Latest research and knowledge exchange news at Bournemouth University
There are spaces available at the following sessions for BU staff. To find out more and to book, simply follow the link to BU intranet and log in:
This Wednesday – 4/7/18:
Forthcoming…
11/7/18:
12/7/18:
24/7/18:
Are you considering applying for a fellowship that has an interview as part of the application process?
Does that concern you or even deter you from applying?
Then, come along to the full day Fellowship Interview Training session on Thursday, 5th July.
This workshop is aimed primarily at ECRs but may be of benefit to all academics and researchers wishing to apply for fellowships that require an interview. This intensive event will introduce the Royal Society University Research Fellowship scheme and go through eligibility, requirements and assessment criteria as well as the a chance to practice interview skills, so you’ll get an insight into every step of the application process.
This session will be facilitated by an external expert.
On Wednesday, 4th July 2018, BU’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Office invite BU staff to attend the event – Engaging with a Business Audience.
This interactive one-day workshop aims to equip you with the necessary skills to be proficient and confident when communicating with a business audience. The key learning outcomes are:
This event will be delivered off-campus but within the Bournemouth area. The event is a full day so those booking will be expected to attend for the full duration, with catering provided for attendees.
Reserve your place and find out how you can bring your research to the attention of industrial stakeholders and potential partners!
Every year, the Research & Knowledge Exchange Office, along with internal and external delivery partners, runs over 150 events to support researcher development through the Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF).
Responding to your feedback and by popular request, below are the main events coming up over the next two months – please click on the event titles that are of interest to find out more and reserve your place as soon as possible:
JUNE 2018
Wednesday 6th June – STEAMLab – Virtual problems – See this Blog post on how to Apply for a place
Monday 11th June – Research impact and the Research Excellence Framework (REF): an introduction
Wednesday 13th June – REF 2021 Guidance – Q&A session
Thursday 14th June – Royal Society – Bid Writing Retreat
Wednesday 20th June – BRIAN, Open Access and the Impact Module
Wednesday 27th June – Preparing for Brexit
27-29 June – Writing Academy – Summer
JULY 2018
Wednesday 4th July – US Funding Day (Federal & Charities)
Wednesday 4th July – Targeting high quality journals
Wednesday 4th July – 10 ways to increase the impact of your paper
Wednesday 4th July – Writing an academic paper
Thursday 5th July – Fellowship interview Training – Royal Society
Wednesday 11th July – Introduction to bibliometrics
Wednesday 11th July – Advanced Bibliometrics – Using bibliometrics to understand research impact
10/07/18 – 11/07/18 – Marie Sklodowska Curie – MSCA bid writing retreat (2 days)
Thursday 12th of July – Writing and presenting for non-academic audiences (ECR session) *New*
Monday 23rd July – The Writing Academy – Writing day
Tuesday 24th July – Preparing impact case studies for the Research Excellence Framework: a workshop
To see all the events within the RKEDF and the wider Organisational Development offering, please refer to the handy Calendar of Events.
Additionally if you are a PGR please visit the Doctoral College Researcher Development Programme for your own special tailored events.
The Research & Knowledge Exchange Office is pleased to confirm our arrangements for supporting this high profile call in 2018.
Support
Timeline
As this is a highly popular call, RKEO need to manage carefully the flow of work within RKEO but also for all your colleagues, who work together to ensure that each application is approved and submitted correctly.
Please endeavour to submit your Intention to Bid to RKEO by 29/06/18. You can, of course, let us know earlier than this date that you intend to apply, so that we can provide you, and your potential fellow, with as much support as possible, right up to the closing date of 12/09/18. It is expected that early drafts should be made available for review and approval processes around the beginning of August, allowing time for all those involved to manage their workloads, including Faculty Quality Approvers, who may be on leave during this period, reducing the options that we have for approvals.
Communication
Once we know that you are thinking of applying, even before submitting the Intention to Bid, we can keep you up to date with announcements from the funder and other sources of help and support.
If you are considering applying and would like to receive updates, please contact Sara Mundy, Funding Development Officer, so that we can register your interest and provide useful information, such as the indicative timetable for actions prior to submission. If you are ready to submit your Intention to Bid, you can do this now, via Sara.
If you have any queries or comments about this scheme, please contact Emily Cieciura, RKEO’s Research Facilitator: EU & International.
As part of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Development Framework Community’s move to our new area on Brightspace, the slides and associated materials from the visit by Robert Porter, PhD, are now available to BU staff. The sessions were:
Please note – although you will be able to access other pathways, these have been directly transferred from MyBU and are not in their final format with additional activities yet to be added, as we plan our provision for the coming year. Instead of removing access for now until all is finalised, these have been kept as published so that, despite their ‘work in progress’ status, you can still access them. Please be patient with us as we develop and improve your researcher development resources.
If you have any problems accessing these materials, please contact RKEO.
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office (RKEO) through the Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF) has a number of workshops in the coming 
months to assist you in developing and enhancing the impact that you can make with your research, with particular reference to the REF.
Please follow the links above to find out more and to book. You will then receive a meeting request giving the room location. Many of these events have input from external presenters; please ensure that you are in the room and ready to commence at the given start time.
If you would like to discuss impact outside these workshops, please contact the RKEO Knowledge and Impact Team.
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office (RKEO) through the Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF) has a number of workshops in the coming months to assist you in developing and enhancing the impact that you can make with your research, with particular reference to the REF.
Please follow the links above to find out more and to book. You will then receive a meeting request giving the room location. Many of these events have input from external presenters; please ensure that you are in the room and ready to commence at the given start time.
If you would like to discuss impact outside these workshops, please contact the RKEO Knowledge and Impact Team.
Calling BU’s Early Career Researchers and Post Doc Research Assistants!
RKEO are gauging interest for a proposed externally-facilitated workshop. Please let us know if you would attend a workshop that will:
Please let us know by Friday, 11th May, via this email. If we have positive replies, we would look to run this one-day event in mid to late June (TBC).
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship Interview Training
Monday, 14th May 2018 – 09:30-16:00
This workshop is aimed primarily at ECRs but may be of benefit to academics and researchers wishing to apply for RAE fellowships that require an interview. This intensive event will introduce the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship scheme and go through eligibility, requirements and assessment criteria.
Attendees will think about how they fulfil these criteria, start to plot ideas for a proposal and consider whether the Fellowship is right for them. There will even be a chance to practice interview skills so you’ll get an insight into every step of the application process.
For the future, there will also be a similar workshop for the Royal Society on 5th July 2018. You can book now for that event too.
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office (RKEO) through the Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF) has a number of workshops in the coming months to assist you in developing and enhancing the impact that you can make with your research, with particular reference to the REF.
Please follow the links above to find out more and to book. You will then receive a meeting request giving the room location. Many of these events have input from external presenters; please ensure that you are in the room and ready to commence at the given start time.
If you would like to discuss impact outside these workshops, please contact the RKEO Knowledge and Impact Team.
Do you wonder how best to engage with pre-award processes at BU?
Are research application finances a bit of a mystery?
Does the costing side of your research application deter you from applying?
Are you not quite sure where to start?
If so, then come along to these sessions on Wednesday, 18th April at Talbot Campus:
Please follow the links above to reserve your place at as many of these events as you are able to attend. You will then receive a meeting request confirming the location of each session.
If you need help outside these workshops, please contact relevant member of the Funding Development Team in the Research & Knowledge Exchange Office.
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office (RKEO) through the Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF) have a number of workshops in the coming months to assist you in developing and enhancing the impact that you can make with your research, with particular reference to the REF.
Please follow the links above to find out more and to book. You will then receive a meeting request giving the room location. Many of these events have input from external presenters; please ensure that you are in the room and ready to commence at the given start time.
If you would like to discuss impact outside these workshops, please contact the RKEO Knowledge and Impact Team.
None of us can avoid meetings…
Then think how magnificent it would be if every single one was purposeful and powerful – sharing information, making decisions, identifying actions – but just without there being so many of them, or them taking so long!
In this session, we’ll use the 9 Characteristics of the Productivity Ninja™ to inspire change in your meeting skills, and you’ll identify specific ways your team can implement each of them, providing the opportunity to think about what makes effective, productive and fun meetings, and gives you the ideas and tools to make that happen.
Find out more and book your place now for the afternoon of Wednesday, 18th April 2018. This session, for BU Staff, will be at the Lansdowne Campus, with the location given in your booking confirmation.
Please also take a look at the external facilitator’s video, which introduces this workshop.
Find out about further events from the RKEDF and other Organisational Development workshops on the Staff Development & Engagement Events Calendar.
BU’s PR team (M&C) and Knowledge Exchange & Impact Team (RKEO), are jointly hosting an intensive research communication day on 23rd May 2018. The event is intended to be a one-stop shop for learning how to communicate your research and who you can get help from within BU. Subjects covered will include: planning and promoting your Festival of Learning event, practicing in our radio studio and in front of a camera, writing for the research website and sharing your research via social media.
The day is in development with indicative content including:
Places for this event are likely to fill up quickly, so please do book your space now.
Do you wonder how best to engage with pre-award processes at BU?
Are research application finances a bit of a mystery?
Does the costing side of your research application deter you from applying?
Are you not quite sure where to start?
If so, then come along to these sessions on Wednesday, 18th April at Talbot Campus:
Please follow the links above to reserve your place at as many of these events as you are able to attend. You will then receive a meeting request confirming the location of each session.
If you need help outside these workshops, please contact relevant member of the Funding Development Team in the Research & Knowledge Exchange Office.
There are still some spaces remaining at the following Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework events in the next three weeks. Book now, using the links below:
Find out about further events from the RKEDF and other Organisational Development workshops on the Staff Development & Engagement Events Calendar.
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office (RKEO) through the Research & Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF) have a number of workshops in the coming months to assist you in developing and enhancing the impact that you can make with your research, with particular reference to the REF.
Please follow the links above to find out more and to book. You will then receive a meeting request giving the room location. Many of these events have input from external presenters; please ensure that you are in the room and ready to commence at the given start time.
If you would like to discuss impact outside these workshops, please contact the RKEO Knowledge and Impact Team.
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