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15 minutes to develop your research career
A new podcast series brought to you by Taylor & Francis and Vitae The series offer practical tips and insights for researchers looking to develop their careers, covering a range of topics: – Public engagement in research – Stepping up, moving on and career paths for researchers – The role of academic mentoring – Overcoming…
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NCCPE Engage Researchers’ Academy
A new initiative from the NCCPE, the Engage Researchers’ Academy is a year long professional development programme for researchers with a passion for public engagement. The programme creates a challenging but supportive environment for delegates to reflect upon what it means to be an engaged researcher, and to explore the quality and value of engagement.…
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Communicating your research – a toolkit
The Health Foundation’s new communications toolkit for research helps researchers to increase the influence and impact of their findings in health and health care. It includes guidance, templates, support materials and links to help develop a communication strategy, package findings for different audiences and engage stakeholders to extend influence and widen impact. Access the toolkit here: http://www.health.org.uk/collection/communications-health-research-toolkit
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Research Impact – Sharing Ideas Event
Impact plays an increasingly important role, not just in the REF but also as being a fundamental part of research design. This workshop explores some of the ongoing examples of research impact being developed at Edge Hill. Researchers from across the University will present their work and discuss how impact has arisen from a variety…
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Barriers to engaging with Parliament for academics
The UK Parliament is committed to working with as diverse a range of people as possible. They have been working for a few years to inform and engage academic researchers in the work of Parliament through training and other activities. They have just launched an online survey about the barriers to engaging with Parliament for…
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Getting published: Only one step in disseminating your findings – Journal of Child Health Care – Bernie Carter, 2017
Professor Bernie Carter from the Faculty of Health and Social Care has written a piece for the Journal of Child Health Care highlighting methodologies for disseminating academic research messages beyond the academic community. The approaches described in the article are applicable to most research areas and provide a useful reference when thinking about wider engagement.…
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Visit from The Conversation
Edge Hill has been a member of the online publication The Conversation for the last year. It provides an outlet for researchers at universities to write short pieces on topical issues. These articles are typically around 800 words and could be comment, analysis or explanatory pieces. Articles in The Conversation are aimed at the general…
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Research for All: Journal for Public Engagement Activities
This blog highlights an exciting new journal that launched in January 2017 highlighting engagement between University researchers and non-academic partners. The journal is co-sponsored by the UCL Institute of Education and the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). The journal was recently featured in a Times Higher article. The journal has been established to spread…
