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Research Professional Broadcast Demonstrations
*Research Professional is pleased to invite researchers to the next session in our Broadcast Demonstration series. This will take place via Microsoft Teams on the 18th April 2023 and will focus on the research funding agencies of the European Commission. The session will provide an introduction to the *Research Professional platform, demonstrate how to locate funding opportunities matching research interests, and show how to set up email alerts to stay informed of new developments.
This session will be tailored for the academics at CCCU.
Introduction to Smaller Funders and Early Career Funding for Research
Course: Introduction to Smaller Funders and Early Career Funding for Research
Date: Wednesday, 6th July 10-12
Venue: Online
Supplier: Stephen Kemp
Overview: This stand-alone session offers general principles of applying for research funding to smaller funders such as charities and Trusts, as well as early career funding opportunities such as new investigator grants and fellowships with Research Councils. It is delivered by Dr Stephen Kemp, a Research Funding and Impact Consultant and previous portfolio manager for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with over 15 years’ experience advising universities and researchers on how to win research funding – see https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stephenckemp and http://www.stephenckemp.co.uk/
RSVP by June 24th: researcherdevelopment@canterbury.ac.uk
New Deal for Postgraduate Research – Call for input
The New Deal for Postgraduate Research (“the New Deal”) is a long-term piece of work that aims to improve the experience and quality of postgraduate research training in the UK.
In this engagement exercise, we are focusing primarily on doctoral training (for example, working towards a PhD), but we welcome comments on other research-focused training and qualifications.
The government’s Research & Development (R&D) Roadmap first committed to the creation of the New Deal. In July 2021 the government published its R&D People and Culture Strategy.
The strategy aims to ensure that the UK has an outstanding research culture that truly supports discovery, diversity and innovation and that values everyone’s contributions. It seeks to enable varied and diverse careers that bring excitement and recognition, allowing talent and ideas to flow freely between academia, business and other sectors.
The R&D People and Culture Strategy set out that the New Deal would:
- consider how postgraduate research students are supported and developed, practically and financially
- consider how best to prepare postgraduate research students for rewarding careers, and address factors that contribute to precarity in early career research
- enable a more diverse range of people to consider careers in research
- consider how to attract and retain talented people within the sector and support the flow of people and ideas in the R&D system across the world.
The government’s ambition is that the New Deal should apply to as many postgraduate research students as possible.
For more information click here
Participatory Research Challenge – Award Announcement
Following the additional budget allocation received from Research England to address or advance Participatory Research, The Researcher Development Team are delighted to announce that out of the nineteen applications received, nine proposals were awarded. Congratulations to all of these initiatives that will create knowledge or build capacity in this area, which will inform and improve the future endeavours of the CCCU research community.
- Christopher Burton, Maria Mitchell, Health Education England (South-East) Paula Kersten, & Lee Bolton: Co-designing an initial theoretical framework that summarises ‘sustainable healthcare practice’ to underpin new education and research.
- Mina Cullimore & Arts Education Exchange: To test and investigate ways to engage young people with complex needs and build their epistemic insight and agency through enquiry-led multidisciplinary activities.
- Maria Diemling & Thanet & District Reform Synagogue (TDRS): Reconstructing the individual lives of the Klatovy Jewish community.
- Eleni Hatzidimitriadou, Paula Kersten, Edyta McCallum & Evonne Hunt, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, & Alexandra Bode -Tunji, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust: Developing a co-produced understanding of the ‘banding culture’ acting as a barrier in workforce transformation agenda and practices.
- Alexander Kent, Peter Vujakovic, Historic Towns Trust, British Cartographic Society (BCS) & Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT): Taking an action research approach to generate innovative learning resources with local schools.
- Daniel Marsden & Learning Disability Education Group: Working with people with learning disabilities and care providers to develop capacity and co-create research topic interests.
- Janet Melville-Wiseman, Trevor Rodgers-Gray, University of Bradford, Mike Starr, University of Northumbria, Association of Care Experienced Social Care Workers, & Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee: Care experienced social care workers and students experiences of informing policy developments and practice approaches.
- Angela Pickard & Anna Ehnold-Danailov: Identifying and sharing good practice that supports dancers that are also parents, to maintain a professional contemporary dance career.
- Jacqueline Tallent, Esther Coren & Community Arts Projects (CAP): Exploratory pilot work to develop a project looking at the impact of participating in an art-based education programme for prisoners.
Research & Innovation Funding Unit vacancy
We have an exciting new opportunity to join us in Research and Innovation Funding, in the Department of Research Development.
See our R&I Manager vacancy here http://ow.ly/Isbn50I26pu full or part-time considered up to 1.2fte.
INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING AND RESEARCH CONFERENCE:Tackling the Big Challenges Together
Call for Papers – Join us in tackling the big challenges together.
To mark Canterbury Christ Church University’s Diamond Jubilee year, we have created a conference exploring the use of innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to tackle the problems the world is facing. Through a series of interactive presentations and workshops, our conference will share multi- and cross-disciplinary approaches and foster an atmosphere which enables new projects and ideas, and seeds collaborative opportunities.
We are welcoming calls for papers to from academia, students, the public and private sectors, and speakers who would like to run interactive workshop sessions. Themes will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Green heritage and sustainability
- STEAM
- Creativity
- Importance of space and place
- Interdisciplinary and research-informed approaches to education
If you would like to join us, please submit a 300 word abstract by Sunday 3 April 2022 to irn@canterbury.ac.uk. Please also specify in your submission if you would like to present virtually or in person.
Attend the conference
Save the date and come along to what promises to be an engaging conference where we will be tackling the big challenges together, on 8th and 9th June on the Canterbury Campus (venue TBC) and virtually in the week commencing 13 June. Click here for full Diamond Jubilee programme
The Research & Knowledge Exchange (RKE) Internship Programme 2022.
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2022
RKE internships provide opportunities for academic staff to work with a current CCCU student on a relevant and clearly defined project; and to move project ideas/research studies towards high quality applications for external funding.
Academic staff are now invited to apply for funding for one of TWO types of Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE) internship projects to run in 2022.
Staff can apply for a student intern to work with them on either:
- A Summer internship to take place between May and July 2022 for up to 200 hours maximum.
Or
- A Flexible internship to take place between March and July 2022 for up to 200 hours maximum.
Proposed projects should:
- Give students experience of working with staff on real research and knowledge exchange projects with high quality outcomes.
- Build the academic applicant’s capacity to carry out RKE activity in areas that are likely to result in tangible outcomes
- Help lead towards future external funding applications
Proposals are welcomed from all disciplines and research areas, and from staff at all levels of research experience, including early research career staff, who will be provided with a mentor, if their application is successful. The application process is competitive with applications assessed by a panel of staff and students against a set of scored criteria. Full details regarding the flexible duration and funding of the internships can be found in application form at https://bit.ly/3upgrtz .
A Q&A session for the internship scheme will be held online on Monday 4th of October 12-12.30. Please see Staffnet notice for details or email internships@canterbury.ac.uk.
Closing date for applications: Friday October 22nd 2021 For further information contact internships@canterbury.ac.uk
The Royal Society Funding Opportunties
University Research Fellowship is now open – The University Research Fellowship is currently open to applications for outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field. These long-term fellowships provide the opportunity and freedom to build an independent research career in the UK or Republic of Ireland and pursue cutting-edge scientific research.
The Society is pleased to announce that applications in the biomedical sciences remit will now be eligible for the scheme. For a full list of subject areas eligible for the round and future rounds of the University Research Fellowship, please see our guidance page .
Hear from some current award holders about how to apply for this scheme
Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme – The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is designed to encourage the free movement of researchers across disciplines and countries and stimulate academics studying intellectual history to consider science in their research. The scheme is currently open to applications and closes Wednesday 22 September 2021, 3pm
UKRI Funding Opportunity
Scale up health inequality prevention and intervention strategies
Apply for funding to carry out a pilot study for the Mobilising Cultural and Natural Assets to Combat Health Inequalities programme. You must be:
- a UK resident
- hosted by a research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
The study should focus on how to scale up small, local approaches for addressing health inequalities.
NIHR Funding Alert
The following new funding opportunities are available:
Community-based COVID-19 platform study for novel antivirals
Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme
An NIHR and MRC partnership
21/529 Efficacy trials in regenerative medicine
Public Health Research (PHR) Programme
21/525 Permitted Developments Rights
21/527 Development Award – Local authority-level research priorities on climate change
21/530 Application Development Award – Healthy extended working lives
For more information and a list of all current funding opportunities, please visit the NIHR website.
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