Accolade 22/23- Spring Schedule
Spring Schedule 2022/2023
Please see below the Spring Accolade Schedule for all the events that will be held this spring 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 Thursday Accolade sessions will be held in the IAS Seminar Room C0.02 with the exception of our InReach10x Seminar series.
There will be a networking lunch every Thursday in IAS Common Room C0.06 before the Accolade sessions.
We will also be running 'Accolade Plus' event which will run on Tuesdays, with majority being held online via Teams.
We look forward to seeing you at this term's events.
Accolade Workshop: Your CV and Job Application Workshop
12th January 2023 | 13:30 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With the Dr Katie Reynolds
In this workshop, we will explore the different approaches that are taken when writing a CV and cover letter for a job application. This will be an interactive workshop where you work in small groups to discuss, compare, and evaluate the different approaches and methods to compiling a job application.
By the end of the session, you will have learnt:
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- How to approach a job advert differently
- New techniques for writing a CV and cover letter
- The value of a good cover letter and CV
Accolade Workshop: Grant & Fellowship Writing Workshops
19th January 2023 | 13:30 - 15:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr John Burden, IAS
More information to be confirmed
Accolade Plus: Research Project Finance 1 - Grant Funding (Online Session)
24th January 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Location: Online Via Teams
With Dr John Burden, IAS
By the end of the session participants will understand;
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- the institutional & personal importance of generating research income
- the Full Economic Cost (FEC) model for research projects
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- how different funders pay FEC costs and the effect of this on research income
- the support available to manage a research grant & the need to comply with funder's terms and conditions
Accolade: InReach10x Seminar
26th January 2023 | 14:15 - 15:15
Location: Oculus OC1.01
Talk by James Poskett
The Global Origins of Modern Science
Where did modern science come from? Until recently, most historians agreed that the origins of modern science could be located in Europe, sometime between 1500 and 1700. In this talk, based on the latest scholarship, I present a very different account. Beginning in the fifteenth century and moving right through to the present, I make the case for the global origins of modern science, exploring the ways in which Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific fit into the story. The history of modern science, I argue, needs to be understood as part of a history of global cultural exchange. In making this argument, I uncover the forgotten contributions of scientists from around the world, whilst also making the ethical, political, and intellectual case a critical engagement with the legacies of the history in the world of science today.
To sign up for talks and find out more information please see the InReach10x page.
Accolade: InReach10x - IAS Seminar Speaker Conversations
26th January 2023 | 15:30 - 16:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With James Poskett
This session is exclusively for our IAS Fellows, and it will give you the opportunity to sit down and speak with the InReach10x speaker and ask any questions you may have.
Accolade Athena Professional Workshop: Communication and Influencing
2nd February 2023 | 13:30 -15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional
In this interactive session, we will explore the skills needed to work with others effectively, with particular emphasis on communication and influencing skills.
How can we ensure that we play our part in making positive communication possible? And how can we “manage up” without annoying or competing with others? In this interactive session, we will work through some communication challenges and consider some strategies for playing our part effectively. There is no “fairy dust” or magic formula for making working relationships a success, especially during a pandemic crisis. We can, however, learn ways to self-manage which can help, and at the very least enable us to do our best.
At the end of this session participants will have:
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- Reflected on their evidence-based approach to career development
- Discussed the importance of rapport in human relationships and identified ways to establish and build rapport with colleagues
- Explored strategies for influencing colleagues and “managing up” when appropriate
Accolade: Spring Research Exchange
9th February 2023 | 13:00 - 17:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With the IAS Team
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 -TBC
Speaker 2 -TBC
Speaker 3 -TBC
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:15 Panel 2
Speaker 4 -TBC
Speaker 5 -TBC
Speaker 6 -TBC
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.
Accolade Plus: DIY Filmmaking and Storytelling through video
14th February 2023 | 10:00 - 16:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
Delivered by GradTrain
In the day and age of video being the most highly consumed content on the web, it is a very valid platform for researchers and undergrads to communicate their messages to a variety of external audiences. As a form of marketing too, all the social media channels allow an individual to share content instantly and widely, and even though the concept has been around for years now, when it comes to academia it is still a very untapped source. It can be highly effective for use in an abstract too and supporting grant or job applications. This workshop takes participants through technical advice (what cameras/mics to use or buy, lighting, how to frame yourself and the rules of filmmaking, terminology, introduction to editing and software, advice on the length of videos), and has a strong focus on content (finding your 'So what?' and unique voice, basic marketing and sales principles and storytelling techniques). As well as advice on the best social media channel and hosting websites for your message, rules on copyright for photos, music etc, the session ends with a live demonstration of an edit so that students can see how all of the components of a video come together.
This workshop has limited spaces so you will need to sign up.
Accolade Athena Professional Workshop: Feedback and Facilitation as a Supervisor
16th February 2023 | 13:30 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional
In this session, we will consider how to do something which most people find really difficult; giving feedback. Whether feedback is positive or challenging, what are the things that make it more likely to be well-received by your students? How do you actually say what needs to be said? And how do you sustain the supervisor-supervisee relationship once feedback has been delivered?
We will also discuss when and how to be facilitative. Is it always the right approach?
At the end of this session participants will have:
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- Discussed why feedback matters
- Demonstrated use of a feedback model to:
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- Endorse positive behaviour
- Challenge behaviour
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- Considered when a facilitative approach is appropriate
- Identified what a facilitative approach looks like
Accolade Workshop: European Funding
23rd February 2023 | 13:30 - 14:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr John Burden, IAS
More information to be confirmed
Accolade Workshop: MSCA-IF Applications
23rd February 2023 | 15:00 - 16:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Kevin Purdy, Director of Education, Associate Professor (Reader in Microbial Ecology)
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain insight and advice on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship application process
- Learn what evaluators are looking for
- Consider the steps you should be taking and when to write a successful application.
Accolade Plus: Book Proposals and Panel Session (Online Session)
28th February 2023 | 14:00 - 15:30
Location: Online via Teams
Chaired by Dr Gareth J Johnson, Exchanges Editor-in-Chief, IAS.
Panellists - TBC
How do you turn your thesis into a monograph? Who are the best academic book publishers to approach? What are the costs and why is going open access more important than ever now? Plus, what are the dos and don’ts when it comes to writing your proposal and is it really worth all that effort? In this highly practical panel discussion, a number of invited speakers will share insights into the their own past publishing successes. Throughout, the session will also offer a chance for Accolade delegates to pose their own questions to the panel.
InReach10x Seminar
2nd March 2023 | 13:30 - 14:30
Location: WOODS-SCAWEN
Talk by Alice Mah
Towards an Alternative Planetary Petrochemical Politics
The global petrochemical industry is under intensifying pressure to transform, as a major polluter at the nexus of the plastics, climate, and toxic pollution crises. This talk reflects on findings from an in-depth, multi-site sociological study of the petrochemical industry, with research spanning high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted fenceline communities in the US, China, and Europe. Drawing inspiration from debates on critical environmental justice, Gramscian political economy, just transitions, and degrowth, it will explore “multiscalar activism,” an emerging form of collective resistance that makes connections between social and environmental justice issues across diverse movements, sites, and scales of political struggle. Multiscalar activism against the hegemonic power of the global oil, petrochemical, and plastics complex has the capacity to raise the public visibility of local campaigns, but it can also pose political risks of state repression and enduring toxic injustice. Will escalating resistance ever be sufficient to halt the course of damaging petrochemical proliferation? To address this question, this talk will outline some possible critical interventions towards an alternative planetary petrochemical politics.
To sign up for talks and find out more information please see the InReach10x page.
Accolade: InReach10x - IAS Seminar Speaker Conversations
2nd March 2023 | 14:45 - 15:45
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Alice Mah
This session is exclusively for our IAS Fellows, and it will give you the opportunity to sit down and speak with the InReach10x speaker and ask any questions you may have.
Accolade Workshop: Compliance and Governance
9th March 2023 | 13:30 - 14:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Katharine Gray
More information to be confirmed
Accolade: Research Snapshot and End-of-Term Social
16th March 2023 | 13:30 - 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 3 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.