Funding opportunities for early career researchers 

‌Priti Meredith

‌‌This one-hour workshop will focus on the opportunities available to newly qualified researchers to help broaden their networks and increase their knowledge and experience of research funding. The workshop includes; advice on where to register to become research proposal evaluators; raising awareness of the Erasmus exchange scheme; and how to source relevant funding opportunities.

‌The second half of the workshop will take the audience through Research Professional, a funding opportunities database which allows researchers to search for research funding in all disciplines from a wide range of sponsors in the UK and overseas.

How to create awareness for your research

Prof Thorsten Gruber

‌The role of academic impact is becoming increasingly important in academia. Academic impact is defined as the influence academics have upon another academics or researchers. Universities normally use journal rankings and journal impact factors to assess the academic impact of individual academics. More recently, however, citation counts for individual articles have been used as well.

Especially PhD students and early career researchers now have to carefully and strategically plan research projects and actively create awareness for their good work. Citation scores may also be important for recruitment, tenure and promotion decisions.

The workshop will therefore cover the following topics: Why are citations important, what influences the number of citations, which metrics are available, and, most importantly, how can PhD students and early career researchers create awareness for their work and improve citation scores?

Transition from PhD to academia

Dr Alok Choudhary

Transitioning from PhD to academia can be very challenging and stressful. In this session, I will discuss my personal experience and provide practical advice about steps a PhD can take to maximize their chances for getting an academic job just after or before their PhD.

This session will discuss:

• What is broadly expected in an academic role including its four different dimensions 1) research 2) teaching 3) leadership, management and administration and 4) professional and external Standing.  I will also emphasis on the broad domain of research including research publication, research collaboration, research funding, research impact and research visibility. 
• I will provide some best practices for each area of academic jobs. I will discuss some success recipes to distinguish a PhD from other competitors in the job market. 
• This session will provide some video cases from recent PhDs, who successfully managed to get a lectureship before finishing their PhDs and the factors which helped them to get a job in the UK. You will also hear from some of the UK’s leading academics from top UK universities, who has great deal of experience in recruiting new lecturers about their expectations, when they recruit a new lecturer.
• Finally, I will highlight what one should do in addition to their PhD during their 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of PhD to not only prepare them but also distinguish them from competition in the job market.

Visualise your PhD – Poster Design

Dr Nicola Bateman

This workshop is about how to design a poster to best showcase your research. Posters are a great way to engage other researchers and industrial partners in work.  

We will be considering how to reflect the narrative of your research in the poster format.  The workshop will focus on data presentation, use of images, flow of poster elements and ‘must have’ details.  Attendees will have the chance to critique existing posters and are encouraged to bring along their own designs either finished or in progress.

Advancing your early academic career

Dr Ian Hodgkinson

‌This workshop is designed for students from all years of PhD study who want insights into advancing their early academic career. Within this workshop we will consider the role of the ‘PhD pipeline’, its importance, and how to develop it for sustainable publications. Within this discussion we will address the merits of ‘publish or perish’ and what this means for balancing the demands of research, teaching, and administration.

Being a rounded academic is seldom a choice these days, with pressures to perform well on all fronts, having a strategy in place is therefore a necessity to maintaining and developing research of significance and value.

How to publish in top service journals

Professor Zoe Radnor

This will be a reviewers and editors' panel led by Professor Radnor. 

Doctoral students will be encourage to interact with the following academics: 

• Dr Sharon Williams - Operations Management
• Dr Vicky Story - Marketing 
• Professor Bo Edvardsson - Service Management
• Dr Ali Ataullah - Accounting and Finance
• Dr Donald Hislop - Human Resources Management
• Dr Julie Holland - Strategy and Innovation
• Dr Ian Hodgkinson - Service Management