AUGUST 2015 E-NEWSLETTER Learning & Development Centre FOR RESEARCH ACTIVE STAFF SUPPORT OVERVIEW Learning and Development support for all Research Active Staff at Warwick focuses on five main areas: Career Development Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Equality & Diversity Leadership Skills Please contact Sandy Sparks: Sandra.Sparks@warwick.ac.uk with any queries or to discuss your needs. Visit the website for Research Active Staff (below) for information on current support. Janet Thornton Fellowship Funding The Janet Thornton Fellowship is a postdoctoral-level fellowship aimed at getting scientists back into scientific research if they have had a career break of a minimum of 12 months. NEW THIS MONTH: Funding News: Janet Thornton Fellowship The Fellowship can be taken as a full-time, part-time or flexibly worked position. Successful candidates will receive: Support Update: a fellow’s salary research expenses training generous Sanger Institute benefits More information can be found at: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/workstudy/ career/fellowship Or contact: fellowship@sanger.ac.uk http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers Academic Technology support for the digital humanities Epigeum Online Research Integrity Provision for 2015/16 FOCUS ON: RESEARCH SUPPORT Academic Technology support for the digital humanities Epigeum Online Research Integrity Provision for 2015/16 The digital humanities team is part of Service Development, IT Services and exists to serve the Faculty of Arts from their location in the Humanities building and website http://warwick.ac.uk/digitalhumanities with support relevant to the research needs of the scholarly community. Our focus is on: On the recommendation of the Research Governance and Ethics Committee, the University of Warwick has procured an online package to support training in the area of research integrity. The new requirement for universities to be compliant with the Concordat to Support Research Integrity as a condition of the HEFCE grant means that the University has to demonstrate that staff and students undertaking research are committed to the highest standards of rigour and integrity. The Epigeum Research Integrity (RI) online training package provides a training program that has five different discipline versions and is relevant to both new, mid-career and established researchers. This training package will be available to all staff and students with a Warwick login and this will be made aware to all staff with the invitation to participate. acting on the interface between researchers and IT Services to ensure the right technology is matched for research projects, and that provision of services develops to meet the changing digital practices in scholarship. Providing advice and guidance on integrating appropriate technology into proposals for funding new research, inputting into the accompanying technical plans to ensure they are rigorous with realistic and sustainable technical components. Connecting researchers with suitable technical providers, and setting these arrangements up for success. Equipping academics themselves with relevant skills and tools to leverage technology in their research. http://100days.eu is an example of a recent project that made use of our services to develop an online exhibition on Napoleon's Last Stand. The digital humanities team offered advice on a suitable technology platform that would support the desired functionality that would enable them to author the content in a web accessible way, and sourced the project developers to undertake the setup to the team's budget. If you would like to find out more, or check if your project (at whatever stage it is currently at) could benefit from our services, please get in touch via: http://warwick.ac.uk/ digitalhumanities The Research Governance and Ethics Committee’s recommendation is that the undertaking of the online Epigeum RI course should be a requirement for all staff or students undertaking research, those supervising students undertaking research, committee members on research and ethics committees and administrative and support staff supporting research/research projects. Further information will follow during September. Details of the Concordat to Support Research Integrity can be found at: http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/ highereducation/Pages/ Theconcordattosupportresearchintegrity.aspx#.Va54UflVhHy Researcher Development at Warwick: Good Practice Sharing Sandy Sparks will be speaking at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference in September 2015. The 90-minute conference presentation will focus on: ‘Unconscious Bias Training and a Case Study on Warwick’s Unconscious Bias Provision’. Sandy will also be presenting a special interest session on the adaptation of the Vitae Leadership in Action course that was run at Warwick this year. This is an opportunity to showcase Warwick’s learning and development provisions and share practice with other HE institutions. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/ 2