Salford is holding its inaugural Festival of Research this year between 25th June and 20th July 2018 across the campus.
The aim of the Festival is to showcase and celebrate Salford’s diverse research and its impact to a wider audience and will encourage both researchers and the general public to become involved.
In the week of 2nd-6th July there will be a concentration of physical events and conferences taking place, including the Salford Postgraduate Annual Researcher Conference (SPARC), which is a two-day PGR-focused showcase event.
Running alongside the Festival will be ‘Storytelling at Salford’: this is a larger project which forms part of the research training strategy and which is also linked to the University’s new research strategy. It involves the Salford Research community (PGRs, Academics and Leaders) recording short videos about what they do at Salford. The first 20 videos will be showcased as part of the festival and during the festival we will encourage more to participate and create videos themselves.
Targeted Impact Events
As part of the Festival we will be running a number of specifically impact-related events to help inspire our researchers to think more closely about the impact of their research and how they can best improve its significance and reach in the future.
Highlights include:
Wednesday, 27 June 2018: Fast Track Impact case study writing workshop with Prof Mark Reed
Mark will focus specifically on the REF and what makes a good impact case study, how to improve your writing around impact, as well as evidence collection tips. This workshop will also include detailed external peer review of 4 draft impact case studies, with recommendations of how these can be enhanced and improved.
To book: https://myadvantage.salford.ac.uk/students/events/Detail/597642/staff-development-fast-track-t
Thursday, 28 June 2018: Developing Your Narrative Sessions with Chris Simms, Royal Literary Fund
Chris is holding individual 40-minute mentoring sessions for researchers looking to develop their narrative and storywriting skills, whether it be for the purpose of formulating impact case studies, writing funding bids, making applications for research festivals or similar.
All enquiries: research-impact@salford.ac.uk
Tuesday, 3 July 2018: Impact Case Study Writing Retreat (MCUK)
Space will be made available to each School to spend dedicated time working on existing or potential impact case study drafts. Impact Coordinators will be on hand to provide advice and guidance and researchers will be able to access resources from the REF intranet site and use the Figshare data repository to gather impact evidence.
To book:
AM: https://myadvantage.salford.ac.uk/students/events/Detail/604998/festival-of-research-impact-ca
PM: https://myadvantage.salford.ac.uk/students/events/Detail/605001/festival-of-research-impact-ca
Wednesday, 11 July 2018: Developing Your Narrative Sessions with Chris Simms, Royal Literary Fund
Chris is holding individual 40-minute mentoring sessions for researchers looking to develop their narrative and storywriting skills, whether it be for the purpose of formulating impact case studies, writing funding bids, making applications for research festivals or similar.
All enquiries: research-impact@salford.ac.uk
Why not take this opportunity to check out the Festival of Research website to find events of interest to you: https://www.salford.ac.uk/researchfest
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