Taken from Issue 1: Fast Track Impact The two most common reasons why stakeholders may not be interested in your research are that: Your research is too narrow, niche or specific to be of significant interest; or Your research does…
Being Human Festival – 2017 festival call for participation
Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. Held in November, the festival brings together universities, Independent Research Organisations (IRO) and community and commercial partners to stage activities that make leading research in the humanities accessible to…
5 Top Tips… for Motivation
1. Remember why you started Was it career progression? To prove you could do it – or to make your mum proud? Whatever it was, use this as fuel to power you through. 2. Give yourself a break No one…
MRC/AHRC GCRF Global Public Health; Partnership Awards pre-call announcement
The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) offers a unique opportunity for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) to co-design a global public health initiative. The forthcoming call seeks to bring together expertise in…
Professor Sir Mark Walport named as first chief executive of UKRI
The Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Jo Johnson, has announced that Professor Sir Mark Walport will be the Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The full Government announcement is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/business-secretary-announces-industrial-strategy-investment-in-science-research-and-innovation UKRI will,…
What ideas do you believe in?
In 1956 Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley, the Astronomer Royal, referred to the possibility of space travel as ‘utter blige’, effectively dismissing the potential and refusing to believe in the idea. Fortunately others didn’t share his feelings and had…