The University of Westminster Research and Knowledge Exchange Office works across the institution to support the development and implementation of the University’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategy. We support research and academic staff to grow their research careers through developing high quality projects and collaborations that link to the external funding environment, generate impact and …
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Public engagement in research is an important aspect of the contemporary academic landscape, recognising the invaluable insights that communities and groups contribute. In this vein, as part of a larger project aimed at understanding how researchers at the University of Westminster involve the public in their research, the Health Innovation and Wellbeing Community organised an …
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The University is running CEDARS from 11th April to 26th May 2023. This is your opportunity to influence research culture and researcher development at Westminster. What is CEDARS? Designed in collaboration between Vitae, researchers, and researcher developers across the HE sector in the UK, CEDARS seeks to gather the thoughts and experiences of researchers around …
Read more “2023 Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey (CEDARS) is now live!”
The University’s new Research Data Management (RDM) Policy (2022) sets out a series of key expectations to aid you in meeting best practice in the management and preservation of research data. One key expectation is that research data selected for preservation beyond the lifetime of a project are deposited in an appropriate research data repository …
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Hello, I’m Abel Tesfai. I work in the Research Environment and Scholarly Communications team within the R&KE Office as the university’s Research Information Support Officer. With all the conversation ongoing around REF data, I wanted to take the opportunity to explain how we handle and manage research data, why we do so, and what your …
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Malgorzata Czerwiec, European Advisor from the UK Research Office (UKRO) led a virtual visit for the University of Westminster on 2nd March 2022. The UK Research Office, a European Office of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aims to maximise UK engagement with EU funding schemes. Its European Advisors keep track of the latest developments in …
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ORCID link in the VRE ORCID is a unique research identifier belonging to you which distinguishes you from every other researcher. It allows you to store together all your research outputs within your account and share them between platforms. The VRE is able to push data to, and receive data from, your central ORCID account. …
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Research funding bodies, institutions, and publishers are increasingly encouraging or mandating that the research data underpinning your research outputs are also published and made available for validation and re-use by others. Applying a licence to your research data enables you to establish copyright and set out how and in what circumstances your research data can …
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Embedding ethics and data management best practice in your day to day research and knowledge exchange activities is key. Support with this and more comes from the Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Team and beyond. We hope that the below resources are a useful starting point for conversations and perhaps introduce some new good habits that you …
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The below workshops, run by a combination of University of Westminster colleagues and external facilitators, aim to support colleagues at any stage of their career and at any stage of the research life-cycle. Please find more information and book places at workshops via the below links as early as possible to avoid disappointment and if …
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