Category: Innovative Ideas
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Career Development – Learning Widely
By Dr Rachel Chin, Researcher Development Project Officer for the Flourish programme. In the research community we are used to the concept of specialisms and to the idea of holding expertise in a single narrowly defined subject area. However, this is an approach that has always troubled me. In fact, I would like to argue…
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Reflecting on the ARCadia Festival: Researchers’ Perspectives
By Ken Skeldon, University Research Engagement Manager, with Zara Gladman Public and Community Engagement Advisor (and ARCadia Festival Manager) and Casi Dylan, Advanced Research Centre Events and Engagement Manager. Why ARCadia?The University of Glasgow’s ARCadia Festival held over the last two weeks of September marked a milestone in the journey of our new Advanced Research…
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Making Space for Engagement – Glasgow’s new Advanced Research Centre
Dr Ken Skeldon is Research Engagement Manager at the University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre, or ARC for short was officially opened on 8 June and will soon be fully operational, providing 16,000 square metres of new research infrastructure over 5 floors and a new home for over 500 researchers. Interdisciplinarity…
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Creating a user-focused website: organisation, collaboration and creativity
By Charlie Rex, Web Communications Officer. Charlie has recently redesigned the Researcher Development web pages to better serve our PGRs, research staff and supervisors, and we are delighted to re-launch them this May! I am proud to say that one of my defining personality traits is that I am organised. My love of to-do lists,…
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Forging collegial spaces for collaboration
By Dr Kay Guccione and Dr Sam Oakley, Researcher Development Team The Glasgow Crucible is an annual career development programme for emerging research leaders at the University of Glasgow. Named for the vessel involved in the steel making process, this multi-day intensive event supports 30 senior research staff and new academic staff to acquire the…
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Teaching research skills – an epic adventure
This is a guest post by Daisy Abbott, a researcher in game-based learning and teacher of postgraduates at the School of Simulation and Visualisation at The Glasgow School of Art. Her current research focusses on game-based learning, in particular, serious games in a Higher Education context. Daisy’s blog can be found here. My recent work…
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PGRs are doing it for themselves: Peer2Peer training in the College of Social Sciences
By Dickon Copsey. Employability Officer within the College of Social Sciences where his role includes the coordination of the College Employability Programme. As Employability Officer in the College of Social Sciences, I have one of the best jobs in the University. My job is to find creative ways to support the prof dev of our…
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