Welcome Back Event

IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building

With the IAS Team

We are marking the start of term by holding a Networking Lunch, Welcome Back Meeting and Photography Session at the IAS. These events will be hosted in-person, but attendees will have the option to connect to the Meeting online via Teams if preferred. This will be your opportunity to hear from the IAS Team about recent news and updates, including how our programmes and schemes will run this term.

Supporting your Next Career Step with the Accolade Summer Programme 21/22

Online Via Teams

With Dr Sarah Penny, Early Career Programme Manager, IAS

In this session you will be introduced to the Accolade Summer Programme for 21/22 and the academic careers and leadership development strands that the programme focuses on this term. You will be asked to reflect on and share your plans for professional development this academic term in small groups. 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 your fellowship.

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

Exchanges Journal AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Online via Teams

With Dr Gareth J Johnson, IAS

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!

Accolade and EUTOPIA-SIF Event: Developing Your Publication Strategy

Online via Zoom

Chaired by Dr Gareth J Johnson, IAS

Publishing: There are thousands of opinions in the academy about what works, what doesn’t and how you can approach it in a coherent and more successful manner. Developing your own publication strategy alongside the preparation of your publication outputs is a key yet easily overlooked aspect of the publishing process. We will be joined by a panel of scholars who will share their insights about this diverse, often frustrating, but ultimately crucial area of academic life. By exploring their diverse experiences and perspectives on creating and supporting others in the production of publication outputs, we intend to support your publication decision-making and planning. This event will be shaped around your interests and questions. You are invited to share any questions with the panel chair in advance via this FORM. Please add your questions by the 3^rd May 2022. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions during the session too.

Learning Outcomes:

· To consider different questions and approaches to the development of a publication strategy.

· To reflect on the best publication options for your research, and for you as a researcher.

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 number of publications vs. the quality of your publication history

· How to decide upon the correct channel/s to reach your intended audience

· Advice on coping with publication timescales

Accolade Working Group Introductions - Meeting 1

Online via Teams

With IAS Fellows

This is an opportunity to consolidate your learning within the Accolade programme in smaller groups; to connect with and support one another and collaborate through the exchange of knowledge, resources and experiences.

Each week, fellows, colleagues and external consultants who facilitate Accolade training will offer exercises and questions that you can work on in your groups. See WG Exercises Folder in the Files tab of the Accolade channel.

Where possible, we are offering Working Groups space, lunch and refreshments in the IAS so they can meet in person. See invitation for more details and email ECR@warwick.ac.uk to book.

Accolade Workshop: Using Accolade to Make a Stand Out Job Application

IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building

With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional

This will be a practical session in which you will work, with others in small groups, to identify ways to distinguish your application for a job. We will focus on articulating evidence of a broad range of skills necessary for professional academic practice. Clearly if you are applying for jobs now, this session is for you. Also, those of you who are new to the programme will learn how to make the most of the opportunities for generating evidence of capability you will have over the coming months.

Accolade Workshop: What Does Your Employer Really Want to Hear at Interview

IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building

With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional, Professor Daniel Branch, Academic Director of Doctoral College & Co-Academic Director, Africa in International Relations & Strategy Group, and Professor Miriam Gifford, Head of the School of Life Sciences.

We will be joined by a panel of academics who will share what is expected of candidates and offer some top tips about what is likely to sound convincing at interview, and what is not. This session provide insight of value to all fellows, no matter how long they a have been on the programme. It's always helpful to know a what you're aiming for!

Accolade Working Groups - Meeting 2

Hybrid

With IAS Fellows

This is an opportunity to consolidate your learning within the Accolade programme in smaller groups; to connect with and support one another and collaborate through the exchange of knowledge, resources and experiences.

Each week, fellows, colleagues and external consultants who facilitate Accolade training will offer exercises and questions that you can work on in your groups. See WG Exercises Folder in the Files tab of the Accolade channel.

Where possible, we are offering Working Groups space, lunch and refreshments in the IAS so they can meet in person. See invitation for more details and email ECR@warwick.ac.uk to book.

Accolade Workshop: Introduction to Impact

IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building

With Research Impact Services; Grace Prewett (Research Impact Manager – Science) & Emma Roberts (Research Impact Manager – Arts)

This event will give participants an understanding of what impact is and how it fits into the current research context. It will include practical advice on planning how you can create impact from your work and what support is available.

Learning Outcomes:

Following this session, participants will understand:

• What impact is and why it is important
• How to identify the impact potential of your own research
• What methods are available for creating impact from your research
• How to measure and evaluate your impact
• What support is available

IAS Research Exchange

IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building

With IAS Community

You are invited to the first of our monthly IAS Research Exchange Events! 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

Helen Smith (Warwick Medical School )

Simon Myers (Dept. of Psychology)

Ian Farnell (Dept. of Theatre and Performance Studies)

14:30-14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 – 16:15 Panel 2

Derek Ma (School of Engineering)

Shayan Shaikh (Dept. of Psychology)

Yesim Kakalic (Dept. of Applied Linguistics)

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 Online Roundtable: Career Paths Beyond Academia

Online via Teams

Chaired by Dr Sarah Penny & Dr John Burden, IAS

We will be joined by a panel of Warwick Staff and IAS Alumni who will share their career journeys and experiences involving roles outside of academia. During this session we will be considering the potential opportunities and challenges that applying for non-academic roles both inside and outside of HEIs can offer.

With Panellists:

Dr Tabitha Baker, Head of Research Facilitation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Tabitha is currently Head of Research Facilitation at the Oxford Internet Institute where she oversees departmental research activity, leads on the implementation of the research strategy, and advises researchers on funding applications. Prior to this, she was Senior Research Officer at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. She has held various roles in University administration over the past 10 years, including at the University of Warwick. Tabitha completed her PhD in History at the University of Warwick in 2019 and was an IAS Early Career Fellow during that same year.

Dr Sophie Hardy, Research and Development Officer, Food Standards Agency

Sophie currently works for the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the Science Evidence and Research Division, where she is part of the team responsible for science governance and coordinating the FSA's research strategy. Her work involves liaising with research councils, universities and the private sector to ensure delivery of research projects, as well as managing the FSA's portfolio of fellowships and studentships. Previously, Sophie worked in academia investigating behavioural and neurobiological changes in language processing across the lifespan - she completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2019, followed by a 2-year postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick, where she was also an IAS Associate Fellow.

Dr Alex McCormack, Innovation Technical Lead, Crop Health and Protection

Alex joins CHAP's head office in York to build its network of academic and research partners, support research projects, horizon scan for new technologies, and to be a key contact for scientific/technical enquiries. With a background in Agriculture, spanning work on farms, in industry, and in crop protection R&D roles, he understands the problems that face the sector and potential solutions. This experience is underpinned by his BSc (Hons.) in Crop Management and PhD from Harper Adams University. He has also worked at the University of Warwick on Innovate UK and AHDB sponsored projects examining novel disease management in vegetable crops, during which time he was an Associate Fellow of the IAS. Alex is fuelled by his passion for translating research from the laboratory to the field and looks forward to driving innovation with CHAP partners to feed the future.

Dr Anjali Thomas, Evaluation Researcher, University of Liverpool

Anjali is an Evaluation Researcher at the University of Liverpool and was an early career researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick. She is interested in research on youth, gender, higher education and social inequalities. Anjali’s research experiences involve young people, educational choices, gender and student experiences in India. Her professional research experiences have led to expertise in families, youth, higher education, gender and global intersectional inequalities. Her doctoral thesis at University of Warwick explored how families are involved in the gendered educational trajectories in India.

Michele Underwood, Researcher Development Manager, University of Warwick

Starting my career in Outdoor Education I worked to enable individuals to thrive and push themselves; accept their strengths and weaknesses; meet challenges and help others do the same; gain knowledge, understanding and empathy. I have continued this approach with my work as a Researcher Developer

Underpinning my work is working with individuals as collaborative partners in their learning process My approach to design and delivery of their learning programme allows for them to learn when they need to; understands that they are self-directed and internally motivated; that they bring prior experience and knowledge; and their learning must be relevant and collaborative. It is essential that they learn from experience, and that the process incorporates the basis for observation and reflection. In my current role I offer training to 3000 PhD researchers and support their Supervisors.

My study and practise as a coach and counsellor allow me to create challenge and a supportive environment in which people are actively engaged in their development. My goal, therefore, is to facilitate that conversation; challenging and supporting participants, and enabling them to think courageously and creatively. As an active researcher, I am able to utilise my current practise to inform my delivery of support and development to researchers whatever their stage of career. Experiencing the same challenges of researching, writing and publishing and managing a research team allows me to draw upon current practise and learning to inform.

Accolade Online Roundtable: Developing a Monograph Proposal

Online via Teams

Chaired by Dr Gareth J Johnson, IAS

Learning Outcomes:

TBC

Accolade and EUTOPIA-SIF Event: ERC Grant Webinar and Awardee Panel

Online via Zoom

Chaired by Dr John Burden, IAS

With Panellists: Anna Dragos, University of Ljubljana, Konstantina Kilteni, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Maria Koinova, University of Warwick, Wim de Malshe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Christophe Snoeck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, University of Warwick, Martin Virte, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a deeper understanding of ERC Grants
• Begin to identify where you may want to incorporate an ERC grant into your longer term career/research plans.
• Gain insight from award holders on the application and interview process
• Consider different approaches to managing a grant and the team.

 

The majority of the session will be shaped around the dilemmas and questions you put forward, but indicative topics that may be covered also include:

• Advice on the planning and writing of an ERC grant
• how to maximise opportunities and consolidate research impact during and after an ERC grant.

Accolade Working Groups - Meeting 3

Hybrid

With IAS Fellows

This is an opportunity to consolidate your learning within the Accolade programme in smaller groups; to connect with and support one another and collaborate through the exchange of knowledge, resources and experiences.

Each week, fellows, colleagues and external consultants who facilitate Accolade training will offer exercises and questions that you can work on in your groups. See WG Exercises Folder in the Files tab of the Accolade channel.

Where possible, we are offering Working Groups space, lunch and refreshments in the IAS so they can meet in person. See invitation for more details and email ECR@warwick.ac.uk to book.

Accolade Workshop: Reflecting on and Developing your Teaching and Research

Hybrid; Teams and IAS Seminar Room

Facilitated by Early Career Teaching Fellows, Josh Patel & Théo Aiolfi.

Josh and Theo are Early Career Teaching Fellows at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) and the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS). Josh’s doctoral research explored how changes in British higher education policy and pedagogy were informed by the wider context of post-war liberalism. Theo’s research developed an interdisciplinary definition of populism as a political style as an open-ended repertoire of political performances that articulate various conception of ‘the people’.

In this session, we will lead discussion and reflection on how we as a group approach our teaching (including leading seminars, demonstrating, lecturing, and other forms of facilitating learning). The aim will be to have a conversation about some strengths and weaknesses of our approaches, think about collectively how we might learn from each other’s experiences, and the opportunities or challenges of interdsiciplainary teaching that we don't know. Drawing from each other's experience we hope we can create together some useful hints and tips and all come away with a sense of our strengths as teachers!

In this session you will:

• Share experience of teaching
• Conduct a short statement of your teaching philosophy
• Think about how to reflect on teaching

IAS Research Exchange

IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building

With IAS Community

You are invited to the second IAS Research Exchange Event! 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

Anastasia Stavridou (Applied Linguistics)

Zofia Bednarowska-Michaiel (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies)

Yihan Guo (Warwick Manufacturing Group)

14:30-14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 – 16:15 Panel 2

Ed Devane (Centre for the History of Medicine)

Valentin Waschulin (School of Life Sciences)

Juliana Holanda (Centre of Cultural and Media Policy Studies)

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.

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