Upcoming Opportunities!
- NCCPE Engage Academy 2023
Are you working to foster a culture of engagement in your organisation? Do you support others to engage with the public and communities? Are you keen to develop your agency, capabilities and networks to enhance your approach?
The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) is delighted to open applications for our sector-leading Engage Academy! Whether you call yourself a public engagement professional, or wear a different title, the Engage Academy is for you.
- Student Enterprise Week
Monday 31 October to Friday 4 November 2022.
Our Student Enterprise Week is for students in the early stages of the entrepreneurial journey.
Hear from experts, network with other entrepreneurs, and build your knowledge, skills and confidence.
Find more information on the mentors here: https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/business-support/enterprise-centre/student-enterprise-week/
- Ethno Research Online Event
Join the next Ethno Research Online Event with guest speaker Te Oti Rakena, active performer, teacher and researcher, from Aoteaora New Zealand. This is an online event on Thursday 3 November. Reserve your online spot and find more information on Eventbrite.
- Opportunity for PhD researchers to do a Nuffield Foundation POST fellowship
Applications are now open for the Nuffield Foundation POST fellowship scheme. This 13-week fellowship is an opportunity for students to gain real-world experience of the translation and communication of research findings to help inform decision making.
The scheme is open to PhD students in a natural, scientific or social science field who are undertaking, or have recently completed, their PhD study. Please note that the scheme is not open to those in the first year of their PhD. The full person specification can be found in the application guidance.
The fellowship can be carried out full time for three months, or a part time option can be arranged if required. Successful applicants will complete their fellowship during 2023 with the start date to be agreed between the applicant, POST, Nuffield Foundation and applicant’s supervisor.
More information, including how to apply, can be found here.
Applications close at midnight on 13 November 2022.
- POST’s Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme – Directed Call
The Scheme provides a unique opportunity for researchers to learn about how research feeds into practice and the challenges faced by decision-makers, as well as increasing opportunities for researchers from all disciplines to engage and connect with people in UK Parliament. Find more information here: https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/research-impact-at-the-uk-parliament/academic-fellowships/posts-parliamentary-academic-fellowship-scheme/
- JSPS London Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (Short Term)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) is the leading research funding agency in Japan, established by the Japanese Government for the purpose of contributing to the advancement of science. Our Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (Short Term) provides the opportunity for short-term visits for UK, European, North American and Canadian researchers ordinarily based in the UK or Ireland to do cooperative research with leading research groups at Japanese Universities and Institutions.
Please visit the JSPS London website here for further information:
https://www.jsps.org/latest_calls/2022/09/fy2023-jsps-london-call-for-the-short-term-prepostdoctoral-fellowships-for-research-in-japan-first-of-two-calls-for-fy2023.html
- Peatland Training: Facilitating workshops with local communities
Learn how to use workshops to engage local communities in research. The session starts by considering how you can channel your natural emotional intelligence as a facilitator to manage power dynamics, using a case study of a workshop with peatland communities in the UK that went wrong. It then considers techniques to open up, analyse and decide in online and face-to-face workshops. The session concludes with case studies from Indonesia and Canada. This includes the relationship building process in the Canadian Forest Management Wetland Stewardship Initiative, and experience navigating conservation conflicts with fishing communities in Indonesia.
