MARCH 2014
E-NEWSLETTER
SUPPORT
OVERVIEW
From April 2013 our remit
continues to include
learning and development
support for all Research
Active Staff at Warwick.
To focus effectively on staff
development opportunities for
Research Active Staff the five
main areas of support will be:
 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.
Learning & Development
FOR RESEARCH
ACTIVE STAFF
Invitation to join the Statistics Series
Advisory Group Meeting
Friday 9 May 2014, 11.00am—1.00pm
Room 2, Wolfson Research Exchange, Library.
The Statistics Seminars have run as a collaboration
between LDC and RISCU over the past 18 months and
developed into a successful series of events and online
resources to support understanding and statistical
analysis skills in Warwick’s research community.
We hope to develop the seminar series in the coming
academic year and explore the range of support offered.
The Advisory Group meeting is open to anyone
who has an interest or expertise in improving
the understanding of statistics in research
methodology across disciplines. We welcome
the involvement of senior academics and all
levels of research staff to provide a range of
perspectives.
If you would like further information, or to book a place
at the meeting, please email L.Lavender@warwick.ac.uk
Further details on the Series can be found at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/
opportunities/development_support/mathstats/
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers
NEW THIS
MONTH:
Event News:
 Workshop dates
for the Spring &
Summer Terms
 New Research Staff
Network events
Support Update:
 Focus On: Vitae
 Events and
Funding in Science
FOCUS ON: VITAE AT WARWICK & ACROSS THE REGION
Vitae aims to support and
develop the careers and
skills of postgraduate and
research staff. It is a
national organisation
supported by Research
Councils UK (RCUK) and managed by CRAC: the
Career Development Organisation.
Regional Support Organisations
What Vitae Has to Offer:
 Disseminating policies, events and resources throughout
the region.
 Events
 Regional Support Organisations
 Online Resources/ publications
Events
Courses and events are run across the
country to support both individual
researchers and ‘train the trainer’ events
for those with a researcher development
remit in their HEI’s.
For example, a ‘Train the Trainer’ and
regional pilot event: ‘Establishing
Yourself—Productivity and People’
was held at Warwick on 28 February, with
participants from 8 Midlands universities.
The Midlands Hub is hosted at the University of Warwick,
within the Learning & Development Centre at University
House and supports 21 institutions.
The Hub organises and supports an extensive range of
activities, including:
 Establishing a network of regional contacts to share ideas
and resources
The key networks are the Midlands Researcher Developer
Forum and the Midlands Research Staff Association.
The aim of the Midlands Research Staff Association is
to build a community of researchers across institutions and
actively engage in personal and professional
development.
Membership is free, simply contact:
midlandshub@vitae.ac.uk
From March to October 2014 Lisa Lavender
will be taking on the role of Vitae Midlands
Hub Manager (60%) in addition to her role
supporting Research Active Staff
at Warwick (40%). The Hub Manager
works with staff developers across
institutions and supports departments
and research groups.
If you would like any further
information please contact Lisa :
L.Lavender@warwick.ac.uk
An upcoming event to note is ‘
The Enterprising Researcher—
innovating in your career’.
The event aims to encourage researchers
to think about enterprise in a broad sense
and to apply enterprising behaviours to career development.
The day will focus on :
 Being enterprising as a fundamental aspect of being a
researcher
 Being enterprising in your career—from getting work to
business ideas
 Tools to help you manage your career
To book a free place on :
Monday 10 March (at the University of Leeds) visit:
http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/eep/university-of-leeds/
Friday 14 March (at the University of Huddersfield) visit:
http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/eep/huddersfielduniversity/
Online Resources & Publications
Vitae holds an extensive database of practice and resources in
addition to training and development materials.
The Researcher Development Framework is a major new
approach in the field, with a focus on the knowledge,
behaviours and attributes that are needed by researchers.
For more details visit:
http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/428241/ResearcherDevelopment-Framework.html
Regional Vitae updates from the Midlands are
posted in a monthly blog and from April this
newsletter will include a link to the latest posting.
To view the blog visit:
http://vitaemidhub.wordpress.com/
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/
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FUNDING AND EVENTS IN SCIENCE
Women in Science and the Media
Communication and Personal Impact
Training for Early Career Female Scientists
30 July—1 August 2014
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
and BBC Broadcasting House
This innovative course uses science media to help
postdoctoral academics improve their ability to
communicate with different audiences, from other
researchers and grant reviewers to journalists and
members of the public. It focuses on the barriers facing
female scientists in their careers and how developing
effective presentation skills and personal impact can help.
Funding to cover course delivery costs for ten
University of Warwick researchers are available on
application via the registration page.
LDC EVENTS
** A number of new events
have been added for the
summer term**
Please note that most of these
events will not be repeated so
book now: a new programme of
development events is being
devised for 2014/15.
Please select the course title from the list
below to link to the booking site (if viewing
the newsletter online) or visit the
Programme of Events for Research Active
Staff for details on all these events: http://
www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/
researchers/events_news/ras_events/
For more information please visit: http://bit.ly/womenscis
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Applications are open for the 2014
L’Oréal-UNESCO UK & Ireland
Women in Science Fellowships
13 March 2014
Statistics Seminar: Presenting Data
20 & 21 March 2014 / 26 & 27 June 2014
Academic Writing Away Days
This dedicated UK & Ireland fellowship programme for
women scientists at post-doctoral level is designed to enable and/or
facilitate promising scientific research in the life and physical sciences.
1 May 2014
Career Development: Writing a
Short CV
Four fellowships will be awarded in 2014 (each worth
£15,000) and are tenable at any UK or Irish university or research
institute to support a 12-month period of research: for example buying
equipment, paying for childcare or funding conference attendance.
6 May 2014
Publishing World Changing Research
Applications opened on 1 February
and will close on 14 March 2014.
8 May 2014
Career Development: Practise
Interviews
Visit: www.womeninscience.co.uk to apply
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In addition, the British Science Association has a
Media Fellowship scheme, which offers development
opportunities by placing researchers in media
organisations such as the BBC, the Guardian and The Times.
The application deadline is 16 March 2014.
For more information visit: http://www.britishscience
association.org/science-society/media-fellowships
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/
14 May 2014
Academic Writing: Training Yourself
to be a Prolific Writer
4 June 2014
Academic Writing: Dissemination
for Impact
5 June 2014
Career Development: Preparing CVs
for non-research/non-academic jobs
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EVENTS AT WARWICK AND NETWORK NEWS
Demystifying the Promotion Process
13 March 2014, 12-3pm
This event will provide presentations from ‘experts’ on the
promotion process plus Q&A sessions and lunch.
The seminar will take place in the MOAC Seminar Room (top
floor of Senate House), for more details see:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/
promotion_process_2014
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Social Science and Discourse Analysis
Research Network
The most recent network funding will support a two-day conference on
20-21 March, Room A1.11, Social Sciences Building.
Discourse Studies in the Social Sciences: Towards a Dialogue
Between Theory and Analysis.
Research Active Staff Networks
Applications are now CLOSED
All Funding is now allocated.
Research Staff Networks continue to develop active
and innovative programmes of events.
So far this year, LDC funding has been granted
to sixteen networks and a showcase event,
meaning that all the £13,000 made available
for the current year has been allocated.
We look forward to advertising, supporting
and reporting on the continuing activities of
all the networks currently funded.
If you would like to discuss network activities
please contact Sandy Sparks:
Sandy.Sparks@warwick.ac.uk
For further information about the networks please
visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/
researchers/community/networks/
WMS Book & Journal Club
An event designed to bring together discourse theorists and discourse
analysts from within and outside Warwick. Confirmed external speakers
include Jonathan Potter and Yannis Stavrakakis, with presenters from
Law, Sociology, WBS and CAL at Warwick. All presentations will be
plenary format with plenty of opportunity for discussion.
To register a place visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/
groups/pad/discoursestudiesinsocialsciences/
For the March to May meetings, the club will be
reading Glick, H., Doshi, J., Sonnad, S. & Polsky, D.
Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials. Oxford
University Press (2007).
Please visit http://www.warwick.ac.uk/wmsbookclub
for more details.
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Microtubules: Experimental
Theoretical Perspectives
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Wednesday 7 May, 9.15am-5.00pm
Health Economics Journal Club
The next meeting of the Journal Club will take place
on Wednesday 26 March at 11.00am
Room A042 in the Medical School.
Peter Auguste will discuss the paper “Overall and income
specific effect on prevalence of the overweight and obesity of
20% sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK: econometric and
comparative risk assessment modelling study” by Briggs et al,
2013.
For more information about this and upcoming presentations,
please contact Melina Dritsaki: M.S.Dritsaki@warwick.ac.uk
Room GLTI, Medical School
Investigating microtubules is a complex problem with
the potential for inter-disciplinary approaches. We
hope to welcome colleagues from the Medical School,
Life Sciences, Maths, Systems Biology, Physics,
Chemistry, Engineering and MOAC (Molecular
Organisation and Assembly in Cells).
For further information and to register for the event
visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/
current/grf/meadows/microtubulesworkshop/
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/
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