SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall

Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
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. Through
activity, 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 to create a supportive environment to help participants to think and plan the next stage of their doctorates and the
transition that follows it. The theme for the course is "Building a reputation as a researcher" which will underpin the activities and discussions
throughout the course.
Notes:
Learning Outcomes: The final column of the timetable summarises what each session involves and outlines the learning outcomes in relation to the
Researcher Development Framework (RDF).
Tutor Meetings: These are to help manage feedback, review and preparation and will take place each morning.
Name
Paul Spencer
Full-Time Tutors
1
Sarah Kearns
2
Neil Willey
3
Richard McClatchey
4
Anne Goodman
5
Jasmine HunterEvans
Course Staff
1
Paul Spencer
2
Erik Buchhierl

Company / Organisation

Roles & Responsibilities

UWE

Course Director

Plymouth University
UWE
UWE
Freelance
Bath Spa

Facilitator
Facilitator
Facilitator
Facilitator
Facilitator

Course Director
Course Administrator

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher

TIME
0800
0900

ACTIVITY
Breakfast
Facilitator Meeting

1130

Participant
Registration
Tea and coffee
Directors Intro
Icebreaker

1200
1230

Day 1 Tuesday 28th June

Getting to know each other seeing myself through the eyes of others
LEAD TUTOR
ROOM VENUE RDF MAPPING
Dining room
All facilitators
Course Office
Reception
Paul Spencer

Main Plenary
Veranda

Neil Willey

Introduction to the course, including the vision and daily themes of the course.
Session Aims:
To allow the team to get to know one another through a high-energy icebreaker.

Paper Giraffe
Process:
Participants will create a giraffe from the materials supplied in the groups.
Competencies developed: (Primary)
Working with others: team working (D1)
Working with others: Collaboration (D1)
Creativity: Innovation (A3)
1300
1400

Lunch
Objective Setting

All Facilitators

Dining Room
Group Rooms

Session Aims:
Identify and share individual and group objectives for the week.
Competencies Developed: (Primary)
Personal qualities: Self-reflection (B1)

Personal qualities: Self-management (B2)

Competencies Developed: (Secondary)
Working with others: Collegiality (D1)
Working with others: Mentoring (D1)

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 1 Tuesday 28th June
Getting to know each other seeing myself through the eyes of others
1500

Interview Workshop
Including
Tea and Coffee mid
way through for 15
minutes

Anne
Goodman?

Main plenary for

those preparing
to be
interviewed
Group Rooms
for those
preparing to
interview

Groups will finish when

they finish..

Introduction and
Conclusion in
main plenary
1900
2000

Dinner
Day close, informal
Tutor drop in and film
night

Dining Room
All facilitators

Session Aims:
Develop ways to improve interview technique and promotion of self. Chance to get to know
group.
Process:
Participants have the opportunity to be interviewed by each other using a Competency
based framework and share feedback on their technique.
Competencies Developed: (Primary)
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)
Same time every night to build consistency
Free time for participants with the option of informal meetings with facilitators

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 2 Wednesday 29th June
Looking at my motivations behind my research and how it can connect with others
TIME
0730
0815

ACTIVITY
Breakfast
Facilitator Meeting

0915
0930

Thought for the day

Communication of
research start with
why

LEAD
All Facilitators

ROOM VENUE
Dining room
Course Office

Paul Spencer
Paul Spencer

Main Plenary
Main plenary

RDF MAPPING
Review of the previous Day. Opportunity to run through the logistics of the day and any
roles and responsibilities
Competencies Developed: (Primary)
Engagement, influence and impact: Communication methods (D2)
Engagement, influence and impact: Influence and leadership (D1)
Competencies developed: (Secondary)
Personal effectiveness: Enthusiasm (B1)
Personal effectiveness: Integrity (B1)

1130
1300
1400

Introduction to
buddying
Lunch

Sarah Kearns

Collaboration
Challenge

Richard
McClatchey/N
eil Willey

Main plenary
Dining room
Main plenary
&
Group Rooms

Session Aim & Process

This activity gives the participants the chance to communicate their research to others who
may be less familiar with their area, field or discipline. It then challenges them not only to
understand others work, but also to consider how they might collaborate in the future on a
genuine 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 they
might not otherwise consider working with. All of this takes place within the context of
developing and presenting a proposal for a piece of interdisciplinary research.
Competencies Developed: (Primary)
Research Governance and organisation: Income and funding generation (C3)
Research governance and organisation: Research Strategy (C2)

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 2 Wednesday 29th June
Looking at my motivations behind my research and how it can connect with others
TIME

ACTIVITY

LEAD

ROOM VENUE

RDF MAPPING

1700

Group Review

All Facilitators

Group Rooms

Session Aims & Process:

An in depth review of the days activities focussing on what the participants have learned
about themselves, as a team and about how they will apply this learning for the rest of the
course and beyond.
Competencies Developed: (Primary)
Personal qualities: Self-reflection (B1)

Personal qualities: Self-management (B2)

Competencies Developed: (Secondary)
Working with others: Collegiality (D1)
Working with others: Mentoring (D1)

1830
1900
2030

Paired feedback
Dinner
Day close and
Facilitator Drop In

Buddy pairs

Time set aside for Buddy pairs to engage in one to one feedback
Dining room

All

Participant free time

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 3 Thursday 30th June
Integrity in research and values as a researcher
Looking at how I can communicate my research in an accessible way
TIME
0730
0815

ACTIVITY
Breakfast
Facilitator Meeting

0915
0930

Thought for the day

Integrity in research

LEAD
All Facilitators
Svetlana
Cicmil

ROOM VENUE
Dining room
Course Office
Main Plenary
Main Plenary

RDF MAPPING
Review of the previous Day. Opportunity to run through the logistics of the day and any
roles and responsibilities
Session Aims:
Develop better understanding of the broad range of professional standards required to
undertake research
Process:
Using a Dilemma game developed by Erasmus University Rotterdam, participants will
explore a number of situations that commonly occur in the contemporary research
environment and discuss approaches
Competencies developed (Primary)
Professional Conduct ethics, principles and sustainability (C1)
Professional and career development reputation and esteem (B3)

1200

Break
Followed by
mindfulness/visualisatio
n

Svetlana
Cicmil

Competencies developed (Secondary)

Engagement and impact global citizenship (D3)
Personal qualities integrity (B1)
Session Aims:
Process:
Competencies developed: (Primary)
Personal qualities integrity & self-reflection (B1)

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 3 Thursday 30th June
Integrity in research and values as a researcher
Looking at how I can communicate my research in an accessible way
TIME
1230

ACTIVITY
Introduction to social
enterprise

1300
1400

Lunch
The 2 Minute Thesis

LEAD

Jasmine
Hunter-Evans

ROOM VENUE
Main Plenary

Dining Room
Main plenary
&
group rooms

RDF MAPPING
Session aims and process:
To expand researchers views of careers beyond academia
To introduce an understanding and concept of business that aligns better with
researcher motivations
To identify transferable skills from the research environment that can be applied in a
social enterprise or business
To enable researchers to practice communicating ideas with passion and drive.
Session aims and process:
This challenges research students to creatively describe their thesis in two minutes. Pitched
to a mixed-discipline audience. The 2 minute thesis will be video recorded.
Competencies developed: (Primary)

Engagement, influence and impact: Communications methods (D2)

Engagement, influence and impact: Public engagement (D3)
Personal effectiveness: Enthusiasm (B1)

Competencies developed: (Secondary)

1700

Group Review

All facilitators

Group Rooms

Personal effectiveness: Self-confidence (B1)

Professional and career development: Continuing professional development (B3)
Session Aims & Process:
An in depth review of the days activities focussing on what the participants have learned

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 3 Thursday 30th June
Integrity in research and values as a researcher
Looking at how I can communicate my research in an accessible way
TIME

ACTIVITY

LEAD

ROOM VENUE

RDF MAPPING
about themselves, as a team and about how they will apply this learning for the rest of the
course and beyond.
Competencies Developed: (Primary)
Personal qualities: Self-reflection (B1)

Personal qualities: Self-management (B2)

Competencies Developed: (Secondary)
Working with others: Collegiality (D1)
Working with others: Mentoring (D1)

1745
1830
1900
2000

Paired feedback
2 Minute Thesis show
Dinner
2 Minute Thesis show

Buddy pairs
Paul/Jasmine
Paul/Jasmine

Main plenary
Dining room
Main plenary

Time set aside for Buddy pairs to engage in one to one feedback
The recorded videos from the earlier session will be played back in the Main Plenary room
The recorded videos from the earlier session will be played back in the Main Plenary room

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 4 Friday 1st July
Looking to my future and how my motivations, values and research skills might be used in my wider career
Looking to my shorter to medium term future and action planning for it
TIME
0730
0815

ACTIVITY
Breakfast
Facilitator Meeting

LEAD
All facilitators

ROOM VENUE
Dining room
Course Office

RDF MAPPING
Review of the previous Day. Opportunity to run through the logistics of the day and any roles
and responsibilities

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
1000

Thought for the day

The Common Good
A social enterprise case
study

Paul Spencer

Main Plenary
Main Plenary

Session aims and process:

A practical session requiring groups to mix, generate creative ideas and use the
expertise of others within the whole cohort to use their research experience and
knowledge of the wider environment to generate a financially viable organisation with a
social purpose or benefit.
Competencies developed: (Primary)
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)
Competencies developed: (Secondary)
Engagement, influence and impact: influence and leadership (D1)
Knowledge and intellectual abilities: Inquiring mind (A3)

1300

Lunch

Dining Room

SW GRADSchool Programme (Draft)

4 day programme, Buckland Hall
Tuesday 28th June Friday 1st July 2016
Building a reputation as a researcher
Day 4 Friday 1st July
Looking to my future and how my motivations, values and research skills might be used in my wider career
Looking to my shorter to medium term future and action planning for it
TIME

ACTIVITY

LEAD

ROOM VENUE

1345

Final group review &

buddy pairs

All facilitators

Main plenary
then group
rooms

1430

Directors Course
Review

1445

Course Ends (vacate

the venue by 3pm)

Paul Spencer

Main plenary

RDF MAPPING
Review of the final day. Review of the course.
Action planning.
Closing down activities in the group rooms
Administration and postcards.
Review of the whole course