Strategies for Career Success: Networking, Publishing and Funding
- Top 10 career building tips (Adam Tickell, Vice Chancellor, University of Sussex, UK)
- Applying for research funding: what support is available? (Anett Kiss, Research Development Officer, University of Sussex, UK )
- Engaging with the UK research funding landscape: Harnessing postgraduate and early career opportunities (Professor Gordon Harold, Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Sussex, UK )
- Plenary Speaker (Kelly Shephard, Head of Knowledge, Impact and Policy, Institute of Development Studies, UK
) - Why (and how to) engage with policy? (Charlotte Humma, Research Communications Manager, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, UK )
- Networks, discoverability and the politics of being discovered (Michael Taster, University of Sheffield, UK)
- Publish without perishing: strategies for success in scholarly communication (Alasdair Rae, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK )
Top 10 career building tips
Adam Tickell, Vice Chancellor, University of Sussex, UK
Adam Tickell is the University of Sussex’s eighth Vice Chancellor. He has worked in leadership positions at the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol and at Royal Holloway, University of London.
A highly regarded economic geographer, Professor Tickell’s work in developing new political economic geography is amongst the most influential of his generation. His work has explored finance, English local governance and the politics of ideas.
Professor Tickell is Chair of the Open Access Coordination Group at Universities UK. The Group provide independent advice to the Government on Open Access to research. Adam is a strong advocate for freedom of speech and has met with senior politicians from across the political divide in Westminster on a number of issues on behalf of the higher education sector.
Since his arrival at Sussex he has championed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Sussex and created the new role of Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Equality and Diversity shortly after he joined the University in 2016.
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Applying for research funding: what support is available?
Anett Kiss, Research Development Officer, University of Sussex, UK
Anett Kiss is a Research Development Officer at the University of Sussex and her role focuses on supporting academic researchers in applying for external research funding by providing advice, training and administrative support for grant and fellowship applications.
She is a biologist by training and had various European research funding at PhD and post-doctoral level before moving into research administration. She is a former Marie Curie fellow and an active member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association, specifically contributing to the Grants and Awards Working Group and the UK Regional Chapter.
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Engaging with the UK research funding landscape: Harnessing postgraduate and early career opportunities
Professor Gordon Harold, Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Sussex, UK
Professor Gordon Harold holds the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Chair and is Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex. He is also the inaugural Director of the Rudd Centre for Adoption Research and Practice. He received his PhD from Cardiff University in 1998, was appointed Lecturer in Psychology the same year and Professor of Psychology in 2008. He has held appointments as the Alexander McMillan Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Professor of Quantitative Behaviour Genetics at the University of Leicester. He is an Associate Member of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, and at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University. His primary research interests focus on examining the impact of early rearing adversities (e.g. inter-parental conflict, negative parenting, parent mental health) on child and adolescent mental health (e.g. depression, anxiety, conduct problems), the interplay between genetic factors, pre-natal, post-natal rearing experiences and children’s mental health, and translating research-led recommendations to practice and policy contexts. He is a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), is a member of the Evidence Panel of the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), and is Head of Strategic Policy and Treasurer of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH). He is also a consultant and advisor to several government departments in the UK and internationally.
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Plenary Speaker
Kelly Shephard, Head of Knowledge, Impact and Policy, Institute of Development Studies, UK
Kelly Shephard is a story teller. She is interested in how information is shaped and shared to inform development policy and discourse. The former Managing Editor of BBC World Service’s Future Media department, in 2011 Kelly transferred her journalistic experience to the world of international development as she wanted to be as much involved in the process as the product. Her skills, which were shaped in a multimedia environment, enable her to see complex material and present it in compelling and relevant ways. In her current role at IDS she manages a multidisciplinary team who aim to address development knowledge imbalances and inequalities and to improve the use of evidence in effective decision-making.
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Why (and how to) engage with policy?
Charlotte Humma, Research Communications Manager, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, UK
As Research Communications Manager, I am responsible for strategy development and ensuring the delivery of communications, engagement and impact objectives for research within the School of Business, Management and Economics. This includes leading communications and engagement activities for the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) – a partnership between the University of Sussex and Chatham House that works on trade policy. I am also Project and Policy Engagement Lead of the ESRC IAA funded Policy@Sussex initiative that works to connect social science research to policy audience. My work is key to generating research impact, knowledge exchange and improving engagement with stakeholders – notably, policymakers – and the media, as well as building the external profile of the School’s research. I am a communications professional with over fifteen years’ experience in international development organisations and higher education institutions.
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Networks, discoverability and the politics of being discovered
Michael Taster, University of Sheffield, UK
Michael Taster is a current PhD research student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. His current research project is sponsored by the RSA and is entitled, “The Creation and Reproduction of Policy Relevant Spatial Knowledge and New Publishing Models, A Case Study of Regional Studies.” The project seeks to investigate how developments in the scholarly communication system are affecting spatial studies. He has previously been awarded an MA in Town and Regional Planning from the University of Sheffield and holds an BA and MSt in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford.
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Publish without perishing: strategies for success in scholarly communication
Alasdair Rae, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK
Alasdair Rae is a Professorial Fellow in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. He is an urban and regional analyst focusing on spatial data, GIS, neighbourhoods, housing markets, transport, commuting, quantitative data analysis, internet search data and geovisualization. Alasdair is a founding Editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Regional Studies, Regional Science, now one of the leading open access publications in the social sciences. He led the project to digitise the Department’s JR James Archive, an urban image collection which has now been viewed more than 6 million times. He has published widely in the academic and policy literature in addition to contributions to national and international media. His research has been funded by a wide variety of organisations, including Rightmove plc, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Bank of England.
Alasdair has a PhD in urban and regional policy from the University of Liverpool (2007), an MA from The Ohio State University (2003), and a BA (Hons) from the University of Strathclyde (2001).
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