Plymouth-UWE residential programme July 2013

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GRADSchool Programme Plymouth/UWE

4 day programme, Buckland HallMonday 1

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Building a reputation as a researcher

SPECIFIC PROGRAMME VISION

This course has been designed to give participants the space and time to reflect on their work in the company of other researchers. Throughactivity, reflection and discussion there will be an opportunity to take a different perspective on their work to date and where they are taking it to.The vision of the course is that it will create a supportive environment to help participants to think and plan the next stage of their doctorates andthe transition that follows it. The theme for the course is "Building a reputation as a researcher" which will underpin the activities and discussionsthroughout the course.

Notes:Learning Outcomes: The final column of the timetable summarises what each session involves and outlines the learning outcomes in relation to theResearcher Development Framework (RDF).

Tutor Meetings: These are to help manage feedback, review and preparation and will take place each morning.

Name Company / Organisation Roles & Responsibilities

Paul Spencer UWE Course DirectorFull-Time Tutors

1 Sarah Kearns Plymouth University Course Manager/Facilitator

2 Neil Willey UWE Facilitator

3 Helen Frisby UWE Facilitator

4 Chris Russell Think, Inspire, Create Facilitator

5 Mandy Burns Plymouth University Facilitator

Course Staff

1 Paul Spencer Course Director2 Julia Crocker Course Administrator


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Day 0 Sunday 30th

June

Opportunity for tutors to meet each other and familiarise themselves with the venue and the resources available

1630 Course Team MeetVenue

1700 Set-up Course Office

1930 Dinner Dining Room Tutors to meet for dinner

2030 Informal tutor meeting Bar


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Day 1 Monday 1st

JulyGetting to know each other seeing myself through the eyes of others

TIME ACTIVITY LEAD TUTOR ROOM VENUE RDF MAPPING

0800 Breakfast Dining room

0900 Tutor Meeting All Tutors Course Office

1130 ParticipantRegistration

Tea and coffee

Julia Crocker Reception

1200 Directors Intro Paul Spencer Main Plenary Introduction to the course, including the vision and daily themes of the course.

1230 Icebreaker

Paper GiraffeHelen Frisby

&All Tutors

Veranda Session Aims:

To allow the team to get to know one another through a high-energy icebreaker.

Process:

Participants will create a giraffe from the materials supplied in the groups.Competencies developed: (Pr imary)

Working with others: team working (D1)

Working with others: Collaboration (D1) Creativity: Innovation (A3)

1300 Lunch Dining Room

1400 Objective Setting All Tutors Group Rooms Session Aims:Identify and share individual and group objectives for the week.

Competencies Developed: (Pr imary)

Personal qualities: Self-reflection (B1) Personal qualities: Self-management (B2)

Competencies Developed: (Secondary)

Working with others: Collegiality (D1)

Working with others: Mentoring (D1)


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Day 1 Monday 1s JulyGetting to know each other seeing myself through the eyes of others

1500 Interview Workshop

IncludingTea and Coffee midway through for 15

minutes

Groups will finish whenthey finish..

Mandy Burns Main plenary forthose preparing

to beinterviewed

Group Roomsfor those

preparing tointerview

Introduction andConclusion inmain plenary

Session Aims:

Develop ways to improve interview technique and promotion of self. Chance to get to knowgroup.

Process:

Participants have the opportunity to be interviewed by each other using a Competencybased framework and share feedback on their technique.Competencies Developed: (Pr imary)

Professional and Career Development: Career management (B3)

Professional and Career Development: Continuing professional Development (B3)

Competencies developed: (Secondary)

Personal Qualities: Self-reflection (B1)

Engagement, Influence and Impact: Communication methods (D2)

1900 Dinner Dining Room Same time every night to build consistency

2000 Day close, informalTutor drop in and film

night

Free time for participants with the option of informal meetings with facilitators


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Day 2 Tuesday 2nd

JulyLooking at how my research can connect with others



0815 Tutor Meeting All Tutors Course Office Review of the previous Day. Opportunity to run through the logistics of the day and anyroles and responsibilities

0915 Thought for the day Paul Spencer Main Plenary

0930 Communication ofresearch start with

why

Paul Spencer Main plenary Competencies Developed: (Pr imary)

Engagement, influence and impact: Communication methods (D2)

Engagement, influence and impact: Influence and leadership (D1)


Personal effectiveness: Enthusiasm (B1) Personal effectiveness: Integrity (B1)

1130 Introduction tobuddying

Chris Russell Main plenary

1300 Lunch Dining room

1400Collaboration

ChallengeNeil Willey

Main plenary&

Group Rooms

Session Aim & Process

This activity gives the participants the chance to communicate their research to others whomay be less familiar with their area, field or discipline. It then challenges them not only tounderstand others work, but also to consider how they might collaborate in the future on agenuine research project that would combine their skills and professional research interests.

At a higher level, it allows them to explore the prospect of collaborating with people theymight not otherwise consider working with. All of this takes place within the context ofdeveloping and presenting a proposal for a piece of interdisciplinary research.


Research Governance and organisation: Income and funding generation (C3)

Research governance and organisation: Research Strategy (C2)


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Day 2 Tuesday 2n JulyLooking at how my research can connect with others


1700 Group Review All Tutors Group Rooms Session Aims & Process:An in depth review of the days activities focussing on what the participants have learnedabout themselves, as a team and about how they will apply this learning for the rest of thecourse and beyond.


Personal qualities: Self-reflection (B1) Personal qualities: Self-management (B2)




1830 Paired feedback Buddy pairs Time set aside for Buddy pairs to engage in one to one feedback

1900 Dinner Dining room

2030 Day close and TutorDrop In

Participant free time


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Day 3 Wednesday 3rd

JulyLooking at what motivates me as a researcher

Looking at how I can communicate my research in an accessible way




0915 Thought for the day Main Plenary

0930 Motivations andvalues

Chris Russell&

Paul Spencer

Main Plenary

&Group Rooms

Session Aims:

Develop ways to improve knowledge of self. Chance to get to know others in group

Process:Using the model of Appreciative Inquiry, participants will explore their collective motivationsand values that underpin their work in academic research.

Competencies developed: (Pr imary)

Personal qualities integrity & self-reflection (B1)


Cognitive abilities critical thinking & evaluating (A2)

Self-management commitment to research (B2)

1200 Introduction to socialenterprise

Neil Willey Main Plenary Session aims and process:

To expand researchers views of careers beyond academia

To introduce an understanding and concept of business that a ligns better withresearcher motivations

To identify transferable skills from the research environment that can be applied in asocial enterprise or business

To enable researchers to practice communicating ideas with passion and drive.



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Day 3 Wednesday 3r JulyLooking at what motivates me as a researcher



1400 The 2 Minute Thesis Sarah Kearns Main plenary&

group rooms

Session aims and process:

This challenges research students to creatively describe their thesis in two minutes. Pitchedto a mixed-discipline audience. The 2 minute thesis will be video recorded.


Engagement, influence and impact: Communications methods (D2) Engagement, influence and impact: Public engagement (D3)

Personal effectiveness: Enthusiasm (B1)


Personal effectiveness: Self-confidence (B1)

Professional and career development: Continuing professional development (B3)

1700 Group Review All Tutors Group Rooms Session Aims & Process:An in depth review of the days activities focussing on what the participants have learnedabout themselves, as a team and about how they will apply this learning for the rest of thecourse and beyond.

Competencies Developed: (Pr imary) Personal qualities: Self-reflection (B1)

Personal qualities: Self-management (B2)





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1745 Paired feedback Buddy pairs Time set aside for Buddy pairs to engage in one to one feedback

1830 2 Minute Thesis show Sarah Kearns Main plenary The recorded videos from the earlier session will be played back in the Main Plenary room

1900 Dinner Dining room

2000 2 Minute Thesis show Sarah Kearns Main plenary The recorded videos from the earlier session will be played back in the Main Plenary room


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Day 4 Thursday 4th

JulyLooking to my future and how my research skills might be used in my wider career

Looking to my shorter to medium term future and action planning for it




Accommodation rooms must be vacated by 0930. Bags etc. to be stored next to the shoe racks. Bar payments to be finalised by 0930 with Buckland Hall staff

0945 Thought for the day Paul Spencer Main PlenarySession aims and process:

A practical session requiring groups to mix, generate creative ideas and use theexpertise of others within the whole cohort to use their research experience andknowledge of the wider environment to generate a financially viable organisation with asocial purpose or benefit.


Knowledge and intellectual abilities: Problem solving (A2)

Knowledge and intellectual abilities: Innovation (A3)

Engagement, influence and impact: Enterprise (D3)

Engagement, influence and impact: Society and culture (D3)


Engagement, influence and impact: influence and leadership (D1)

Knowledge and intellectual abilities: Inquiring mind (A3)

1000 The Common GoodA social enterprise case

study

Paul Spencer Main Plenary



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Day 4 Thursday 4 JulyLooking to my future and how my research skills might be used in my wider career

Looking to my shorter to medium term future and action planning for it


1400 Action planning Chris Russell Main Plenary

1430 Final group review &buddy pairs

All tutors Main plenarythen group

rooms

Review of the final day. Review of the course.

Action planning.

Closing down activities in the group rooms

Administration and postcards.

1530 Directors CourseReview

Paul Spencer Main plenaryReview of the whole course.

1545 Course Ends (vacatethe venue by 4pm)

Documents

Plymouth-UWE residential programme July 2013