BECOME A MENTOR / NEED A MENTOR?

The new Pipeline Mentoring Programme is now open to all academic staff (new starters/ ECRs/ academics/ technical staff etc.) and postgraduate students (PGR/PhD) at the University. The scheme enables potential mentees to receive support and advice from more experienced colleagues, helping them to develop their careers and to understand and overcome obstacles to career progression. The Pipeline is of particular importance to under-represented groups, and provides tailored support for the challenges of maternity leave and work-life balance.

Staff and PhD students can register to join the programme (either as Mentees or Mentors) at any time, but the mentoring programmes will run on a biannual basis (Autumn/Winter and Spring/Summer).

Programmes currently available are September 2018 – March 2019 and March 2019 – September 2019.

If you would like to join the Programme as a mentor, please register before September 2018.

For more information, and to download the registration forms (mentee and mentor), please follow the link:

http://eleanorglanvillecentre.lincoln.ac.uk/equality-unit/training-support-for-researchers/pipeline-mentoring-scheme/

The School of Life Sciences Culture Survey is now open to all members of staff across the board –  Technical / Post Docs / Academics / Admin / PGR, etc.

It is very important for everyone to share their views to ensure the results for the School really reflect how staff feel and not just a few who respond. 

All responses are anonymous, so please do feel free to answer honestly and to provide any comments at the end of the survey that you feel are relevant.

The Athena Swan committee will use the results of this survey to help build an Action Plan for change, so it is vital that we get responses from as many staff as possible.

You can find the link here:

 https://unioflincoln.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0NTvCGz0KNN0N6d

The Eleanor Glanville Centre’s next Be Inspired! Lecture: “My Brilliant Career – and other stories” Dr Kate Thomas, Birmingham City University, will take place Tuesday 3rd July

Abstract:

Kate’s current research, titled Gender(s) At Work, investigates how gender shapes experiences of employment and career in higher education. This research is aligned with Kate’s involvement in the Athena SWAN Charter, which recognises advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and success for all staff within the sector.

In this presentation, Kate introduces and reports on her research, but also traces the choices and transitions within her own ‘career’; mapping experiences and ideas which have led her to challenge and critique the taken for granted in all her research. As a poet and cartoonist, Kate also shares some of her recent experiments with the poetic and the visual as ways to further explore and communicate her research findings

• Tuesday 3^rd July
• SLB0006 Steven Langton Building
• Registration 16:45 – 17:15
• Lecture 17:15
• Wine Reception 18:15 – 19:30

Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas is Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager for Athena SWAN at Birmingham City University, UK. Kate specialises in interdisciplinary enquiry into higher education, gender and inequalities and has a particular interest in social geography and spatial research methods.Between 2007-2014, Kate was the national convenor of the UALL (Universities Association for Lifelong Learning) Women in Lifelong Learning network. She is currently Co-convenor of the SRHE Access and Widening Participation Network.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

To book your tickets click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/be-inspired-lecture-dr-kate-thomas-tickets-42193520957

The School of Life Sciences is hosting a University-wide event to celebrate Early Career Researchers (ECR) and their contribution to research at the University of Lincoln as part of ECR week.

The event will take place in JBL on Monday 18th June from 4pm. It will feature the inaugural Research101 competition, open to all ECRs (particularly ‘postdocs’) from all Colleges.  Present your research in 101 seconds with the aid of one slide or prop, or nothing at all, for a chance to win a £101 cash prize.

All ECRs, staff and students are invited to come along to provide support and mingle over food and drink with live music from a local band.

The annual Early Career Academic Research Week will take place the week commencing Monday 18^th June 2018. Information sessions, workshops and activities will be taking place across the whole week.

The agenda can be found in the ECR Summer Programme 2018 poster.

If you would like to book onto any of the sessions please visit the following links.

Please note that whilst this programme of activities has been developed with Early Career Academics in mind, it is open to all research staff across all four colleges.