Accolade 22/23- Summer Schedule
Summer Schedule 2022/2023
Please see below the Spring Accolade Schedule for all the events that will be held this summer 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.
Upcoming Accolade Event this Term
Accolade Workshop: 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' Workshop
Accolade Athena Professional Workshop: Feedback and Facilitation as a Supervisor
Accolade: Job Interview Skills Practice Workshop
All Thursday Accolade sessions will be held in the IAS Seminar Room C0.02 with the exception of our InReach10x Seminar series. We aim to make as many of our sessions hybrid as possible, so if you require an online stream please let us know. There will be a networking lunch every Thursday in IAS Common Room C0.06 before the Accolade sessions.
We will also be running some 'Accolade Plus' events which will run on Tuesdays.
We look forward to seeing you at this term's events.
Accolade Welcome: ECF 22/23 Cohort 2 Welcome, Induction and Social Event
25th April 2023 | 13:30 - 17:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With the IAS Team
We warmly invite all new ECF Fellows to join us for a Welcome, Induction and Social Event at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS). We are marking the start of the term by holding a Networking Lunch, Induction and holding social at the IAS so our new ECF cohort can meet our current IAS fellows. This event will be your opportunity to hear from the IAS Team about how our programmes and schemes will run in the academic year 22/23 and for you to ask us any questions you may have.
Accolade Workshop: European Funding
27th April 2023 | 13:30 - 14:15
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Fiona Fisher
More information to be confirmed
Accolade Workshop: MSCA-IF Applications
27th April 2023 | 14:30 - 16:00
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Kevin Purdy, Director of Education, Associate Professor (Reader in Microbial Ecology), Marie Curie Awardee Dr Claire French (University of Birmingham), Marie Curie Awardee Dr Marco Cinelli (Leiden University) and Marie Curie Awardee Dr Sabrina Twilhaar (University of Warwick)
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: Summer Research Exchange 1
4th May 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. 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 Session 1
Speaker 1 - Alejandro Veiga-Exposito
Speaker 2 - Mohamed El-Shewy
Speaker 3 -Tom Kelly
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:15 Session 2
Speaker 4 - Sky Herrington
Speaker 5 - Harry Pitt-Scott
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.
InReach10x Seminar
11th May 2023 | 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Oculus OC1.01
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
11th May 2023 | 15:15 - 16:00
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 Athena Professional Workshop: Using Accolade to Make a Stand Out Job Application
18th May 2023 | 13:30 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
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 the capability you will have over the coming months.
Accolade Athena Professional Workshop: What Does Your Employer Really Want to Hear at Interview
25th May 2023 | 13:30 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional
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: Summer Research Exchange 2
1st June 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. 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 Session 1
Speaker 1 -TBC
Speaker 2 -TBC
Speaker 3 -TBC
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:15 Session 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 Workshop: 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' Workshop
8th June 2023 | from 13.30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Dr Nese Ceren Tosun, Uniqorn Academy
Career change clarity & management workshop - More information to be confirmed
Accolade Athena Professional Workshop: Feedback and Facilitation as a Supervisor
15th June 2023 | 13:30 - 15:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With Nicola Jones, Athena Professional, Dr Emily Henderson (Associate Professor Reader, Education Studies)
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: Job Interview Skills Practice Workshop
22nd June 2023 | from 13:30
Location: IAS Seminar Room C0.02
With GradTrain
The interview process can be the most daunting part of securing a job. Through skills-practice (old term 'role-play') led by two professional actors, this workshop allows students to try out ideas and approaches in a safe environment and with no consequences of not getting the job! Having the opportunity to see it in action takes the risk out of trying things out for the first time in the actual interview. You can make mistakes, celebrate your improvements and benefit from real-time feedback on the input you are giving our interviewee. Our trainers have in-depth experience in the interview process (from both sides of the fence) and will be able to ensure that you are more comfortable and prepared for when it comes to the real thing. Practice doesn't always make perfect, but it comes a close second!
Accolade: Research Snapshot and End-of-Term Social
29th June 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.