The University has this week become a signatory of the updated Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers. The revised Concordat is the result of an independent review into the effectiveness of the previous agreement and delineates the standards that researchers should expect from their institution and vice versa. The document is organised into …
Activity resulting from our inaugural round of community funding is now well underway, and we wanted to keep you abreast of what has happened so far. The four research communities were launched collectively on the 17th September last year, swiftly followed by individual launches for Health Innovation and Wellbeing (HIW), Diversity and Inclusion (DI), Sustainable …
In January, UKRI surprised the research community with an announcement that it would be dropping the Pathways to Impact attachment and the Impact Summary, which became mandatory for all Research Council proposals back in 2009. The line is that these changes have been pushed through by the UK government to reduce bureaucracy in research proposals. …
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UPDATED AUGUST 2022 TO INCLUDE NEW PUBLISHER DEALS The University has a limited Article Processing Charge (APC) Application Fund to pay Open Access costs for journal articles. All applications are subject to the approval of the College Research Director and budget constraints, as the fund is very limited. The Institutional APC Fund’s primary aim is to …
In 2016, University of Westminster were given the Human Resources Excellence in Research Award in recognition of our vigorous and transparent implementation of a tailored strategy for improving the career development and management of researchers within the university in line with the previous Researcher Development Concordat. We are now preparing to commit to the recently …
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The third installment of our FUNDamentals series is out now! These 2 page briefs will provide all the foundations you need to get acquainted with funder priorities, tips, keys schemes, and other useful insights. Wellcome is a major funder for health research, providing awards to researchers in science, humanities, and social science to better understand …
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The university is keen to consider eligible applications from outstanding international researchers not currently working in the United Kingdom, to bring their research experience to the UK and to advance our research goals through a professorship with the university. The University of Westminster has a proud tradition of global collaboration. We ranked 28th in the …
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Getting research done and done well is always challenging and developing your research career is a continual process. In this connection, the Research Office has organised a series of workshops by which you can discover new approaches that will support you in the development of your research practice. The Autumn programme is below, and also …
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Coming off the back of our funding guidance series “FUNDamentals”, we are hosting our first FUNDamental Café. The British Academy will be presentating alongside University of Westminster academics and members of the Research Office to share knowledge and experiene to improve our responses to British Academy funding schemes. To register for this event head over to …
Several of our team attended the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) 2019 conference in Belfast. I attended the “Creativity as Methodology” workshop which got me thinking about tools that I use that could foster creative thinking in our Research Development Team. I wanted to empower our team to improve the quality and quantity …
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