On behalf of the Higher Education Academy, Angus Carpenter (Research Centre Manager, City College Norwich) and Becky Turner (HELP CETL, University of Plymouth) have organised a further two, one-day events to support practitioners to engage with scholarly activity and research, and provide managers with information and systems that they may need to manage scholarly activity / research within an FEC.  

These events will address key issues for both practitioners and managers within FECs involved with research / scholarly activity, such as:

i. the meaning of scholarly activity/research and how to build a research ethos;

ii. the key research processes, including research design/dissemination;

iii. making funding applications;

iv. key resources to support their engagement with scholarly activity;

v. considerations for and management of scholarly activity/research within an FEC;

vi. institutional impacts from Scholarly Activity / research.

The workshops will take place on:

 — 25 March 2010 at Engineering CETL, Loughborough University

 — 11 June 2010 at City of Bristol College, Ashley Down Centre

For further details visit and booking form: www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/universitiesandcolleges/heinfe  or contact Sara Bath sara.bath@heacademy.ac.uk

Research Assistant required:

To take a lead role in the evaluation of UEA’s BEACONS for Public Engagement project, which is a novel project funded by Hefce/Welcome Trust/RCUK. Duties will include undertaking reviews, data collection and analysis of activities for evaluation and feeding back into the project to aid future activities. This is a 2 year post that requires a highly capable person to undertake all aspects of evaluation for the project. Further details can be found on the City College Norwich website under vacancies: http://www.fejobs.com/Job.aspx?VacNo=337071&Page=1

On behalf of the Higher Education Academy, Angus Carpenter (Research Centre Manager, City College Norwich) and Becky Turner (HELP CETL, University of Plymouth) have organised three, one-day events to support practitioners to engage with scholarly activity and research, and provide managers with information and systems that they may need to manage scholarly activity / research within an FEC.  These events will address the following key aspects:

i)                     The meaning of scholarly activity and research;
ii)                   The key aspects of the research process including research design/dissemination;
iii)                  Making funding applications;
iv)                  Managing a research project;
v)                    Key resources to support their engagement with scholarly activity;
vi)                  Considerations for, and the management of scholarly activity and research in an FEC;
vii)                 Institutional impacts from scholarly activity and research.