jobs of the Future (co-led by Dr Jonathan Louw MCIPD SFHEA and Dr Karen Cripps) that will take place on 13th March from 2.30pm – 4.00pm. This will host Arti Kumar MBE as a keynote presenter to celebrate the close of the ‘Career Story Telling for the Sustainable Development Goals’ workshops.

Arti’s keynote speech will unravel the key features of SOARing to Success as a principled, inclusive and interconnected approach. She will show how staff can animate the four dimensions of SOAR as a process of personalised learning that enables all students to constructively align their aspirations and employability development with sustainable development goals.

The SOAR framework was used to structure the ‘Career Story Telling for the Sustainable Development Goals’ workshop that was delivered at over 20 universities as part of PRME seed funding for pedagogic innovations 2023 (by Karen Cripps, Cathy d’Abreu and Dr Milena Bobeva).The session will include insights from collaborating colleagues and students, share the resources developed through the project, and host an open discussion on approaches to embedding ’employability for sustainability’ within the curriculum. You can read more about the project and collaborators in the link below and the zoom registration link here. To register in advance for this meeting click here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

PRME Global Student Sustainability Awards Open

We are delighted to share that submissions for the 2024 PRME Global Student Sustainability Awards are open!

All Sustainability-oriented student organisations associated with PRME Signatory Members from the PRME Chapter UK & Ireland are encouraged to apply! Submissions should be completed through a SUBMISSION FORM (deadline: 31st March 2024 at 23:59 ET) to be filled by a student organisation representative, who must be a student formally enrolled with a PRME Signatory Member during the 2023 calendar year.

Applicants can find all the information about the Awards structure, submission criteria and requirements by accessing the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – TERMS OF REFERENCE. There, you will see that the PGS Sustainability Awards are divided into two phases: Regional Awards (February to May) and Global Awards (May to June).

Due to a partnership with Marketplace Simulations, on the 18th June 2024, PRME will celebrate the Regional Winners and award the Global Winner during the 2024 PRME Global Forum. On occasion, the student organisation awarded as the Global Winner will receive a USD $2,000 monetary prize to increase the impact of their local initiatives! The PGS Team will host two informational webinars to present the 2024 PGS Sustainability Awards and answer any questions regarding the application processes. Please find below the registration links to these informational sessions:

Informational Webinar 1 – 8th March, 12.00 to 13.00 CET (register here)

Informational Webinar 2 – 18th March, 17.00 to 18.00 CET (register here)

PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024

The Calls for Proposals are open for the PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 ‘Educating for Deep Transformation: Business Schools’ contribution to a Greener, Healthier, Fairer Society’ to be held at the University of Exeter 19th-21st June 2024.

Submission Deadlines:

Doctoral Colloquium: Tuesday 12th March 2024

Conference: Tuesday 19th March 2024

Details of the Calls can be found here.

Additional information can be found in the link below.

2024 PRME Faculty Teaching Awards: Applications are Open

The PRME Faculty Teaching Awards recognize excellence in teaching sustainable development and responsible management practices in business education. They seek to honour innovative and impactful pedagogical contributions that advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and align with the pedagogical interests of the PRME community.

Eligibility: Faculty at PRME Signatory institutions from all levels and disciplines. Applications can be submitted from individuals or as a team application of no more than six.

Submissions close: 31st March 2024. For more details click here.

March 5, 2024

Research Leadership training: Leading the Development of a Project for Funding

Events, research staff, RKE development framework, Training jfallows

Research Leadership: Leading the Development of a Project for Funding

Monday, 11/03/24, 13.00-15.00

We are all told to bid, to ensure that bidding for research funding is a normal part of academic life. This is especially the case for those in, or moving into, research leadership roles. But, where and how do you start? What are the key points to consider? How do you develop competitive ideas and what are the key ingredients in developing a bid? In this session we draw on the expertise of an external consultant, Dr Stephen Kemp, and BU’s Professor Michael Silk to explore the key elements to consider when thinking about leading the development of a project for funding. Particular emphasis will be based on:

Demystifying bidding, research leadership & project development through the lens of funding applications: developing research questions, choosing partners, incorporating impact and more
The key ingredients for (and the ‘balancing act’ of) leading the development of a project for funding
The lived experience (and successes and failures, challenges and benefits) of leading the development of a funded project (at BU!)
Using the RASCI matrix and GANTT charts

Book your place for this exciting event here. For any queries, please contact RKE Development Framework

Category / Events

What support will I get?

How to Apply

ESRC’s Festival Event Leader pack

Apply here

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

BU academic invited to speak at the SCoT Webinar Volume 57 round table on Promoting Transformational Tourism Through Narrative Art

RKEDF: Writing Academy 18th/19th/20th June 2024

Book your place here under ‘Writing Academy’ – 18/06/2024 to 20/06/2024’ in the drop-down menu.

For any queries regarding this workshop, please contact RKE Development Framework

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