Monthly update of learning & development
offers available to research staff
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August 2010
Opportunities from the Learning & Development Centre
Learning & Development Centre opportunities for training and
development are for contracted Warwick staff.
Information on training and development opportunities for students
can be found on the Student Careers and Skills website at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/skills
the LDC Researcher programme is currently being developed for
academic year 2010/2011
Please also see the LDC general programme
Other learning & development offers that may be valuable to
Research staff are on the general programme
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/calendar/
Funding opportunity for researchers:
For further information about individual or departmental funding
opportunities, please see www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/
funding/researchers/
Please send your Roberts’ funding applications to Sharon Neal,
Learning & Development Manager: S.F.Neal@warwick.ac.uk
Sharon will be covering this work over the summer.
Roberts’ funding – individual applications approved:
• Dr Lijiang Song - £ 597 – Directing Biosynthesis: discovery, evolution & function, Durham University 15 – 17 Sep 2010
• Dr James Barnett - £ 745 towards SGM conference on Metals & Microbes, Society of General Microbiology, 6 – 9 Sep 2010
• Dr Judith Brown - £ 750 towards FOSS4G 2010 Conference on Geospatial Free and Open Source Software, Barcelona,
6 – 9 Sep 2010
• Matthew Neufield - £750 towards Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Canada, 14 – 17 Oct 2010
• Dr Tony Evans - £ 688 toward the on-line course on “Research Synthesis for Policy & Practice” 6 – 9 Dec 2010
• Dr Shahbaz Ahmed - £745 – Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructors’ Course
Feedback on Roberts’ funded events that have taken place
during July:
Elaine Leong, History of Medicine
Public Lectures by Professor Bruce Moran (University of
Nevada), 1 – 2 July 2010
“On 2 July 2010, Professor Bruce Moran of the University of
Nevada, Reno, delivered his keynote lecture ‘Sky Islands, Cultural
Practices, and the Reputation of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe’
as part of the ‘The Making of Early Modern Scientific Knowledge:
Objects, Spaces, Practices and Epistemologies’ workshop which I
organized with Claudia Stein and Marie Thébaud-Sorger. Roberts
Funding from the Learning and Development Centre enabled me
to bring Professor Moran to the University of Warwick as the
keynote speaker and as a participant in our workshop. Through
organizing this keynote lecture and workshop, I have furthered my
organizational skills in planning and running academic conferences,
gained experience in writing grant applications and established
working relationships with scholars from France, Italy, Germany
and the United States.”
Silvester Czanner, Chemistry
Interface 2010: Humanities & Technology Conference, 15 – 16
July 2010
On 15th and 16th July the International Digital Laboratory at
University of Warwick hosted the second International Symposium
for Humanities and Technology called: InterFace 2010.
InterFace: Humanities and Technologies is a non-profit effort
to provide a forum through which researchers can learn about
the latest developments in both Technology and the Humanities
in order to create groundbreaking new collaboration. A new
generation of academics and practitioners working in such
fields as Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Humanities and
Web Science has arisen to tackle these issues. The pioneering
nature of their agendas has resulted in work that could be better
integrated into the mainstream of both sectors.
We received a good amount of extended abstracts and selected
twenty four for oral presentations. More than 30 attendees
could see presentations on the following fields: Technologies:
Agent Based Modelling, Computer Graphics & Visualization,
Internet Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Online
Collaboration, Pervasive Technologies, Sensor Networks, Semantic
Web, Web Science. Humanities: Applied Sociodynamics & Social
Network Analysis, Archaeological Reconstruction, Dynamic
Logics, Electronic Corpora, History & Art History, Information
Ethics, Linguistics, New Media, Spatial Cognition, Text Editing and
Analysis, Teaching Methodologies
The symposium highlights were the keynote and invited talks
given by experts from both fields. We had 8 invited speakers
from Comenius University in Slovakia, University of Southampton,
Coventry University, University of Warwick, Warwick Ventures,
EPSRC and Autodesk Ltd.
Based on feedback from the organisers and conference
attendees, we believe they enjoyed all the presentations and
left the digital lab with new ideas which will help to improve the
research and educational program in all areas of technologies and
humanities.
Programme Chairs:
Silvester Czanner, (s.czanner@warwick.ac.uk)
Jassim Happa (j.happa@warwick.ac.uk)
http://www.interface2010.org.uk/
Future sessions that are Roberts’ funded include:
Young Investigator’s Summer School
6 - 8 Sep 2010
Organised by G. Costantini & V. Stavros, Chemisty
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/
programmes/2009-10/vacationschools/
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Opportunities from the Learning & Development Centre - cont’d
Developing your confidence and skills as a researcher/
research team leader
Trudy Hillier – Learning and Development Adviser - has changed
roles to specifically look at developing training initiatives for
research staff in relation to Leadership and Management
Development and Personal Effectiveness.
Trudy can offer one to one coaching and group workshops on
topics such as leading a team, team-working, communicating
effectively, managing working relationships and time
management. Workshops will be available on the researcher
programme but can also be tailored to meet local needs and
offered in a department.
Please contact Trudy on:
t.j.hillier@warwick.ac.uk Ext. 24670
with ideas and suggestions or for information.
Focus on:
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS)
The Warwick Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) is dedicated to
enriching the University’s research environment. The main goals
of the IAS are:
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to enhance opportunities for international engagement with Warwick;
to emphasise links with the University’s strategic partners;
to promote research and interdisciplinary collaborations across all Warwick faculties;
to enrich the research environment for postgraduate students and early career scholars;
to develop the University’s impact agenda; and,
to increase public engagement with Warwick research nationally and internationally.
The IAS supports a cluster of funding initiatives which are
directed towards achieving these goals and any permanent
member of academic staff is eligible to apply for funding. We
are based on the first floor of Millburn House and have excellent
facilities that can be used to host small workshops. If you’d like
to visit, please email the IAS Administrator, Laura Meadows:
l.a.meadows@warwick.ac.uk
For further details of the schemes currently on offer, visit:
www.go.warwick.ac.uk/ias
New Internal Funding pages, maintained by IAS, IO and RSS –
www.go.warwick.ac.uk/internalfunding
Further opportunities within Warwick
Windows on Research – WoR
Sessions will commence again in Term 1
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/development/wor
IT Services Training Courses for Research Staff
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/
training/course_cat/teaching_research
Full list of courses http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/
servicessupport/training/
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Opportunities outside Warwick
• Vitae - Information for Research staff, see http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1269/Research-staff.html
Vitae courses that may be useful to Research Staff are:
- Business Skills and the Low Carbon Economy - University of East Anglia, 7th – 9th September 2010
Want to learn more about the Low Carbon Economy and Business Skills and the threats and opportunities for business posed by the Low Carbon Economy then our programme is for you. Designed for both early career researchers (PGRs and Research Staff)? Our 3 day residential bespoke programme ‘Business Skills and the Low Carbon Economy’ offers you the chance to build on your career portfolio.
This pilot programme, which is funded under the Vitae Innovate Scheme, is FREE to researchers (PGR or Research Staff) at any UK university but participants will need to fund their own travel costs. Accommodation at the University will be provided at no cost to participants and all meals are included.
To apply for a place on the programme or find out more, please contact Ms Sarah Payne (s.payne@uea.ac.uk).
Please put ‘Business Skills and the Low Carbon Economy’ in the subject line of your email.
- Women in SET - 22 September, Loughborough University
www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/916-231251/Women-in-SET-Loughborough-University-.html
- Project Management in the Real World for Research Staff – 15 November
http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/916-205141/Project-Management-in-the-Real-World--for-Research-Staff.html
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Useful information and links
• University’s Redeployment Guidelines
‘The University’s Redeployment Guidelines were launched on 28th April 2010 and represent the legal obligations of the University
where employees are at risk of redundancy. The University is committed to avoiding compulsory redundancies where possible and
redeployment is one possible measure to help meet this commitment. Redeployment can be defined as the transfer of a member
of staff from one job to another, either within the same Department or elsewhere in the University. Further information about
redeployment and the University’s guidelines can be viewed at the Human Resources website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/
humanresources/newpolicies/redeployment. The Fixed Term Contract Guidelines have been amended accordingly to reflect the
Redeployment Guidelines and these can be viewed at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/newpolicies/ftcs.
Guidance on the right to request time off for training echoing the new statutory right have also been published and can be viewed at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/newpolicies/right_to_request_time_off_for_training.doc.’
• Arrange-a-meeting
IT Services have an easy-to-use and versatile tool for arranging a meeting between colleagues (even those without a Warwick email
address). It is a simple solution to replace the inevitable ping-pong involved in searching for that elusive slot, convenient to all. Use
arrange-a-meeting http://mtg.warwick.ac.uk/.
• Away from Campus over the summer?
If you are going to be away from the campus over the summer, you can still get access to various applications, your files, email and
even attend meetings!
IT Services provides free access to Webex as its fully-supported desktop conferencing solution. Webex allows meetings to take place
from a desktop or laptop computer using a microphone and/or webcam, and it also has a number of other features that support a
wide range of interactions. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/collab/conferencing/webex
IT Services recently improved the way you access your network drives when off-campus and, in the months since the service was
updated, it has been used by 2496 different customers from 246 cities in 42 countries. If you haven’t tried the enhanced service yet,
you can access it at https://myfiles.warwick.ac.uk
A desktop integration tool is available for Windows or Mac, which makes your Files.Warwick space show up as a drive letter in Windows
Explorer, or a drive in the Mac Finder. For further information and to download, please visit http://go.warwick.ac.uk/its-web-files/
faqs/sftp
My.warwick gives you convenient access to information and resources such as Module Registration, Timetabling and Student Records
https://my.warwick.ac.uk/osis/home.htm
Your Exchange Email can be viewed through the use of Outlook Web Access (OWA) at https://mywebmail.warwick.ac.uk
Contacts:
Sandy Sparks, Learning and Development Advisor, sandy.sparks@warwick.ac.uk x74121
Sharon Neal, Learning and Development Manager, s.f.neal@warwick.ac.uk x24766
Val Bentick, Researcher Programme Administrator, v.bentick@warwick.ac.uk x24698
Trudie Hillier, T.J.Hillier@warwick.ac.uk x24670
Asaf Federman, A.Federman@warwick.ac.uk x23614
Learning &
Development
Centre