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Networks

Networks. Jane Moody, HRC Director Intersections : Interdisciplinary Workshops for PhD students , Humanities Research Centre. Networks: local, regional, national and international. Why participate in—or establish-- a network?

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  1. Networks Jane Moody, HRC Director Intersections: Interdisciplinary Workshops for PhD students, Humanities Research Centre

  2. Networks: local, regional, national and international Why participate in—or establish-- a network? To pool ideas around a common theme, usually over a period of time, to build up knowledge and expertise. Some networks are formed within existing institutional collaborations, others are created for a specific project

  3. Networks as a preliminary step • Most large grants are given to people who already have some kind of established collaboration, and a network is a very good way to lay down the foundations for collaboration in the future. • Networks help you to build up your profile, and for other people to find out about your work. They create opportunities—to speak at another institution; to edit a special issue of a journal—to travel to interesting places!

  4. Who funds networks? • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) • British Academy (often with ‘strategic partners’ e.g. South East Asia, Middle East, Africa) • Leverhulme Trust • European Union (usually involves multiple partners)

  5. British Academy Network Opportunities • Commonwealth countries:The British Academy/Association of Commonwealth Universities Joint Projects scheme: grants for joint projects between British and Commonwealth scholars. Note: the British Academy currently has a formal agreement with Australia, but with no other Commonwealth country. • Africa: International Partnerships scheme to support the development of ongoing links between UK and African research centres or institutions. • Latin America/Caribbean: UK-Latin America and the Caribbean Link Programme scheme to support the development of links between the UK and Latin America and/or the Caribbean. • South East Asia:The ASEASUK Research Committee on South East Asian Studies: Grants for research on South East Asia are available from this Academy-sponsored committee. • Middle East : International Partnerships scheme developed to promote links between the UK and the Middle East. • South Asia : International Partnerships scheme to develop academic and research links between the UK and South Asia.

  6. AHRC Research Networks • Research Networking Scheme • Supports forums for the discussion and exchange of ideas on a specified thematic area, issue or problem. Funds to support a short-term series of workshops, seminars, networking activities or other events.  The aim of these activities is to stimulate new debate across boundaries, for example, disciplinary, conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and/or international. • Costs up to £30,000 for a period of up to two years may be submitted.  Find out more about collaborative working with a range of partners, including academic institutions, commercial organisations and museums, libraries and archives on our partnership working page.

  7. White Rose Consortium (a local university network) • White Rose Consortium: York, Leeds and Sheffield Universities. Purpose of this network is to raise the research profile of both the individual institutions (collaboration allows you to scale up) and the collective power of three northern universities, with hope of attracting various kinds of funding (e.g. from regional development agencies as well as from research councils).

  8. White Rose Project: ‘The Genealogy of Modern Civic Identity’ • 3 PhD projects, six supervisors, 2 in each institution • Great way to get funding for PhD students; also fun for students to be part of a larger project. • Annual symposia, students regularly in touch with each other. • Various forms of ‘outreach’ activity (exhibitions, creation of new groupings e.g. Local History Network)

  9. Marie Curie Research Training Network: Sound to Sense • A collaboration between phoneticians, psycholinguists, computer scientists and others • Partners: York, Cambridge, Sheffield, Bristol plus universities, France, Norway, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic and others. • Aim of the project is to strengthen European research capacity in our knowledge of fine phonetic detail, its production and perception.

  10. Worldwide University Network: a partnership of 15 research universities Role: to promote research and teaching collaborations beyond the scope of an individual university. A

  11. Rationale for WUN network • Mission is to be one of the leading international Higher Education networks, collaborating to accelerate the creation of knowledge. • Creates new, multilateral opportunities for international collaboration in research and graduate education. It is a flexible, dynamic organisation that uses the combined resources and intellectual power of its membership to achieve collective international objectives and to stretch international ambitions.

  12. Which universities are in WUN? • UK: Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield, Southampton • North America: Alberta, Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Penn. State, Washington (Seattle), Wisconsin-Madison • Australia: Sydney, Western Australia • China: Nanjing, Zhejiang

  13. What does WUN do? • Supports joint research and online learning, an exchange scheme for staff and students and a range of online seminars. • Does not fund research projects directly, but provides 'seed corn' funding to help collaborations to become self-sustaining.

  14. Research Mobility Programme • Encourages personal and academic development of individuals early in their research careers, to equip them with the skills needed for future international academic success. • Short visits of 2-3 months. The programme enables institutions across the Network to share expertise, rare facilities and establish new relationships at both graduate and supervisor level.

  15. WUN Research Development Fund • Grants worth up £15,000 each to develop research collaborations which fit within the remit of existing or emerging WUN Global Challenge areas. These include: • Furthering the Frontiers of Cultural Understanding • Opportunities and Challenges of Globalisation • Projects are assessed on the basis of research and leadership quality, and a clear ability to become self-sustaining. • Collaborations can involve WUN partners and non- WUN partners but should involve at least 3 WUN members.

  16. WUN Development Fund Provides funding for specific activities - e.gjointly sponsored workshops and conferences - which contribute to the development of a wider WUN collaboration. Funding is available for: • Staff already engaged in existing WUN collaborations, and • Staff wishing to develop projects with clear potential to become WUN projects • Collaborations should involve at least 3 WUN partners. • Awards are worth up to £5,000

  17. Continental networks: an example from Italy • Romantic Performances project (led by University of Bologna but involving about 8 Italian universities and a small number of US and UK academics) • Funded by Italian government • 3-4 year collaboration, meeting regularly • Performances, website, seminars and conferences; co-authored papers, 2 edited books

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