Accolade 23/24- Autumn Schedule
Autumn Schedule 23/24
Please see below the Autumn Accolade Schedule for all the events that will be held this autumn term. Information on times, locations, facilitators and learning outcomes for each session are listed below. If you'd like to receive invitations to our events, please join our network of postdocs as an Associate Fellow. Alternatively, you are welcome to contact us at ECR@warwick.ac.uk.
All the in-person sessions this term will be held in the IAS Seminar Room C0.02. A networking lunch for all fellows will be held before each event and will run from 12:00 - 13:00 in the IAS Common Room C0.06.
We look forward to seeing you at this term's events.
Using the Accolade Programme 23/24 to Support your Next Career Step
11th October 2023 | 13:00 0 14:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Sarah Penny
In this session you will be introduced to the Accolade Programme for 23/24 and the academic careers and leadership development strands that underpin it. You will be asked to reflect on and share your plans for professional development this academic year in small groups. We will explore the Action Learning Sets for 23/24 and how they will support your learning. We will explore Accolade resources and how you can use them to support your individual reflection and to generate evidence of competencies you develop throughout the year.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Find and access Accolade Programme and event information.
- Describe the value of the Accolade Programme.
- Create your own record of evidence of your own professional learning.
- Reflect on your development journey.
IAS Exchanges: AMA (Ask Me Anything)
11th October 2023 | 15:00 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Gareth J Johnson
The return of this popular and highly-interactive session, structured around YOUR questions. Hosted by Exchanges’ genial editor-in-chief, Dr Gareth J Johnson, come and learn more about the journal from a unique behind the scenes perspective. Crucially, attendees will be able to pitch their questions to Gareth too. So, if you ever wondered what goes into a special issue, how much word counts really matter, is reviewer ‘2’ always a beast or even how you could get involved as contributor: this session is for you.
To submit a question ahead of the session, please mail exchangesjournal@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window, or simply ask it on the day.
Accolade Action Learning Sets: An introduction to Peer Coaching
18th October 2023 | 13:00 - 15:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Sarah Penny IAS
In this workshop you will:
- Enhance your understanding of peer coaching; what it is and its benefits.
- Consider the differences between Mentoring and Coaching
- Gain knowledge of coaching principles and models to support your peer coaching practice in Accolade Action Learning Sets
- Reflect on the opportunities that coaching techniques present for your wider academic practice and personal development.
Understanding Fellowships + Awardees at Warwick Panel
25th October 2022 | 13:00 - 15:00
Location: FAB 0.08
With Dr Fiona Fisher, Research Strategy & Programme Manager, IAS
and panellists Dr Evelina Liarou, Dr Fabiola Creed and Dr Luca Peretti
This session will look at how externally funded research fellowships can support the development of an academic career. The session will introduce the concept of fellowships, look at who is funding them and what you can do to become a competitive applicant. In the second hour of the session, attendees will be able to hear from a panel of fellowship holders and learn from their first hand experience of securing a fellowship followed by a Q&A.
Dr Evelina Liarou,
Evelina Liarou received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Patras in 2014, working on Analytical Chemistry and Nanotechnology. In 2016, she received her M.Sc. Degree (1st Class Honours) in Polymer Chemistry from the National University of Athens. In 2020 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, working in the group of Prof. David Haddleton on controlled radical polymerization. For the impact of her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Oxygen Tolerant Copper-mediated Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization”, she was awarded the “Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine PhD Thesis Prize 2021” from the University of Warwick. In 2020 she received a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) to work on reversible polymer transformations at Ghent University, Belgium. In 2022 she received a Eutopia-SIF MSCA fellowship while since 2023 she is a Leverhulme Trust early career fellow at the Department of Chemistry – University of Warwick, with her research combining advanced electron microscopy and polymerization mechanisms.
Dr Fabiola Creed
Dr Fabiola Creed is a historian of health in twentieth-century Britain, specialising in public health, industry, mass media and stigma. She is currently a Research Fellow on Professor Marland’s Wellcome-funded project ‘The Last Taboo of Motherhood?: Postnatal Mental Disorders in Twentieth-Century Britain’ (University of Warwick, 2021-4). Previously, she completed a Medical Humanities China-UK (MHCUK) fellowship (Universities of Strathclyde, Manchester and Shanghai, 2020-1), and an IAS fellowship (2020). She has converted her Wellcome-funded PhD research on the sunbed industry into several publications. These focused on the fake tan industry (Technology and Health in the Age of Patient Consumerism, MUP), television talk shows (Gender, Subjectivity, and “Everyday Health” in the Post-1945 World, MUP) and sunbed ‘addicts’ (Social History of Medicine). Her first monograph is on The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Dr Luca Peretti
Luca Peretti is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. He wrote the book Un dio nero un diavolo bianco. Storia di un film non fatto tra Algeria, Eni, Solinas e Sartre (Marsilio, 2023) and co-edited volumes on terrorism and cinema (Postmedia books, 2014), Pier Pasolini Pasolini (Bloomsbury Academics, 2018), and on Italian cinema and Algeria (AAMOD, 2022). His work has appeared in, among others, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist: Film Issue, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Historical Materialism, Comunicazioni Sociali, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. He the editor-in-chief of Cinema e Storia. He wrote and co-produced the film Mister Wonderland (dir. Valerio Ciriaci, 2019) and collaborates with newspapers and magazines.
Learning Outcomes
- Gain a deeper understanding of what fellowships are and how they can support you in your academic career development
The majority of the session will be shaped around the dilemmas and questions you put forward, but indicative topics that may be covered include:
- The difference between a fellowship and a standard research grant
- Advice on the planning and writing of the fellowship application
- how to maximise opportunities and consolidate research during a fellowship
Accolade Action Learning Sets: Using Coaching skills to support others
1st November 2023 | 13:00 - 14:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Sarah Penny, IAS
In this workshop you will:
- Build on your understanding of coaching models and tools through reflective exercises and coaching practice.
- Be introduced to your Accolade Action Learning Set and agree on how you will work together as a group.
Autumn Research Exchange
8th November 2023 | 13:00 - 17:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With the IAS Team
You are invited to the first IAS Research ExchangeLink opens in a new window Event of the new academic term. This event series has been designed following direct input and feedback from fellows and will replace the weekly webinars. We hope you enjoy meeting and networking in person with the wider IAS community, sharing your work and building interdisciplinary research connections.
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Panel 1
Speaker 1 -
Speaker 2 -
Speaker 3 -
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:15 Panel 2
Speaker 4 -
Speaker 5 -
Speaker 6 -
16:15 – 17:00 Feedback Roundtable
Panellists and attendees are invited to share and reflect on challenges and feedback regarding presentation preparation and delivery and to explore potential interdisciplinary collaborations
Grant Writing Workshop
15th November 2022 | 13:00 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Fiona Fisher
Athena Professional Workshop: You & Your Ideal Job
22nd November 2023 | 13:00 - 15:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional and Dr Sarah Penny
Athena Professional Workshop:
29th November 2023 | 13:00 - 15:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional and Dr Sarah Penny
Research Snapshot and End of Term Social
6th December 2022 | 12:00 - 17:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02 and IAS Common Room C0.06
With the IAS Team
This event will give our Fellows the opportunity to present a snapshot of their research to the IAS community. Each fellow will have 2 minutes and one slide to communicate their work in an ‘elevator pitch’ style presentation. Each session will be followed with questions to encourage innovative conversation, networking and potential collaboration between research disciplines. The audience will have the chance to vote for their favourite talk, with the winner of the Research Snapshot Event receiving a prize which will be awarded during the end of term social.