10.00am - 4.00pm, AIM Offices, London, WC1B 5DN

This workshop is intended for experienced academics with some management responsibility for the development of early career academics, especially in their role as researchers. Its purpose is to explore how early career researchers may be supported in developing their capacity to write high quality research proposals and academic publications.

Inputs will offer ideas for supporting early career researchers with developing a convincing argument in a first research proposal, and in writing for publication. Participants will be invited to exchange in small groups on the management of relevant development support for early career researchers in their institution, and to consider how to improve it. The potential of an emerging national ‘matrix of support’ will be highlighted that participants may wish to access for meeting related development needs. This support includes seminars, training workshops, e-learning materials and networking opportunities offered by AIM, other ESRC investments, and learned societies. Strategies for improvement will be considered, including the possibility of harnessing the matrix of support to meet priority development needs in participants’ institutions.

Deadline for applications for this workshop is 30th September 2008. Full Call Information.

The workshop is led by Professor Paul Edwards, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, and Professor Mike Wallace, AIM Associate Director for Capacity Building. Mike Wallace, AIM Associate Director for Capacity Building, Professor of Public Management, Cardiff Business School.