Researchers – teachers – learners. We’re all in this together.
London, 27^th – 29^th March 2012

Society for Experimental Biology @SEBiology in association with the Higher Education Academy @HEAcademy
#SEBEd12 http://ow.ly/7yveE

CALL for papers – deadline 16^th January 2012.
REGISTRATION now open.

This meeting is ideal for postdoctoral researchers who teach and those who want to network with the higher education teaching community. Themes include:  Students as researchers; Postdoctorals/postgraduates who teach; Learning as research; Peer learning and learning communities; Innovating assessment and feedback; Increasing engagement; International education links; Action research in biological sciences.

Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC)

8 - 9 June 2011, University of Salford

SPARC is free to attend and is open to postgraduate researchers and research staff from all universities, different subject areas and at any stage of their research. It is really an ideal place for researchers to share practices, explore new ideas, present and promote research to new audiences. We are inviting a wide range of presentation formats (demonstrations, screenings, exhibitions, readings, papers, posters etc.) to accommodate practice-based and applied research as well as more traditional research. SPARC 2011 call for abstracts is now open.  The deadline for submission is 31 March 2011.

Link: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/916-337681/Salford-Postgraduate-Annual-Research-Conference-SPARC.html

FAO all research staff and postgraduate researchers:

The annual Vitae Yorkshire and North East Hub Public engagement competition is back

April 6^th 2011

Durham Town Hall

10.00 – 16.00

This competition provides you with the opportunity to show case your research through the medium of Poster, Pecha Kucha presentation or research image and caption. The key is to be able to do it in a way that is engaging and understandable for a non subject specific audience.

With judges coming from a range of disciplines and organisations from outside Higher Education. Judges confirmed so far include:

Systagenix wound management

Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies

Dream Laboratory Ltd ( a new start up company)

Marketwise Strategies Limited

Society for Experimental Biology

The KSA Partnership
Researchers in Residence

Beacon NE (the Public Engagement Beacon)

To find out more information (and exactly what a pecha kucha is!) go to www.vitae.ac.uk/ynepec11

Careers in academia in the Social Sciences

21^st March 2011

Leeds

09.30 – 17.30

Are you considering your career options? Are you thinking about where you'd like to be, next year? in five years time? Are you considering working in an academic environment?

Like most careers, there are many elements that make up a career in academia, and you need specific skills to succeed in what can be a very competitive environment. This course is your chance to find out what really is involved, what skills and strengths it will take to succeed, and to decide if this is the career for you.

It is designed to be informative and interactive to enable you to:

- Find out about academic career paths and options
 - Explore the skills and competencies required to succeed in Academia
 - Network with people who work in the sector, to find out what it's really like, and how to succeed.

If you’re interested and want to find out more go to www.vitae.ac.uk/yneciass

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Applications are invited from inter-institutional teams of postgraduate researchers and/or early career researchers within the Yorkshire and North East region for organising a short-term, well-defined conference or event. The event can be subject-specific, interdisciplinary or generic in nature but must have a clearly defined transferable training element to it. The grant available is up to £1500.

If you are interested in applying for this grant please click on the link. Closing dates for applications will be 18th March 2011

www.vitae.ac.uk/yneconferencegrant

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Are you involved in researcher development and training?
Do you have an interest in information and data handling?
Are you based in Yorkshire or the North East?

If the answer is yes, you are invited to join a regional network which is being launched on Monday 14th February 2011 at the Research Beehive in Newcastle. It is endorsed by the RIN and Vitae.

The network aims to connect professionals from a range of sectors such as academia, data management, graduate training programmes, information policy and librarianship. It will promote communication on a virtual basis; provide a forum to meet in person and discuss relevant issues, reports and research, present examples of good practice in researcher development and facilitate collaboration on training for both professionals and researchers.

The event will involve a workshop on the nature of the network to get your input into its development and how it should evolve in the coming year.

The network is free to join and there will be no charge for attending the event

Please book using the online form by Monday 7 February: http://tinyurl.com/NEYorksinfoprofsnetwork

Kind regards

Dr Victoria Willett

Vitae Yorkshire and North East Hub Manager
1.35a Graduate Training and Support Centre (SDDU) – Parkinson Building – University of Leeds – Leeds – LS2 9JT
Tel +44 (0)113 3436659 – email yorksandnehub@vitae.ac.uk – web www.vitae.ac.uk

Dear all,

iCeGS has been funded by Vitae to run a pilot project on the use of Bill Law's 3 Scene Storyboarding technique with researchers. They are looking for participants to take part in the pilot. This will involve being talked through the technique and then piloting the technique with your clients/researchers, sending back feedback from the process as a whole.

Bill Law's three-scene storyboarding is a narrative-based technique for setting down experience. By reflecting on 'before, during and after' movie-like scenes of a particular turning point in a person's life processes encompassing thoughts and feelings are elicited and clarified. Such reflection ultimately promotes a greater self awareness, leads to a clarification of career goals, and aids decision making and transitions.

Please visit http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs/research/vitae-storyboarding-project for further information or contact Tristram Hooley at T.Hooley@derby.ac.uk or Kieran Bentley at K.Bentley@derby.ac.uk to talk through the pilot.

ESRC RDI Workshop 1 developing the international dimension in social research

The first workshop in the series of ESRC RDI Workshop provides an introduction to international social research and explores the reasons why social researchers develop an international dimension in their work. Participants will looks at the different meanings attributed to international social research and identify key challenges and ways of overcoming them. The day includes a session on accessing the British Library's international collections.

Part of Workshop Series, 13 December 2010, 12-13 January 2011, 14 February 2011

Workshop 1: Developing the international dimension in social research  (13 December)   

Workshop 2: Designing comparative international research (12 January)                        

Workshop 3: Conducting international comparative research (13 January)                      

Workshop 4: Managing international social research (14 February)                                  

These workshops address the nature and challenges of international social research. They are designed to meet the needs of early career researchers and research managers (at postdoctoral or equivalent level) who are engaged in, embarking on or using research with an international dimension. They will be of interest to researchers in all sectors: academia, local and central government, government agencies, voluntary and independent organisations.

Applications can be for individual workshops or for the whole series.

The fee for all 4 workshops is £375 (substitutes are permitted within organisations)

£200 for workshops 2 and 3; and £125 and for individual workshops.

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