Looking to enhance your online teaching – or for more teaching opportunities?

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Shirley Cooper

The LDC Development Team have been working with the Brilliant club to provide opportunities and training for researches to work in local schools teaching topics around their own research. Currently this teaching is all online. The following tips are based on their experiences, but may also be of interest to those involved in undergraduate teaching:

Top tips for online delivery

If you would like to know more of The Brilliant club, please come to their introductory webinar for PGR researchers at Liverpool on 20th April at 2pm. (Details to come). The benefits of joining the Scholars programme include:

Giving support local pupils from under-represented backgrounds to access university. Each Scholars Programme placement begins with tutors accompanying their pupils on a university trip, followed by six further tutorials in their school. At the end of the programme pupils submit an assignment that is marked by their tutor.
Get expert training and real experience to develop your teaching and other transferable skills. The training programme consists of two full-days including sessions on tutorial pedagogy, assessment and designing a course handbook.
Earn £500 per placement plus an additional £100 for designing a new course, and travel expenses
Disseminate your research to small groups of school pupils
Join a nationwide community of like-minded researchers making a huge impact on university access

Alternatively, are you a PhD researcher who could teach Maths or English at GCSE level and who would be interested in earning £500 for tutoring online? The Brilliant club have an opportunity for online tutoring in Maths or English at GCSE level. You will need to apply by 12^th Feb
The Brilliant Tutoring Programme is being rolled out across schools in England in January and The Brilliant Club are looking for tutors to start work this Summer (2021). This is an opportunity for researchers to gain valuable teaching experience, support disadvantaged pupils to catch up on learning missed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and earn money.

The Brilliant Tutoring Programme –Information for Tutors

Interested researchers will need to:

– Apply online here, no later than 12th February
– Attend an online Assessment Centre

They will then:

– Complete online training
– Teach a pre-designed course to GSCE pupils (15 hours teaching to two groups/ 30 hours in total per placement)

Researchers can read more here, or email apply@thebrilliantclub.orgwith any questions

Your Voice – PGR Conference and Faculty poster days

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Shirley Cooper

The LDC is delighted to be hosting the first ‘Your Voice – PGR Conference’ which will take place on 1-2 April in the University’s South Campus Teaching Hub.

Conference website — Programme — Abstracts — Registration

The Conference includes contributions from postgraduate researchers from across the University, who will introduce a wide variety of topics of interest to the research community. The topics include:

The PhD journey; the challenges encountered by the presenters and the solutions they found
Specific opportunities undertaken during the PhD, including public engagement, fieldwork, public engagement and teaching
Subject related talks where presenters will summarise their specific research projects. Their topics span all faculties of the University, from Cell migration to Artificial Intelligence, from Chinese women’s representation in Hollywood cinema to Dementia care and from Lasers to the needs for Utopias.

The Conference also includes two discussion-focussed sessions at the end of each day. The first explores the University’s approach to climate change and sustainability and the second will focus on teaching experiences as a demonstrator and the skills required to teach well.

Come and get to know about the opportunities and challenges your peers have experienced. Their stories might open doors to new opportunities!

This Conference offers a great opportunity to practice your ‘conference skills’, develop your networking skills, ask questions, or simply see how Conferences work! It is a rare opportunity to meet and learn about research and research practice beyond your Faculty. Discover how much have you got in common and how research practice can vary across disciplines.

LDC Team will be there to support all our speakers and attendees! Refreshments and lunch throughout the day will be available. For further information for Your Voice PGR conference, please click here.

Alongside the 2-day conference, the Liverpool Doctoral College Development Team will be offering the following complementary workshops:

31 March 09.15-16.30 Practical thinking for researchers by Company of Mind

02 April 09.15-12.30 Shining at interview

02 April 13.30-14.30 Webinar: Developing effective CVs and applications

During 30 and 31 March, all three Faculties are organising PGR Poster Days. It’s yet another opportunity to find out more about research projects across the University – in a concise way! Get to know your peers and engage in conversation about their research!

Health and Life Sciences Poster Day– 30 March

10:00 – 16:30 in The Crypt, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

The HLS Poster day is open to all who are interested in the research taking place within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. The event will consist of both poster sessions and teaser talks, where participants have to summarise their research in just 90 secs.

See here for further details, including a timetable for the day.

Humanities and Social Sciences and Science and Engineering Poster Day – 31 March

10:30 – 15:30 in the Liverpool Guild of Students, Mountford Hall

Come and see posters from across both the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Science and Engineering faculties in the University. Join us on the day to see a diverse set of research.

Postgraduate Researcher Week 11-15 March 2019

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Shirley Cooper

Website: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/intranet/doctoral-college/researcher-week/
Twitter: #ldcpgrweek

Postgraduate Researcher Week offers an ideal opportunity to meet up and network with other research students from across campus and includes a variety of training and development workshops for postgraduate researchers.　

See the Doctoral College Intranet for a full timetable and links to further event details and registration

This March the sessions include:

Welcome sessions from the Doctoral College and the Guild of Students.
A talk on ‘Wellbeing and mental health for researchers’ and ‘Becoming a mindful researcher’
A new PGR ‘Career Ready’ Bootcamp and shorter career-focussed sessions to prepare yourself for the next stage after the PhD
Talks to help you manage and publish your research and advice on ‘Developing Evidence Reviews’
A webinar and workshop introducing ‘The Conversation’
Workshops on Poster Presentations and ‘Taking Ownership of your PhD’
Repeated sessions of ‘Viva Survivor’ and ‘Planning your final Year’
A talk on ‘Achieving Nirvana on stage: How to deliver a great talk’

The week closes with a Research Café networking event.

How will you communicate your research and achieve impact?

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Shirley Cooper

Have you considered how to achieve impact with your research? Although you can gain academic recognition through publications and conference presentations, as a researcher, you are also expected to achieve wider impact with your research though working across disciplines, working with non-academic partners or through public communication and engagement. Impact, and in particular public engagement, is an expectation of the research councils and other funding bodies .

Engaging in these impact activities is also highly motivating and will help you develop wider skills, such as project planning, communication, working with different groups and can benefit both your research and your long-term career. The LDC Development Public Engagement theme offers more information on how, as a post-graduate researcher, you can gain involvement in public engagement.

The workshop ‘Making Meaningful Impact during your PhD‘, 21st Feb, 10 – 3pm, part of the LDC Development Programme, will help you to design and plan an achievable project for making meaningful impact with your research as a postgraduate researcher. Using Design Thinking processes, you will identify the needs of the key beneficiaries of your research, generate innovative ideas for making impact, build a prototype of your project and test your ideas via a supportive peer review with fellow PGRs.

You can gain further experience of public communication through online publishing to University news articles or sources such as ‘The Conversation’. The LDC Development online course, ‘Communicating research online: writing for a wider audience‘ , 11th Feb – 8th April, will help you prepare a suitable article in short steps each week, through regular practice, advice and supportive feedback. The course also includes an opportunity to join a peer review.

We also be offering two further webinars on related subjects:

12th March 12:30 – 13:30 Webinar on ‘The conversation’ delivered by Catrin Owen from SoTA and
20th March 12:30 – 13:30 Webinar: Using Twitter for Academic Purposes delivered by Rachel Heah from SLSJ.

Further details will be announced shortly.

The LDC programme includes further workshops and webinar to help you develop your writing and presenting skills, as well as to prepare for conferences. For more details see our programme timetable.

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Category Archives: Impact & Public Engagement

Looking to enhance your online teaching – or for more teaching opportunities?

Your Voice – PGR Conference and Faculty poster days

Postgraduate Researcher Week 11-15 March 2019

How will you communicate your research and achieve impact?