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  • Graduate School Research Poster Conference

    Practice No. 821

    Last modified: 03/05/2013 14:51:31

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    The annual Research Poster Conference provides a unique opportunity for doctoral researchers at all stages of their studies to present their research to a diverse mixed-disciplined audience. The Conference is an excellent practical forum for the development of a range of essential communication and networking skills. It is also a chance for University students and staff to foster productive interdisciplinary links and find out more about the range of exciting research that takes place at the University of Birmingham. The usual resources are required to deliver the event: a venue; catering & catering staff; additional helpers to assist on the day; and a means of producing and displaying the posters. We also provided 3 doctoral researchers with the opportunity to become part of the project team that organised the Research Poster Conference.

  • Researcher-led training - graduate training reps

    Practice No. 1285

    Last modified: 15/11/2011 13:06:30

    Institution: University of Oxford

    Graduate training Representatives

    In 2011-12, the Humanities Division will contributed funds to each Faculty wanting to employ a graduate training representative role. 

     

     

  • Staff Training and Development Programme

    Practice No. 1284

    Last modified: 27/10/2011 11:20:31

    Institution: The Royal Veterinary College

    The courses and workshops outlined in our programme are designed to meet the needs of all groups of staff within the College and offer a wide variety of development opportunities in five key areas:

     

    • Health & Safety

    • Information Technology

    • Leadership & Management

    • Skills & Knowledge

    • Wellbeing

     

    In our 2009/10 training programme, we introduced a section specific to the development of researchers, in response to principle 4 of the Concordat. This section has continued to develop following feedback received from research staff, line managers and principal investigators.

     

    Research staff may also attend any of the other Staff Training & Development courses offered in the programme.

  • Developing resources for social enterprise

    Practice No. 930

    Last modified: 25/03/2011 08:55:56

    Institution: University of the West of England

    Recently there has been growing interest in an alternate business model, social enterprise. This is a different way of doing business that trades for a social purpose whereby the social or environmental aims of the business are of equal importance to its commercial activities. Consequently the skills required for running a successful social enterprise combine those typical of enterprise activities generally with a strong motivation and passion for social improvement. We have found that this aspect is useful in engaging researchers because at the heart of social enterprise is a strong commitment to achieving a better society, a motivation that resonates with that which typically drives the research agenda and researchers themselves. This collaborative project with Vitae has been successful in developing written and associated video materials to explore enterprise skills with early career researchers. There are plans to disseminate the resources via Vitae as part of the ongoing move to produce development resources that are freely available to HEIs as part of the research skills development agenda, this is likely to be in January 2011.

  • Speed Reading Evaluation

    Practice No. 1172

    Last modified: 02/11/2010 14:01:26

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    The University ran extended evaluation, based on the Rugby Team Impact Framework, on the new Speed Reading course for the 2009-10 academic year. This was the first time such longitudinal evaluation had been attempted for Graduate School courses.

  • Postgraduate Enterprise Summer School

    Practice No. 975

    Last modified: 21/10/2010 11:57:56

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    The Postgraduate Enterprise Summer School, now in its sixth year, is a week long course that has been designed to teach skills in enterprise and entrepreneurship to postgraduate students at the University of Birmingham. Topics covered include innovation, marketing, business planning, financing, commercialisation and presentation skills. By the end of the course participants will: develop a business idea from the concept stage to a fully fledged business proposition; know the steps required to set up their own business; be aware of the requirements to commercialise research in an academic environment; be able to work effectively in a team environment; and identify which role they are best suited to in a business team. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation team of the Careers and Employability Centre plans, runs and facilitates the week with some teaching input. The majority of training is delivered by other internal staff, external trainers and entrepreneurs. The University’s Business School hosts the event providing training rooms and IT suites. Being intensive, all lunches and refreshment breaks need to be catered and one evening dinner is provided, as an opportunity to network with successful entrepreneurs from the region. In recent years, use of software (SimVenture) and the internet, brainstorming tools (Ketso) and profiling tools (e.g. Belbin, eFACETS) have significantly enriched the programme.

  • Real Creativity – a constructive approach to problem solving

    Practice No. 1087

    Last modified: 23/08/2010 09:29:02

    Institution: Loughborough University

    Real Creativity is a highly experiential, developmental creativity course which allows participants to work in real time on real problems over a two day programme. It was developed by Skyward coaching and development.

  • Warwick ePortfolios for research students

    Practice No. 134

    Last modified: 01/12/2009 11:17:19

    Institution: University of Warwick

    An ePortfolio is an external facing website owned and maintained by a research student.

  • The Talent Pool

    Practice No. 974

    Last modified: 19/11/2009 14:03:29

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    The Talent Pool provides a unique opportunity for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers at all stages of their studies to engage with external organisations and develop into the next generation of academics, business consultants and entrepreneurs. The Talent Pool offers enterprise training that creates a network of students with various skills and ambitions who are able to make time for work experience, placements, internships, consultancy contracts or the chance to set up their own business, by understanding the important skills and strategies behind business ventures. The Talent Pool can be compared with other programmes that have been used at the University in previous years, such as Medici and SPEED.

  • Individual Co-Active Coaching

    Practice No. 952

    Last modified: 17/11/2009 16:20:18

    Institution: University of Manchester

    Research Staff are offered individual coaching to work on topics of their choice, such as personal effectiveness, career management, and other challenges at work.
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