Graphic Engagement Workshop – Dec 6th, 2018

Posted by gillecdton October 11, 2018October 11, 2018in good practice, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities

Join the University of Birmingham Public Engagement with Research team (Dr Caroline Gillett & Dr Leah Fitzsimmons) for the first in our new series of standalone creative workshops aimed at showcasing how innovative collaborations between researchers and others artists/creatives/makers can open doors to engaging new audiences with the amazing work that researchers do.

This workshop focuses on ‘Graphic Engagement’ i.e. collaborations with graphic artists, illustrators, comic enthusiasts etc. You’ll hear directly from four University of Birmingham researchers already carrying out such collaborations, though all are at slightly different stages of development. Some are still starting out, whilst others are building on previous work that has been successful.

University of Birmingham researchers include:

Prof Jonathan Reinarz (History of Medicine) – discussing his Forged by Fire project that covers research on burns injury and identity in Britain c.1800-2000.
Dr Christalla Yakinthou (Political Science) – discussing her short graphic novel which focuses on storytelling & conflict transformation in deeply divided, post-war countries.
Dr Tom Dunkley Jones (Earth & Environmental Science) – discussing his work with a manga artist to bring to life the evolution of the Earth’s climate & marine ecosystems.
Dr Amaury Triaud (Physics) – discussing how bandes dessinées (comic strips) and graphic design can bring recent Astronomy discoveries such as TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets to a novel audience, engaging them with the research content.

In addition, we are pleased to also welcome Pen Mendonça an independent graphic facilitator and cartoonist with over 20 years’ experience of facilitating public engagement. Pen has just submitted her PhD which developed the new mode of ‘values-based cartooning’ as a research method, employed here for a study of single motherhood. She will share insights on this alongside our researchers.

Image Credit (Header): Graphic facilitation by Pen Mendonca at Southwark Untold with Pempeople and LITC, Tate Modern, London 2018.

WHEN: Thursday 6th December, 2018

WHERE: The Civil & Mechnical Engineering building, room G36 – this is located in Yellow (Y3) the campus map visible here. More general directions on how to travel on to campus y bus, train or car can be found here.

TIME: 11:45-15:00, starting promptly at noon.

Further details can be found on the Eventbrite page HERE

BORDER CROSSINGS: Want to turn your research into a documentary film? (Deadline May 23, 2018)

Posted by gillecdton May 14, 2018in Awards and Prizes, Competition, Dissemination, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities2 Comments

Filmmakers, are you ready for an academic project to inspire your storytelling? Would you like to collaborate with some of the world’s leading scholars? Could your film skills make some brilliant academic research accessible to wider audiences?

Academics, do you have a research story that could be turned into a documentary film project? Would you like to collaborate with a professional filmmaker with an established track record? Do you want to share your research with a wide public audience?

To celebrate our new Creative Documentary by Practice MFA (to be led by Sophie Fiennes, Kim Longinotto and Riete Oord), Open City Documentary Festival are relaunching their Border Crossings initiative with a £5,000 development fund for filmmakers collaborating with academics who have a research story in search of an author. A runner’s up prize of £2,500 will also be awarded.

Taking place as part of UCL’s Festival of Culture, this is an exciting ‘speed-dating’ initiative aiming to build partnerships, to create opportunities for research and knowledge to be translated into insightful and engaging documentary and to allow filmmakers access to table-turning research stories.

The deadline for applications is midnight on 23rd May 2018

There are places for 10 filmmakers and 10 researchers. During the course of the two hour session, researchers and filmmakers will meet to discuss their work and will form teams following this meeting. These teams will be eligible to apply for the £5,000 development fund. All applicants will pitch their projects to a panel of expert judges during Open City Documentary Festival 2018 (4th – 9th September). The award will go to the most exciting and viable project pitched.

FURTHER INFO HERE

To apply for a place at the Border Crossings event on the 7th of June, please fill in the below form

Academics – APPLY

Filmmakers – APPLY

Engaging with government programme

Posted by uobengageon August 22, 2017in Training Event, Upcoming opportunities

The Arts and Humanities Research Council, in partnership with the Institute for Government, invites applications for its engaging with the government programme. This enables early-career researchers to attend a three-day course, to be held from 6 to 8 March 2018 in London. The course is designed to provide insight into the policy-making process and to enable academics to apply this to their own research. The aim is to build links between policy makers and the new research in the arts and humanities. The programme will:

encourage participants to think about the ways in which their own research could make a valuable contribution to public policy;
challenge participants to think in more depth about the policy process, and the role of research within it;
increase the influencing and communication skills that participants need to achieve this.

Early-career researchers working in any area of arts and humanities, including social sciences, may apply. Applicants must be either within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training, or within six years of their first academic appointment. They must be employed in a full- or part-time postdoctoral or equivalent position at a UK HEI, independent research organisation or research council institute.

Funding covers course, accommodation, travel and subsistence costs for up to 20 attendees.

Application form is here.

The closing date is 25 Sep 17 and if you have further questions, please email the AHRC here.

Science & Religion – BSA Science Communication Masterclass (10-11 May)

Posted by gillecdton May 5, 2017May 5, 2017in good practice, networking events, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities

The British Science Association and Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum, are pleased to announce a free, two-day workshop on Science Communication and Religion.

The event is particularly recommended for science communicators with an interest in religion and faith, or those working with emotive or sometimes controversial themes.

You can read more about the project here:http://sciencereligionspectrum.org/about-2

The event aims to:

Improve familiarity and literacy in communicating on science and religion
Explore areas of faith, trust, belief, and religion in science communication
Support attendees to develop new outputs, partnerships and projects

Sessions will be led by science communication practitioners and academics from a variety of disciplines researching the intersection of science and religion in public spaces. The sessions will be framed by preliminary data from the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project and there will be practical exercises built around case-studies, proposals and evaluation plans. The full programme will be released over the next few weeks, with sessions including:

Storytelling: balancing narrative and ‘truth’
Hosting constructive debates
Science and religion, past and present
Partnerships and participation: an external perspective
Beyond box ticking: The evaluation, revision, and re-delivery cycle
Trust in science, trust in sci-comm? Moving the conversation forward

Presenters and panelists include: Dr Alexander Hall (Newman University), Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker (Newman University), James Riley (Rising Ape), Ivvet Modinou (British Science Association), Charlotte Hale (FLUX: Moving Science), Brian Lobel (Sick of the Fringe) , and more to be announced.

The event is free to attend, including travel and accommodation costs associated with attendance. Places are limited, so early-sign-up is encouraged. A deposit of £15 is payable to secure your place on this event, which will be refunded upon attendance.

Note that this workshop is funded by the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project. Attendance, travel, and accommodation are provided free of charge on the understanding that participants contribute to the workshop debates and engage with the project’s research. Post workshop there will be opportunities for attendees to create science communication materials and outputs related to the workshop content and wider research findings of the project.

For information and to sign up go HERE

Image & content: British Science Association

MDS Postdocs: Media Fellowship with the British Science Association

Posted by gillecdton February 16, 2017in INTERNSHIPS / PLACEMENTS, Public engagement fellowships, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities

MDS have signed an agreement to sponsor one Media Fellowship with the British Science Association in 2017 and we are seeking to nominate an academic at post-doc level or above who would benefit from the experience. There are a total of 12 fellowships available nationally, 1 of which will be from MDS. The Media Fellowships aim to give scientists, clinicians and their colleagues, the confidence and willingness to engage with the media and tackle issues of mistrust and misrepresentation and to give journalists access to new scientific expertise. The scheme is not available to PhD students.

There is an internal selection process and if interested, please could you complete the Survey Monkey by Wednesday 15 March 2017, the link to which is https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MediaFellow-Birmingham17

This will serve as the internal application form. A Person Specification is attached for your information.

Please be aware that candidates will be required to commit to the training/leadership days as well as attendance at the British Science Festival in Brighton, as per the attached Terms and Conditions. In addition the placement will be between 2 and 6 weeks depending on type, mostly likely to take place between June and September 2017.

From the applications received the College Executive team will choose and submit 2 candidates to the British Science Association who, after a short telephone interview with each candidate, will select and notify the successful Fellow in May 2017.

Further details can be found at https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/media-fellows-applications

With kind regards,

Janet Lord

Register now: Public Engagement with Research Day 2016

Posted by gillecdton October 21, 2016October 24, 2016in Awards and Prizes, case study, good practice, networking events, Raising Awareness, social event, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities1 Comment

Public Engagement with Research Committee (PERC) warmly invites you to join our 3rd annual Public Engagement with Research Day on Thursday 15th December, 2016. PER Day is our signature whole-day event dedicated to sharing best practice, skills and learning around public engagement. This event is also a space to celebrate and recognize the PER efforts of our research community whilst offering opportunities to open up dialogue about the future direction of PER at Birmingham with senior management and external research funders. We hope you will seize this opportunity to contribute and take part in our away day. This is your chance to ask the University, funders and other academics the how, why, what, when, who of public engagement. This lively event is meant to support, inspire and thought-provoke!

Last year’s event was fully booked and this year we are aiming for an even bigger and better turnout. Register now and don’t miss out! Our theme for this year is ‘Interdisciplinary Public Engagement’.

The event is open to all University of Birmingham research staff and students as well as professionals services staff. We welcome and encourage research labs/groups and other university teams who wish to join us for an away day focused on PER. Please register all interested parties by emailing engage@contacts.bham.ac.uk your name, school/dept & College. Please title your email PER Day. Registration is necessary for catering.

Keep up to date by following @UOBengage and the hashtag #perc2016

~Programme~

(any updates or changes to the programme will be listed on this page)

The 3^rd Annual Public Engagement with Research Day 2016

“Interdisciplinary Public Engagement”

Thursday December 15, 2016

University House (Birmingham Business School) – Lecture Hall G12

9:30 – 10:00 Registration: Tea & coffee

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome: Public Engagement with Research (PER) 2016 update

Contributions from Dr Eliot Marston, Deputy Head of Research & Knowledge Transfer, MDS & Dr Caroline Gillett, PER Officer, Research Planning

10:15 – 11:00 GET INVOLVED IN 2017: RCUK Catalyst Seed Fund “Leading to Engage” cohort

Contributions from the “Leading to Engage 16”

Meet some of the 16 public engagement champions recruited from academics across the five Colleges. The cohort will outline the public engagement work they have been involved with as well as highlighting upcoming opportunities to input into PER Committee discussions as part of new College level PER fora beginning early 2017.

11.00 – 11:45 OPEN DISCUSSION: What should PER look like in Birmingham by 2020?

Reflections from Professor of Public Engagement with Science and PERC co-chair, Alice Roberts.

11:45 – 12:00 Award Presentations

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch & Networking

12:45 – 13:15 CASE STUDY: Voices of War & Peace: Reflections on working with communities in engagement and research

Contributions from Professor Ian Grosvenor (VWP Director, Professor of Urban Education History; PERC co-chair) & Dr Nicola Gauld (VWP, Coordinator)

The Voices of War & Peace AHRC WW1 Engagement Centre has collaborated with a wide range of community groups on WW1 projects since January 2014 and will reflect on that process as it prepares for the next phase of commemorative activity to 2019.

13:15 – 13:45 Changing the Culture for Public Engagement with Research in Birmingham

Contributions from Professor Tim Softley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Transfer & Professor Saul Becker, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Sciences.

13:45 – 14:15 Changing the Culture for Public Engagement nationally

The University warmly welcomes a number of representatives from major research funders:

Chloe Sheppard, Researchers’ Engagement Manager at the Wellcome Trust

Kate Pryor-Williams, Relationship Manager: Visual Arts, Arts Council England

[an additional funder representative is also being confirmed]

14:15 – 15:00 PANEL: ‘Given the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborations, what are the opportunities to engage the public in new ways?’

Panel chair: Dr Elizabeth Westlake, Director of Research Planning (tbc)

Panelists: Chloe Sheppard, Kate Pryor-Williams, Professor Alice Roberts, Professor Tim Softley, Professor Saul Becker

15:00 – 15:15 Break: Tea & coffee + facilitated networking exercise

15:15 – 16:30 WORKSHOP: Choose from one of two workshops

Option 1: How to create a PER demo in 30 minutes

Join Debbie Ringham (Research Engagement Manager, Cancer Research UK) and PER Officer Dr Caroline Gillett to run through some internally developed props, followed by an interactive challenge which will bring together your interdisciplinary ideas to work into a coherent proposition for a new demo/activity that PERC will look to fund.

Option 2: Evaluation of TV programming (in Room G07 next door)

Join Dr Melissa Grant (Senior Lecturer, Dentistry) for her session from the Engage 2016 Conference. This will look at innovative ways of evaluating the impact of your contribution to or /appearances on TV programmes. If evaluation of public engagement impact is important to you (and it should be!) then don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about Melissa’s methods.

16:30 – 17:30 Xmas Celebration & Postgraduate Public Engagement Busking

Enjoy a seasonal drink and mince pie whilst networking with colleagues and leave inspired by taking part in a playful hour of science-arts-humanities ‘busking’ demos courtesy of our postgraduate community.

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Social Media for Impact workshop (Nov 1st)

Posted by uobengageon September 19, 2016September 23, 2016in Training Event, Upcoming opportunities1 Comment

Social Media for Research Impact

Tuesday 1st November 2016
10.00-14.00
G13, Nuffield

This event is for all those who are interested in understanding how they can make more effective use of a range of social media in order to maximise the visibility and potential impact of their research.

Target audience: UoB Academic researchers and Professional Services supporting research, impact, engagement and communications.

Our key speaker for this event will be Professor Mark Reed, Professor of Socio-Technical Innovation at Newcastle University who has made a significant contribution to research impact training with the launch of ‘Fast Track Impact’.

Click on the link below to register for a place at this workshop.

For more information email Research Planning Partner for MDS/LES, Veronica Littlewood: V.R.Littlewood@bham.ac.uk

For further details, contact

Ronni Littlewood
Research Planning Partner

v.r.littlewood@bham.ac.uk

DOC/FEST RESEARCHER PROGRAMME – CALLING BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS

Posted by gillecdton May 17, 2016in Biomedical Sciences, INTERNSHIPS / PLACEMENTS, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities

DOC/FEST RESEARCHER PROGRAMME – CALLING BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS

Do you love documentary? Are you a postdoctoral scientist? Sheffield Doc/Fest is offering five researchers the opportunity to attend this year’s Festival.

Network with filmmakers and broadcast commissioners, and see some of the world’s finest documentary films being made today. Travel, accreditation, and accommodation are covered. Applicants must have a PhD in biomedical sciences.

Wellcome Trust are also supporting a series of talks at the festival which researchers might enjoy: http://bit.ly/1XnMcxG

Please contact marketing@sidf.co.uk with a short bio and reasons why you would like to attend Doc/Fest.

HERMES 2016: Materials Modelling & Science Communication (Deadline 29th Feb)

Posted by gillecdton January 14, 2016in Awards and Prizes, Training Event, Upcoming opportunities

Dimitra Spathara, PhD student in Met & Mat, EPS is helping organize the summer school HERMES 2016: An entirely student-led project that brings together materials modelling and science communication. If you are interested contact Dimitra directly: dataviz@contacts.bham.ac.uk

World-class academics, such as Prof. Kurt Kremer and Prof. Nicola Spaldin will be given masterclasses at Materials Modelling. More details here

Science Communication Theme (2016) : Data Visualisation

Young researchers will receive training in Data Visualisation through a blend of talks/ workshops and tasks. On previous events the theme was short presentations (2014) and video making (2012).

Prof. Craig Carter is a world-class materials modeller, and for the previous two times HERMES was held, he was one of the academics to give a masterclass. At the following event (2016), he will give training on data visualisation connected to materials modelling by using specific software. Piero Vitelli is coming for the second time to give a talk on delivering presentations and public engagement. Lulu Pinney is invited to train participants on how their data visuals can work in their research storytelling.

Some useful information:

– HERMES 2016 takes place in 27-31 July 2016, Cumberland Lodge. The schedule can be found here

– Short Presentation of HERMES here

Applications have already started and the deadline for early-bird applicants is due to February 29th 2016. More information here.

Some details about the organizing committee, incl. Dimitra here.

Prizes for the Science Communication task are sponsored by PRISM2 based in the School of Metallurgy & Materials.

WORKSHOP / Revealing Research: An Introduction to Public Engagement (Feb 24th)

Posted by gillecdton January 12, 2016in networking events, Training Event

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher? Are you interested in getting involved with public engagement but are unsure how to communicate your research effectively? If so, come along to an introductory workshop to learn valuable skills to get you started with public engagement!

The workshop is a 3 hour interactive session designed by UoB researchers for UoB researchers. It aims to develop and build upon some of the essential skills necessary to deliver research effectively to the public. The brief aims of the workshop are:

Meet PhD students/ECRs from across the University and find out about the public engagement they do.
Explore what public engagement with research means and develop useful skills through interactive group activities and discussions.
Network with others and learn about opportunities for you to get involved.

Learning objectives:

Deepen your understanding of public engagement with research.
Learn essential skills/techniques which can be applied for your own public engagement.
Identify your skills and think about next steps or further training to take you forward.

The workshop is open to postgraduate and early career researchers from all Colleges and will be based at N334 in the Gispert Kapp building on Wednesday 24^th February 2016 from 1-4pm.

To reserve your place, please email c.d.t.gillett@bham.ac.uk with ‘Revealing Research Workshop’ in the title. Please also include your name, position (e.g. 2^nd Year PhD, Postdoc), School/department and your College.

The workshop has a limited number of spaces so registration is essential and will be on a first-come basis.

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Social Media for Research Impact

Tuesday 1st November 2016 10.00-14.00 G13, Nuffield

Tuesday 1st November 2016
10.00-14.00
G13, Nuffield