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Two AIM Training Trainers Workshops for Managers of Research Training, Doctoral Supervision, and Early Career Academics; Development as Researchers

AIM is pleased to announce two new workshops, if you are interested in these workshops please register your interest with the Dean or Director or Research at your institution, or alternatively contact with Agnieszka Witaszczyk at the AIM office.

1. Training early career researchers in writing research proposals and publications - 10.00am - 4.00pm Friday 28th November 2008, London (Venue TBC)  (Call Information)                   

2. AIM ‘Training Trainers’ Workshop: What’s Happening to Data? Harnessing the Potential of Datasets for Management Research - Tuesday 10th February 2009, Edinburgh  and Wednesday 11th February 2009, London (Call Information)

Workshop 1 is designed for experienced academics with some responsibility for managing postgraduate research training programmes and doctoral research programmes. Workshop 2 is designed for experienced academics with some responsibility for developing early-career academics as researchers.

Please circulate the two attached calls plus application forms to your senior academic colleagues who may be interested in attending, or whom you may wish to nominate.

We hope to be able to accommodate up to two participants from your institution to attend each workshop. (The same colleagues may attend more than one of these workshops.) ESRC funding will meet most of the costs of provision. To help cover the remainder, AIM will levy a nominal charge of £40 per person. (Participants’ institutions will be expected to meet the costs of their travel to and from the venue.) The capacity of each workshop is 25 places, which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Therefore early application is advised.

There is a separate call plus application form for each workshop, for distribution to different colleagues as appropriate. Each application form should be completed (by yourself or your nominees) and sent as an email attachment to Agnieszka Witaszczyk, AIM Events Officer (agnieszka.witaszczyk@wbs.ac.uk). If you have any queries, please contact Agnieszka (telephone on 0870 734 3000).

The venue for the first workshop is the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (RDI) Regional Training Centre at City University, London. The workshops are part of AIM’s new research training project funded by the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (RDI): ‘Strategic Expansion of Management Research Capacity: Managing the Training of Researchers as Trainers’.

Further details of the two workshops are as follows.

1. Training Early Career Researchers in Writing Research Proposals and Publications

 10.00am - 4.00pm Friday 28th November 2008, London (Venue TBC)               Closing Date for Applications - 30th September 2008

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.

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

2. AIM ‘Training Trainers’ Workshop: What’s Happening to Data? Harnessing the Potential of Datasets for Management Research

Please not that this one-day workshop is being offered both in Edinburgh and London. Please see full call information below for dates and application information.
Closing Date for Applications - 28th November 2008.

AIM is inviting up to five academics from each business and management school to participate in this new professional development opportunity for the UK management research community.

The purpose of the workshop is to update academics in their researcher and supervisory roles about new developments in the availability of datasets for management research. The workshop will have a dual focus: on raising awareness about the expanding array of datasets with potential use in management research, and on exploring the implications for research student supervision and postgraduate research methods teaching.

The one-day workshop is being offered in two regional locations:

•    Moray House, Edinburgh University - Tuesday 10th February 2009

•    City University, London - Wednesday 11th February 2009

The workshop is led by Professor Peter Elias from the Warwick Institute for Employment Research, who since 2004 has been Strategic Adviser (Data Resources) to the ESRC.


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