B8 - Engaging supervisors and students in skills development: Using the RDF to underpin a remotely-delivered Professional Practice module
Day 1 at 16:15 - Since 2006 postdoctoral researchers at UWE have been required to obtain 60 credits of skills development activities during their doctorates. This has been a prompt to innovative ways of gaining credit but has also been perceived as a barrier to research progress. In response to demands from supervisors for a module that is integrated with doctoral research, the UWE Graduate School developed the ‘Research In Contemporary Context' module. This was a Professional Practice module (30 M level credits) which used research-based learning to develop competencies drawn from the Researcher Development Framework. It was delivered with remote access via Visimeet (a Janet enabled video-conferencing client) and researchers included transferable skills workshops in their assessments. Strand - All Researchers (practice).
Day | Day 1 |
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Session | B |
Start time | 16:15 |
Strand | All Researchers (practice) |
Code | B8 |
Presenters | Dr Paul Spencer - Researcher Development Manager, University of the West of England Dr Neil Willey - Director of Graduate School, University of the West of England |
This workshop:
- outlined how Professional Practice modules can help doctoral researchers and supervisors engage with skills development
- showed how the researcher development framework could be used to integrate skills development and doctoral research
- discussed the use of remote delivery of skills development activities.
Workshop outcomes:
- had an opportunity to share practice about how the RDF can be used in researcher development
- explored alternative approaches to delivering skills development activities.
Format:
Interactive workshop.