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ECR Talk March 2017Professor Berthold Schoene
Head of Research and Knowledge ExchangeFaculty of Arts and Humanities
The Omnitasking Academic
Academic Careers
5-year planning & pre-REF
3 Talks in 1
Teaching Publishing Conference attendance and organisation Public engagement (impact generation) Awareness of HE agendas, developments
and debates REF Bidding Networking
The Omnitasking Academic
All-in-one approach: have a plan, be strategic & stay focused (but flexible)
Research-informed teaching Quality and utility: “end users” and
stakeholders: who’s interested in your work? who might (will!) benefit from it? What are the best ways of involving the world in your research?
Relevance & topicality: stay on the pulse Collaboration, community & collegiality Time-management
OMNITASKING
Be aware of subject-specific quality indicators
Be aware of overlap and duplication of material
Familiarise yourself with current REF guidelines (e.g. ECR status)
The Conversation
PUBLISHING
Present work in progress, strategically: initiate a dialogue about your research questions/problems rather than reporting on results
Identify external mentors(= future referees)
CONFERENCING
Public engagement as the pathway to impact
What is ‘impact’? How is it defined? How it is captured/measured?
What makes an ‘impact case study’? Quality and utility Co-production/co-creation/co-curation of
research Who is your research for? What public engagement activities already
exist in your department/faculty/institution?
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (IMPACT)
Times Higher Sign up to blogs and newsletters, both
internal and external (e.g. ManMetNews; MMU RKE Blog; your Institute or Research Centre mailing list)
Research Professional’s 8am Playbook Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Jobs.ac.uk WonkHE
Higher Education Politics
REF 2014
http://results.ref.ac.uk/
REF 2021
Bidding
Be in the knowWhat’s going on?
The University’s new Strategic FrameworkPlace ++ Ambition ++ Community ++ Partnership ++ Sustainability
The University’s new RKE strategyWe are a great modern university, in a great global city, here to make an impact on Manchester, our nation and beyond, with a driving ambition to discover and disseminate knowledge, and make higher education accessible and beneficial to all those with the passion and ability to succeed.We work closely with our city, with business, the community and our academic peers – locally, nationally and internationally - to be inventive and creative, generate great opportunities, and enable our students, colleagues and everyone whose lives we touch to make an impact.
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OVERALL NUMBER ONE AIMTo become the best modern university in the country within the next five years
PRIORITIES High-Quality Student Experience ++ World-Class
Research, Practice & Professionalism ++ Internationalisation ++ Business-Facing, Progressive & Market-Focused Approach
CHALLENGES Austerity ++ Brexit ++ Immigration Policy ++ Populism
OfS
UKRI
REF
TEF
Higher Education Reforms
The RKE Blog https://mmuresearchblog.wordpress.com/tag/rcuk/Other relevant blogs and mailing lists (ManMetLife/funding bodies/THE/Research Professional etc)Twitter
Guidance for the Appointment of Professors and Readershttp://www2.mmu.ac.uk/humanresources/a-z/guidance-procedures-handbooks/guidance-for-the-appointment-of-professors-and-readers
Let it be known & DEVELOP a PROFILEWhat are your ambitions?Where do you see yourself in five years’ time? How will you get there?Everyone has promise and potential; provide evidence of actual achievements & demonstrable capacity. If you want to be a reader/professor, start acting like one.Make use of training opportunities & staff development.
Your colleagues (at Manchester Met and elsewhere), your mentor, your line manager, your Head of Department, your RC Head, your Head of RKE, your Dean …
Plan your career Be opportunistic (in a good way!)
Volunteer (but think before saying yes)
Step into the breach
Invite delegation
Contribute ideas
Be visible (which involves ‘invisible work’)
Synchronize What’s your thing? What’s the University’s thing?
The University needs people to implement its strategies and fulfil its many ambitions.
Take the initiative, be innovative & make things happen (in response).
Make a differenceResearch ++ Teaching ++ Enterprise
Teaching (publications; inter/national profile) Research & Enterprise (networking,
impact/media; policy/business; income) Academic citizenship/Esteem: a representative &
an ambassador – serving your community/discipline/your institution (increasingly as a leader)
PGR supervision
Lead What is your leadership style? Develop a leadership strategy: ‘tough’
decisions, or just (‘just’) decisions A partner – a mentor: share, listen,
collaborate, propose, consult, take others with you.
What makes you stand out? What do you want to be known for? What will be your legacy?
5-year PlanAnnual research review process now in its fourth year in HLSS
Areas under reviewResearch & Knowledge Exchange Projects & ActivitiesPlanned OutputsFunding & Bidding ActivityCollaboration, Networks & External Engagement (incl. International)Research-Informed Teaching, incl. PhD supervisionEsteem & LeadershipSymplectic & Ethics
A Multi-Purpose Review Career development: designed to help you frame your
existing research, knowledge exchange and wider scholarly activity with a view to planning and achieving high-quality research outputs for REF2021, and/or generating impact of internationally excellent reach and significance.
Mentoring
On-file resource for Faculty research managers and RKE leaders (from across the University)
Categorisation and departmental workloading
Annual ReassessmentThe five-year research plans are ‘live’ documents subject to annual revision and review. Staff undergo an annual review process in term 1 of every year, with all revised plans becoming due for resubmission by 15 January each year.
This annual review process is followed by a full reassessment of everybody’s researcher status, to be completed by the end of term 2.
STRATEGY