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Date: 4 October 2024 at 14:16:22 GMT+1

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Welcome Back from Professor Iain Docherty, Dean, Institute for Advanced Studies I'd like to welcome you all to the 2024-25 Academic Year. Our Postgraduate Research student community continues to grow and diversify in terms of the opportunities we offer and the skills and experiences that you bring to enrich and enliven University life. This year, we are delighted to welcome the second cohort of our Institute for Advanced Studies studentship holders. We are also joined by new students across our participating Doctoral Training Partnerships, including from the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, which formally begins its new ten year programme this month. More students will join us as the year progresses across all of our programmes. For those of you who are returning, please accept my congratulations on your progress so far, and continue to enjoy the journey towards successful completion of your degree.   To my colleagues without whom our PGR programme would not be the success it is, thank you again for your support and commitment. Over the last year, the quality of your supervision was highlighted in both student surveys and the outcome of the University’s latest quality review, which commended us for sector best practice. More widely, the University’s recent success in major grant competitions means that we will have additional research teams, involving both PGRs and research staff, developing over the year ahead. Researcher Development Programme 2024-25 The Researcher Development Programme has a diverse range of internally led sessions on this semester focussing on impact, writing and publishing and ethics in research practice and much more.    Look out for the RDP calendar which will be launched next week in the meanwhile some new sessions from RIBE below:  What’s new     Funding Sessions The highly popular Research Grant Funding workshop series delivered by Research Funding and Development Team (part of the Research, Innovation and Business Engagement Directorate) returns.    These interactive ‘how to’ sessions will explore key aspects of the research application lifecycle to support the outcome of a successful research proposal or fellowship application. The series also includes specific sessions on using Worktribe, the University system used to manage research projects, open to those new to using Worktribe or those in need of a refresher. Sessions kick off on 23 October, register now for semester 1 workshops.   23.10.24 How to get started with Worktribe - online 13.00-14.00 30.10.24 How to cost a research application properly - online 13.00-14.00  28.11.24 Applying for a Fellowship - online 13.00-14.00 Find more sessions     New Impact Training Series We are delighted that a new series of impact-focussed workshops delivered by the Research Performance and Impact Team will kick off on 18 November as part of the Researcher Development Programme, with a total of 6 workshops running through to February 2025.   These workshops are aimed at supporting researchers at different stages in their impact journeys (from those completely new to impact to those who may already have impact projects underway), and will explore different tools to help plan for, evidence, and evaluate impact.    Understanding impact    18.11.24  Introduction to Impact  27.11.24 Planning for Impact   11.12.24  Impact clinic drop-in session       Find more workshops     Research Staff Induction This semester’s Research Staff induction will take place later this month on Tuesday 29 October from 11.45am-13.30pm.     This in-person event is for all new research active staff and staff supporting research and an opportunity to meet some of the teams supporting research activity with some brief presentations on key research support services as well as some Faculty research overview.     Join us from 11.45am for some refreshments as an opportunity to network and a light lunch at 1.00pm to continue conversations.     The induction event will be followed straight afterwards by one of the monthly Research Culture Conversations (1.30pm-2.30pm) exploring the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.  We hope you can stay for those discussions.   If you would like to join us, please contact ias@stir.ac.uk       PGR Induction We are excited to welcome our new PGR students to Stirling!  The first event in the IAS induction 2024 programme will be an in-person event on October 9th 2024.    This is a morning in Campus Central, and a great opportunity to meet other new students from across the institution.    Please can anyone attending sign up here. There is also an MS Teams for Induction which you will be added to automatically.   Any questions, please get in touch, and we look forward to seeing you on Oct 9th! Researcher Development Programme     Postgraduate Researcher Sessions Upcoming sessions for PGRs   Read more »     Research Staff Sessions Upcoming sessions for Research Staff.     Read more »     Supervisor Sessions Upcoming sessions for Supervisors.     Read more »     Stirling Crucible applications opening soon  Applications for the next Stirling Crucible will be opening soon.     The Stirling Crucible is a biannual development opportunity for early career research staff (ECRs) to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitate building active networks of researchers across the University and beyond, and grow individual researchers’ creativity, innovation and confidence in working with others to generate research with real world impact.    What have past participants had to say?    ‘This was a really great experience and one of the best things I have done across my year as an early career researcher’    ‘I would recommend participating in this programme even if you do feel confident in your abilities and capacities as an academic. It acts as a reminder and gives structure to some of the idea you may already have and getting feedback in your ideas is the best part of the Crucible. I highly recommend this!’    Look out for applications opening via Staff Roundup, Faculty newsletters and announcements on the IAS Research Staff Canvas module https://canvas.stir.ac.uk/courses/5106    For any for queries in the meanwhile, please contact crucible@stir.ac.uk  In this issue... Research Staff Induction PGR Induction Research Culture Conversations New Impact Training Series Funding Sessions Congratulations     The Institute of Advanced Studies send warmest congratulations to:     Dr Betul Battilani  Dr Tsai-Yi (Janet) Chu  Dr Julie Eshleman  Dr Oluwasamilola Fasina Dr Jibril Yakubu Jibril  Dr Esther Oyebola   who have passed their Viva, recently received their award and will soon graduate from the University.  What else is on?     Research Culture Conversations    Research Culture Conversations are back. These monthly lunch time events led by Prof Rachel Norman (Chair of Food Security & Sustainability) explore a different topic relating to research culture and environment and are open to all with an interest in research culture.     Register for upcoming sessions over October and November:    29.10.24 Concordat for Researcher Development  29.11.24 Professional Development    If you’d like to suggest a topic for discussion or lead a session, please contact ias@stir.ac.uk    View past Conversations on the IAS Canvas page  ESRC IAA 2024-25 Funding Deadline The deadline for proposals to the Social Science Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) is Thursday, 31 October 2024 (5 pm).     The IAA has allocated around £150,000 budget for this funding round. Full Guidance to Applicants and Frequently Asked Questions are available on the IAA SharePoint site. For any questions regarding this call for proposals please contact IAA team on impactaccelerator@stir.ac.uk.   ISMH  2nd Annual Open Meeting The Institute for Social Marketing and Health are delighted to invite you to register for the ISMH Open Meeting on Wednesday 13 November, 12-4pm in Room C2A93,  You can register to attend at this link. You can read about the ISMH and their Team here: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/health-sciences-sport/research/research-groups/institute-for-social-marketing/. More Things Research Culture Prof Rachel Norman (Chair of Food Security & Sustainability) will be joining the panel session on Research Integrity & Culture as part of the Research and Innovation Culture Conference (Friday 15 November, 11.30am).     This conference hosted by the Celtic Academies Alliance (partnership of the Royal Irish Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Learned Society of Wales) seeks to explore how research environments converge and differ in terms of their research culture and how each of the devolved nations represented might learn from each other.    Find out full info and register.     Standing Up for Science Sense about Science will be running a FREE, practical, and interactive Standing up for Science workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on Friday 01 November at the University of Edinburgh. The workshop aims to build the confidence and skills of ECRs to engage in the public discourse around science, research, and the research process.    Hear from researchers further along in their careers about their experiences, good and bad, of working with the media and policy worlds, from experienced media and policy professionals about how their worlds work and what they need from scientists to operate effectively and receive tools and insights on how best to communicate some of the most complex issues of science and evidence. IAS webpage See the website Missed an Edition? Catch up with the IAS archive. PGR archive Staff archive Contact us Email the IAS team. @IAS_Stir Institute for Advanced Studies Look out for the RDP calendar which will be launched next week. 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