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9 February 2024

RKEDF Evaluation of Engagement workshops coming up in March: book now

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Training Amanda Edwards

Evaluation of Engagement
Mon 18 March, 1-4pm, Talbot Campus

Advanced Evaluation
Tues 19 March, 9am-12pm, Lansdowne Campus

Sign up for a place on these workshops, delivered by Dr Jamie Gallagher, one of the most experienced public engagement trainers in the UK. Jamie has previously provided training sessions for BU researchers in evaluation and communication, which have been extremely well-received by attendees:

‘Informative and highly relevant to research practice’

‘Insightful and useful session’

‘Benefitted from meeting and learning from other people’s experiences. Glad to have the opportunity to do this’.

Evaluation of Engagement

This workshop will highlight what you need to ask yourself, and the public, to ensure you can demonstrate the success of your intervention and capture the long term impact of it.

Successful public engagement can benefit research, researchers and the public – but how do you go about demonstrating this change? This workshop will guide you through the best evaluation processes, showing you when, why and, crucially, how to use evaluation to provide reliable, clear data. It will highlight how to demonstrate success to funders, record impact for the REF, help improve your processes, and give you a better understanding of the people you are connecting with.

To book a place on this workshop, please complete the booking form.

Advanced Evaluation

Taking an in-depth look at evaluation, participants will explore data capture, analysis and reporting. From surveys to focus groups, you will learn how to format powerful questions and report meaningful data. Discover how to develop evaluation plans for even the most complex topics. You will also learn how to write evaluation reports for funders or for the REF. This workshop requires good base knowledge of evaluation, ideally from attending the previous Evaluation of Engagement workshop.

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

NB: While we recommend you attend both sessions, you may judge the first session on its own as appropriate for your needs. However, as the advanced session will build on the knowledge and skills gained in the first session, we do advise against only attending the second.

If you have any queries about either session, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.

26 January 2024

Free Training – Preparing for Impact in REF 2029

Public engagement, Training Adam Morris

A reminder that the three-part webinar series from hivve titled Preparing for Impact in REF 2029 starts next week.

Following the December 2023 announcement from UKRI that REF would be postponed until 2029, this free series is aimed at UK academics who want to get to grips with research impact in general, what the REF requirements are, and how they can begin preparing to ensure maximum success and minimal stress for the 2029 assessment.

The hivve team has been working with institutions since REF 2014 to help prepare for the impact element of the assessment, including the development of Impact Case Studies (ICS), and we are looking forward to sharing our experience with you in the new year.

31/01/24

9:15-10am GMT

Introduction to Research Impact, Impact Case Studies (ICS) and the Research Excellence Framework (REF)

Research impact from REF 2014 to 2029 – a look at how the guidelines and expectations have evolved
What is impact? An exploration of key definitions + the Logic Model
Preparing academics, Impact Officers/Managers and Research Officers/Managers for REF 2029

28/02/24

9:15-10am GMT

Engaging with Stakeholders and Collecting Data and Evidence

Understand how to identify your stakeholders
Recognise the impact data you should collect and what you should start recording immediately
Learn what evidence to gather and how to approach capturing this

10/04/24

9:15-10am GMT+1

Structuring Compelling Impact Case Studies (ICS) for REF 2029

Understand what a 4* Impact Case Study looks like
Identify key dos and don’ts and top tips
Learn how to run valuable internal mock reviews of Impact Case Studies

16 January 2024

RKEDF Workshop- Anatomy of an Impact Case Study

Training Katerina Kakaounaki

Anatomy of an Impact Case Study

This workshop is aimed at Academics and Researchers who would like to learn what an excellent REF impact case study looks like and how to start building your own case study from scratch.

We will look at the different sections of a case study and what is required for each one, then examine impact case studies from previous REFs to establish what the panels are looking for. We will then move on to thinking about what you would need to do to start building your own impact case study.

By the end of this session you will be familiar with the structure of an impact case study, what makes an excellent case study and what you will need in order to start building an impact case study from your own research.

Thursday 22nd February, 13:00 – 15:00 at Talbot Campus

Book your place here under ‘Impact Essentials: Anatomy of an Impact Case Study – 22/02/2024’ in the drop-down menu

For any queries regarding this workshop, please contact impact@bournemouth.ac.uk

16 January 2024

Work Life Balance – ECRN workshop

Training Katerina Kakaounaki

Work Life Balance

This session is aimed at Academics, Researchers and PGRs with an interest in discussing work/life balance within Academic roles and careers.

The session aims to discuss approaches to setting and maintaining healthy work/life balance whilst also managing the demands of their role.

It will follow an open, discursive model and invite responses from ECRs with input from the Academic leads.

By the end of the session, attendees will have acquired knowledge of models and techniques to healthy professional practice with regards to time management, wellbeing and working practices, and have had the opportunity to discuss their specific circumstances with peers and experienced Academic mentors.

Book your place here

under ‘ECRN: Work Life Balance – 07/02/2024’ in the drop-down menu.

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

15 January 2024

Free research impact training from Fast Track Impact

Training Adam Morris

Free sessions from Fast Track Impact on preparing for REF2029, scoping an ethics of engagement and impact, integrating impact into your next funding bid and influencing policy. Book soon as some of these events only have a few spaces left.

Preparing for REF2029

Date: 5 February, 2024

Time: 10:00 – 13:00

This session will help you monitor, evaluate and evidence your impact.

Key benefits:

Learn about evidence-based principles for delivering research impact when you don’t have much time
Discover easy and quick-to-use templates you can use immediately to:
- Prioritise who to engage with first
- Create a powerful impact plan that will guarantee your research makes a difference without wasting your time
Learn how to monitor, evaluate and evidence impact convincingly in your case study
Discover easy and quick-to-use tools to fix problems with significance or reach in case studies
Find out what makes a 4* impact case study, based on research into high versus low-scoring cases in REF2014 and a worked example showing the anatomy of a 4* claim from REF2021
Discuss impact plans that might develop into REF2028 case studies with colleagues

Book

Scoping an ethics of engagement and impact

Date: 26 February, 2024

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

As governments and funders around the world invest in the impact of research as an unquestioned good, there are growing concerns around the ethics of pursuing impact.
Should University ethics committees consider engagement and impact plans for projects that are working on controversial topics or with vulnerable groups – even if their research doesn’t involve human subjects and so would not normally fall under their jurisdiction?
How should researchers and their institutions manage issues such as:
- Undeclared conflicts of interest (e.g., arising from funding and promotion outcomes from the Research Excellence Framework in the UK)
- Positive bias in the presentation of impacts (e.g. research leading to economic impacts via questionable ethical practices that also led to significant harm to the environment or human rights), and
- Concerns about how vulnerable individuals and groups have been used to generate or corroborate impacts?

Book

Integrating impact into your next funding bid

Date: 20 May, 2024

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

Learn how to increase your success rates and integrate impact into your next research proposal

Key benefits:

Discuss insider tips and tricks, and get bid writing tools to help you co-produce your next proposal with the people most likely to benefit from your research.
Discuss examples of impact sections from real cases for support
Learn how to integrate impact convincingly with your proposal, using a mapping approach to ensure your impact goals map onto your impact problem statement, beneficiaries and impact generation activities, whilst managing risks and assumptions.
Power all of this with a systematic stakeholder analysis and impact logic model that will make it easy to articulate specific and credible impacts.

Book

Free training: Influencing policy

Date: 2 September, 2024

Time: 10:00 – 13:00

This session is based on research by Prof Reed and the latest evidence on how to get research evidence into policy.

Key benefits:

Discover quick and easy tools you can use immediately to:
- Prioritise which policy actors to engage with first and how to instantly get their attention
- Create a powerful impact plan that will guarantee your research makes a difference without wasting your time
Discuss how to design an effective policy brief, infographic or presentation
Learn how to get your research into policy, wherever you work in the world, by building trust and working with intermediaries
Be inspired by primary research and case studies

Book

Free training: The Productive Researcher

Date: 2 December, 2024

Time: 10:00 – 13:00

Find out how you can become significantly more productive as a researcher in a fraction of your current working day.

Key benefits:

Leave with practical tools you can use immediately to prioritise limited time to achieve more ambitious career goals
Gain a deeper understanding of the values that underpin your work, and the reasons why you feel time pressured
Identify priorities that are as much about being as they are about doing, and that are stretching, motivational, authentic, relational and tailored to your unique strengths and abilities
Turn these into an “experiment” to make practical changes that create a positive feedback loop between your priorities and your motivation, so you can become increasingly focussed and productive

Book

9 January 2024

Forum on Post-Federalisation Health System Strengthening

Fusion themes, international, Training, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

Today and tomorrow our research team is engaged in discussions with those responsible for running the health system at different levels of the new federal system in Nepal. The aim today and tomorrow of this participatory research project is bring together stakeholders from all levels of government (local, provincial and federal), to develop solutions, practical actions and recommendations for different levels of the political system to address some of the five areas our research identified as possible priorities. Nepal changed from a centralised political system of government to a federal system in 2015. It is easy to see how such change in the political system might affect the organisation, funding, governance, human resources, etc. of all sub-systems in society, such as the education system, the police, and in the area of our particular interest, the health system.

This interdisciplinary study started just before COVID-19 in 2020 and is now coming to a conclusion. The multi-national research team includes researchers from Nepal: MMIHS (Manmohan Memorial Institute of Sciences) in Kathmandu, and PHASE Nepal (Bhaktapur), the University of Sheffield, Bournemouth University, and the University of Huddersfield (the original UK applicants), and researchers currently based at three further UK universities: the University of Greenwich, the University of Essex and Canterbury Christ Church University. This exciting research is funded by the Health System Research Initiative, a UK collaboration between three funders: the MRC (Medical Research Council), the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and the Welcome Trust.

4 January 2024

Intellectual Property for Academics

Business Engagement, Training Katerina Kakaounaki

Wednesday 24th January 10:30 - 12:00

This workshop will deliver essential knowledge and know-how from an industry expert, enabling you to gain a deeper understanding of IP that will support development of your research outcomes, prepare you for knowledge exchange activities and help with achieving lasting research impact.

Presented by Dr Nicholas Malden, Partner at D Young & Co, a leading top-tier European intellectual property firm and Bournemouth University’s preferred patent firm.

Nick Malden has more than 18 years’ experience in intellectual property specialising in patents, in particular those concerned with electronics, physics, materials, medical devices, and software. Prior to joining D Young & Co he was a research associate at Manchester University, though based at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), in Hamburg, Germany, where his research included searches for exotic particle production in positron-proton and electron-proton collisions.

Today, he is primarily focussed on the preparation of new patent applications and guiding these through the examination process before patent offices around the world. His clients range from SMEs, to academic and research institutions, to global multinationals. A particular passion is sharing knowledge of IP in all its guises with individuals and smaller corporate entities, such that it can enhance and support their technological and commercial growth journeys.

Wednesday 24th January10:30-12:00 at Talbot Campus

To book onto this session, please complete the booking form

For any queries regarding the content of this session, please contact lhutchins@bournemouth.ac.uk, for any other information please email RKEDF @ RKE Development Framework

23 December 2023

Paper published on ‘living evidence’

international, open access, Publishing, Training, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology published today carries an article on so-called ‘living evidence’ as an on-going synthesis approach that provides up-to-date rigorous research evidence [1]. This short research methods paper argues that living evidence is particularly useful in rapidly expanding research domains, uncertain existing evidence, and incorporating new research evidence that may impact policy or practice, ensuring that health worker, managers and health-policy makers have access to the best, i.e. the most recent evidence.

The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology is an Open Access journal, and hence freely available to researchers across the globe. The paper has been co-authored by researchers from the Denmark, Qatar, Mauritius and the UK.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health (CMWH)

Reference:

Sathian B., van Teijlingen E., do Nascimento I.J.B., Khatib M.N., Banerjee I., Simkhada P., Kabir R., Al Hamad H. (2023) Need for evidence synthesis for quality control of healthcare decision-making. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 13(3):1288-1291. DOI: 10.3126/nje.v13i3.61004

15 December 2023

Upcoming opportunities & training for policy influencing

Public engagement, Training Amanda Edwards

Final round-up of the year from Parliament

The following opportunities to engage with policymakers and Parliament have been compiled by UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU). If you’d like to be kept up to date, you can also subscribe directly to KEU’s weekly round-up:

Book now for policy workshop & networking lunch: 26 January

Facilitated by the Knowledge Exchange Lead at the UK Parliament, this workshop is aimed at those with little to no experience of engaging with Parliament. It includes information-sharing and practical tasks, designed to help you take the first steps in engaging with policy through Parliament. This is a hands-on session and you will need to bring a laptop and/or smartphone.

There will also be the opportunity to network with colleagues from AECC University College and AUB during lunch after the session has ended.

Sign up here by Thursday 4 January 2024.

7 December 2023

Promoting interdisciplinary research

conferences, international, Publishing, REF Subjects, Training, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

This week’s Bournemouth University (BU) advertised a forthcoming event in February 2024 ‘Early Career Researchers and Interdisciplinarity in the Medical Humanities – South West‘. To promote this event I would like to highlight some papers published recently by BU academics on interdisciplinarity.

First, Dr. Shanti Shanker in the Department of Psychology and Dr. Pramod Regmi in the Department of Nursing Science and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen in the Department of Midwifery & Health Sciences published the paper ‘The Interdisciplinary Team Not the Interdisciplinarist: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research’ [1]. This interesting paper is co-authored with two BU Visiting Faculty, Ms. Jillian Ireland, Professional Midwifery Advocate in Poole Maternity Hospital (University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust) and Prof. Padam Simkhada based at the University of Huddersfield. This paper argues that interdisciplinary working is within the team, not the person being interdisciplinary . Multidisciplinary teams provide unique opportunities for researchers from different disciplines (and hence different ways of working and thinking) to collaborate with one another. We need to be careful not to try to create interdisciplinarists, or at least, not too many. The worlds needs people who are strong in their discipline and open-minded/flexible/reflective enough to see the value of other people’s disciplines.

Secondly, the Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences published our editorial ‘Public Health is truly interdisciplinary’ [2]. This editorial was largely written to counteract some of the jurisdictional claims made in Nepal by certain people in Public Health. These claims express themselves in arguments around the question whether Public Health is a single academic discipline or a broad interdisciplinary profession comprising many different individual academic disciplines. There are two quite distinct and opposing views. Some argue that Public Health is a broad-ranging single discipline covering sub-disciplines such as Epidemiology, Management, Medicine, Nursing, Health Psychology, Medical Statistics, Sociology of Health & Illness and Public Health Medicine. Those who support this argument, typically see: (a) Public Health is the overarching dominant discipline, which brings these sub-disciplines together; and (b) that a true Public Health practitioner amalgamates all these individual elements. Others argue that Public Health is more an overarching world view or interdisciplinary approach for wide-ranging group of professionals and academics [2]. In this view some Public Health professionals are first trained as clinicians, others as psychologists, health economists, health management, statisticians, or demographers, and so on and have later specialised in Public Health.

Thirdly, doing multidisciplinary research is not without its problems, hence we reflect on some of these in the paper ‘Interdisciplinary Research in Public Health: Not quite straightforward’ [3]. The authors are BU’s Dr. Pramod Regmi, Dr. Nirmal Ayral in the Department of Nursing Science and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen, and BU Visiting Professor Padam Simkhada and BU graduate Dr. Pratik Adhikary (currently at the University of the West of England). We all are Public Health researchers, with very different educational backgrounds and training, reflecting the diversity of and interdisciplinarity in the field. Several of us have a first degree in Education or Health Education, but one has a first degree in Sociology. Whilst four of the five authors have Master degree in Public Health and/or Health Promotion, two have a Master in Education. Most of the authors have a Ph.D. in Public Health, but again the Ph.D. of one of us is in Sociology. The key point is that we are all working in Public Health.

Unfortunately the ‘Early Career Researchers and Interdisciplinarity in the Medical Humanities – South West’is for ECRs from the South West Hub only.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMWH

References:

Shanker, S., Wasti, S.P., Ireland, J., Regmi, P., Simkhada, P., van Teijlingen, E. (2021) The Interdisciplinary Team Not the Interdisciplinarist: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research, Europasian Journal of Medical Sciences 3(2):1-5.
Wasti, S.P., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P. (2020) Public Health is truly interdisciplinary. Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences 6(1): 21-22.
van Teijlingen, E., Regmi, P., Adhikary, P., Aryal, N., Simkhada, P. (2019). Interdisciplinary Research in Public Health: Not quite straightforward. Health Prospect, 18(1), 4-7.

29 November 2023

What is the impact of doctoral research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences?- Online Event from the UKCGE

PG research, Training amoyse

Online Event from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

The UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) is the representative body for postgraduate education and research. As BU is a member of the UKCGE, staff can attend online events free of charge.

See below for details on next week’s online event:

Session

Details

Date, Time & Book

What is the impact of doctoral research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences?

This online discussion, run in collaboration with The British Academy, will examine the impact of doctoral research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

6 December

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

This event may be of interest to research degree supervisors and academic and professional staff who support our PGRs.

27 November 2023

Workshop on cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication

Business Engagement, Fusion, international, Student Engagement, Training amorrison

Thursday 7 December 2023, 13.00 – 15.00, F305 (Talbot campus)

This workshop is for anyone working with international students at BU, (both academic and professional services staff) who would like to learn more about cross-cultural communication. Look out for another blog post on spotlight sessions on India and Nigeria the following week on 12 December, with participation from the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).

The workshop objectives are:
• To increase awareness of the importance of intercultural communication in the higher education context.
• To provide you with practical strategies for integrating cross-cultural communication skills into both your written and verbal interactions with international students.
• To promote a culturally inclusive environment that benefits both students and staff.

The workshop will include:
• Exploring cultural theory and how this informs our interactions with international students
• Discussing ‘culture shock’ and its potential impact on students
• Practical tips about how to communicate effectively with international students

Facilitated by:
Caroline Earth, Orientation and Cultural Adaptation Officer
Jana Kuncova, Head Of International Mobility And Experience
Alastair Morrison, Head of International Partnerships

Tea & coffee will be provided.
For more information and to register, please look at BU’s Organisational Development page.

23 November 2023

Book your place now for a policy influencing workshop (and networking lunch!)

Knowledge Exchange, Training Amanda Edwards

RKEDF: Engaging with Parliament for Impact 26th January, 10:00-14:30, Fusion Building

Sign up for this practical training session led by Sarah Carter-Bell, Knowledge Exchange Manager at UK Parliament, which also provides the opportunity to network with colleagues from AECC University College and Arts University Bournemouth.

This is particularly suitable for those with little or no experience of engaging with Parliament. As well as providing insights and information on how to get your research in front of the right policymakers, the session will provide time for you to identify key committees or APPGs relevant to your research, start a list of key contacts and write an introduction to a Parliamentary team.

If you have any specific questions you would like addressed during the workshop, please email them to impact@bournemouth.ac.uk by 5pm, Thursday 4th January.

Lunch is provided. Please indicate if you have any dietary requirements.

For full details of the session and to book, click here.

22 November 2023

What is REF

REF Subjects, Training Katerina Kakaounaki

The Research Excellence Framework (REF), is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

This introductory session is aimed at anyone who wants to know more about the REF and what is means for research and researchers at BU. It will provide an overview of the REF, it’s purpose and how it is carried out, as well as looking ahead to the next REF2028 assessment.

What is REF : Wednesday 6th December

from 13:30 – 14:30 at Talbot Campus

Book your place here – under “What is REF – 06/12/2023” in the drop-down menu

For any queries regarding the content of this session, please contact RKE Dev Framework

15 November 2023

Administrative Checks for Examiners of Vivas: Right to Work Checks and Other Challenges- Online Event from the UKCGE

PG research, Training amoyse

Online Events from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

The UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) is the representative body for postgraduate education and research. As BU is a member of the UKCGE, staff can attend online events free of charge.

See below for details on next week’s online event and an upcoming event in December:

Session

Details

Date, Time & Book

Administrative Checks for Examiners of Vivas: Right to Work Checks and Other Challenges

This online discussion will examine some of the administrative issues faced by institutions in ensuring that examiners of vivas are appointed in an appropriate manner. For example a number of institutions have reported challenges with right to work checks for viva examiners. This discussion, led by the University of Westminster and held under the Chatham House rule, will allow colleagues from across the sector to share and discuss their own, and other institutions’, approaches in this area.

22 Nov 2023

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

What is the impact of doctoral research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences?

This online discussion, run in collaboration with The British Academy, will examine the impact of doctoral research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

6 December

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

These events may be of interest to research degree supervisors and academic and professional staff who support our PGRs.

8 November 2023

Administrative Milestones to Support On-Time Completion – Online Event from the UKCGE

PG research, Training amoyse

Online Events from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

The UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) is the representative body for postgraduate education and research. As BU is a member of the UKCGE, staff can attend online events free of charge.

See below for details on next week’s online event:

Session

Details

Date, Time & Book

Administrative Milestones to Support On-Time Completion

This online Town Hall discussion will focus on ways to improve completion rates amongst PGRs. Using a new initiative at the University of Sheffield as a starting point, attendees will have to opportunity to discuss & share challenges & successes in instigating administrative processes to support PGRs & their supervisors to completion.

15 Nov 2023

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

A reminder the following online events are coming up and may be of interest to research degree supervisors and academic and professional staff who support our PGRs:

Session

Details

Date, Time & Book

Administrative Checks for Examiners of Vivas: Right to Work Checks and Other Challenges

This online discussion will examine some of the administrative issues faced by institutions in ensuring that examiners of vivas are appointed in an appropriate manner. For example a number of institutions have reported challenges with right to work checks for viva examiners. This discussion, led by the University of Westminster and held under the Chatham House rule, will allow colleagues from across the sector to share and discuss their own, and other institutions’, approaches in this area.

22 Nov 2023

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

What is the impact of doctoral research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences?

This online discussion, run in collaboration with The British Academy, will examine the impact of doctoral research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

6 December

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

8 November 2023

Sign up for workshop on how to engage policymakers with your research

Knowledge Exchange, Training Amanda Edwards

RKEDF: Engaging with Parliament for Impact, Fri 26th Jan 2024, 10:00-14:30

This session will be led by Sarah Carter-Bell, Knowledge Exchange Manager at UK Parliament and is an introduction for researchers who have limited or no experience of engaging with Parliament.

As well as providing insights and practical information on how to get your research in front of the right policymakers, the session will provide time for participants to identify key committees or APPGs relevant to their research, start a list of key contacts and write an introduction to a Parliamentary team.

This training event is open to academics at AUB and AECCUC, as well as BU, and there will also be an opportunity to network over lunch with researchers from these institutions to discuss potential collaborations.

If you have any specific questions you would like to be addressed during the workshop, please email them to impact@bournemouth.ac.uk by no later than 5pm Thursday 4th January.

For full details of the session and to book, click here.

25 October 2023

Supporting Neurodivergent PGRs – Online Event from the UKCGE

PG research, Training amoyse

Online Events from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

The UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) is the representative body for postgraduate education and research. As BU is a member of the UKCGE, staff can attend online events free of charge.

See below for details on tomorrow’s online event:

Session

Details

Date, Time & Book

Supporting Neurodivergent PGRs

The online discussion session will examine issues surround how best to support neurodivergent PGRs. Attendees will also have opportunity to share and discuss challenges & successes in supporting neurodivergent PGRs in their own institutions.

26 Oct 2023

13:00 – 14:00

Book now

A reminder the following online events are coming up and may be of interest to research degree supervisors and academic and professional staff who support our PGRs:

Session	Details	Date, Time & Book
Administrative Milestones to Support On-Time Completion	This online Town Hall discussion will focus on ways to improve completion rates amongst PGRs. Using a new initiative at the University of Sheffield as a starting point, attendees will have to opportunity to discuss & share challenges & successes in instigating administrative processes to support PGRs & their supervisors to completion.	15 Nov 2023 13:00 – 14:00 Book now
Administrative Checks for Examiners of Vivas: Right to Work Checks and Other Challenges	This online discussion will examine some of the administrative issues faced by institutions in ensuring that examiners of vivas are appointed in an appropriate manner. For example a number of institutions have reported challenges with right to work checks for viva examiners. This discussion, led by the University of Westminster and held under the Chatham House rule, will allow colleagues from across the sector to share and discuss their own, and other institutions’, approaches in this area.	22 Nov 2023 13:00 – 14:00 Book now
What is the impact of doctoral research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences?	This online discussion, run in collaboration with The British Academy, will examine the impact of doctoral research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.	6 December 13:00 – 14:00 Book now

Category / Training

Evaluation of Engagement Mon 18 March, 1-4pm, Talbot Campus

Advanced Evaluation Tues 19 March, 9am-12pm, Lansdowne Campus

Evaluation of Engagement

To book a place on this workshop, please complete the booking form.

Advanced Evaluation

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

Anatomy of an Impact Case Study

Thursday 22nd February, 13:00 – 15:00 at Talbot Campus

under ‘ECRN: Work Life Balance – 07/02/2024’ in the drop-down menu.

Preparing for REF2029

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Scoping an ethics of engagement and impact

Integrating impact into your next funding bid

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Free training: Influencing policy

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Free training: The Productive Researcher

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Final round-up of the year from Parliament

Book now for policy workshop & networking lunch: 26 January

Sign up here by Thursday 4 January 2024.

Online Event from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

RKEDF: Engaging with Parliament for Impact 26th January, 10:00-14:30, Fusion Building

For full details of the session and to book, click here.

What is REF : Wednesday 6th December

from 13:30 – 14:30 at Talbot Campus

Online Events from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

Online Events from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

RKEDF: Engaging with Parliament for Impact, Fri 26th Jan 2024, 10:00-14:30

For full details of the session and to book, click here.

Online Events from the UKCGE: Free to BU Staff

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