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Hugely recommend this blog post by Anna Pilz on what to do with unsuccessful grants - there's some really excellent advice for those of you applying for funding, or dealing with that dreaded email to tell you your application wasn't successful. Funding rejections are so much more common than we think - I regularly work with researchers to apply for schemes with success rates of <10%, so based on the numbers alone, most applications are unsuccessful. We definitely don't talk about this enough, and I think sometimes we as researcher developers can forget that applying for funding is an emotional process as much as an academic and logistical one. It might help if, as Anna says, we start to normalise rejections. They suck, but they don't mean that your research isn't valuable (and they don't mean that you're not a great researcher, either!).

This is happening tomorrow! (And you can blame me for the "mistakes" framing here.) Here's some background: A couple years ago, I sat down and came up with a list of 25 "mistakes" PhDs often make when contemplating (or actively pursuing) a shift into other kinds of careers. I then picked what I thought of as the top three to further explore. Join us tomorrow to learn more! Plus (of course), what to do if you recognize your thoughts and actions in what we discuss.

Our latest enews came out this week. We shared the news that our #education research appeared in a New York Times article, discussed our new strategic partnership and introduced our new Senior Research Associate. You can read it here- https://lnkd.in/grqBbBVA #growingbusiness #researchers

Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher’s Prize – deadline approaching (26th September)   The Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher’s Prize gives early career housing researchers an opportunity to showcase their work to a wide and influential audience. It also promotes shared learning across the housing sector and encourages early researchers in their career. Winners receive a £500 cheque at an award ceremony (part of Homes UK conference on Wednesday, 27th November 2024), a write up of their research in Inside Housing (who sponsor the prize, along with Altair Ltd, Aster Group and L&Q), and their paper published on Thinkhouse’s website.   In terms of entry criteria and requirements, the competition is open to those with up to eight years’ research experience. We will consider think pieces, review papers synthesising existing evidence and policy analysis, research-based business cases/board papers/insight pieces from within housing associations or local authority landlords, papers sharing the findings of original empirical research or investigative journalism type pieces. Journal articles or other papers already published or under review will be accepted.   Papers should have a focus that matches the broad interests of Thinkhouse, including policy publications that cover ways to increase the amount and quality of the UK’s housing stock and the related economic, social and community benefits of doing so. We are also interested in international research that has relevance to UK housing. Please contact Thinkhouse if you have a paper that does not match this outline but relates to housing and connected issues as the judging panel may accept your application. You can read the full requirements on Thinkhouse’s website.   Submission should be between 4,000-8,000 words in length and submitted in a MS Word format, which includes the following information: author(s) name(s), any institutional/organisational affiliation, current job title (if applicable), email address, paper title, 200 word abstract and word count. Papers must be submitted to contact@thinkhouse.org.uk by 17.00 Thursday, 26th September 2024.

Calling all ECR Housing Scholars! Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher’s Prize – deadline approaching (26th September) Here's the promo material:   ➡ The Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher’s Prize gives early career housing researchers an opportunity to showcase their work to a wide and influential audience. It also promotes shared learning across the housing sector and encourages early researchers in their career. Winners receive a £500 cheque at an award ceremony (part of Homes UK conference on Wednesday, 27th November 2024), a write up of their research in Inside Housing (who sponsor the prize, along with Altair Ltd, Aster Group and L&Q), and their paper published on Thinkhouse’s website.   In terms of entry criteria and requirements, the competition is open to those with up to eight years’ research experience. We will consider think pieces, review papers synthesising existing evidence and policy analysis, research-based business cases/board papers/insight pieces from within housing associations or local authority landlords, papers sharing the findings of original empirical research or investigative journalism type pieces. Journal articles or other papers already published or under review will be accepted.   Papers should have a focus that matches the broad interests of Thinkhouse, including policy publications that cover ways to increase the amount and quality of the UK’s housing stock and the related economic, social and community benefits of doing so. We are also interested in international research that has relevance to UK housing. Please contact Thinkhouse if you have a paper that does not match this outline but relates to housing and connected issues as the judging panel may accept your application. You can read the full requirements on Thinkhouse’s website.   Submission should be between 4,000-8,000 words in length and submitted in a MS Word format, which includes the following information: author(s) name(s), any institutional/organisational affiliation, current job title (if applicable), email address, paper title, 200 word abstract and word count. Papers must be submitted to contact@thinkhouse.org.uk by 17.00 Thursday, 26th September 2024. ⬅  

💡Are you at the start of your research career? If so, the Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher's Prize (ECRP) is the perfect opportunity to showcase your work to a wide and influential audience. Celebrating the fifth year of the ECRP competition, the goal is to promote shared learning across the housing sector and encourage early researchers in their career. 👉 What you need to know: ▪️ This competition is open to those with up to eight years research experience. ▪️ We welcome candidates with or without a PhD, and those working within academic or non-academic institutions. ▪️ Co-authored papers are permitted in cases where all authors meet the entry requirements. ▪️ Authors of the winning paper will be awarded a £500 cheque. ▪️ Open to UK and non-UK applicants. ▪️ Submission should be between 4,000-8,000 words in length. 📆 Papers must be submitted to contact@thinkhouse.org.uk by 17.00 Thursday 26th September 2024. Altair Ltd are pleased to sponsor the Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher's Prize competition alongside Aster Group UK, Inside Housing, and L&Q. 🔗 Find out more information here: https://ow.ly/TP1450QVqvp #researchpaper #competition #research #thinkhouse #ECRP2024

The outcomes of this Rathenau research on the conditions and experiences of PhD-candidates are now also available in English. Relevant (and recognizable?) for all involved in PhD-research. Not only when you’re a candidate, but also also for supervisors, research support, and management.

Dear colleagues Please help to advertise the following opportunity to advanced doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, assistant professors, and other early-career academics! FOREIGN POLICY IMPACT SUMMER INSTITUTE - 2025   Colorado State University is proud to organize the Foreign Policy Impact Summer Institute – 2025. The institute has been designed for early-career academics with an interest in changing the national conversation on US foreign policy. Expert facilitators from across the United States will provide training on how to influence the public policy process; how to write accessible, policy-relevant prose; how to use social media effectively; how to disseminate findings and policy ideas via traditional forms of media (broadcast and print); and more.   The program will run for four weeks in July 2025, with participants asked to meet for three days per week (remote/Zoom). Honoraria of $3,000 will be made available to successful applicants.   The institute will be of special interest to scholars with a normative commitment to reforming US foreign policy, and/or whose research has implications that challenge the foreign-policy status quo. The institute aims to help with the dissemination of work that rethinks US foreign policy and offers fresh, new ideas for how best to advance US national interests amid vast domestic and international change.   Details:   - The institute will be held remotely via Zoom, with the intention of being as accessible and inclusive as possible. - An all-star cast of experts will facilitate training sessions on how to develop policy-relevant research, pitch and write op-eds, give effective media interviews, and more. - Participants will receive detailed feedback on their written work and interview technique. - Efforts will be made to accommodate participants from every CONUS time zone. - Each participant will receive an honorarium of $3,000 as compensation for their time and energy.   To apply: - Email csu.policylab@gmail.com with a CV, statement of interest, and short writing sample. - Statements of interest should be no longer than 600 words, and should include a brief description of current research interests and a succinct statement of future career goals. - Deadline for applications is 15 October, 2024.   Questions and expressions of interest are welcome, and can be addressed to Dr. Peter Harris at peter.harris@colostate.edu.   The Foreign Policy Impact Summer Institute has been made possible by generous financial support from the Charles Koch Foundation.

How do two scholars in a relationship land jobs at the same institution? For job candidates trying to negotiate an offer, and for institutions trying to seal the deal with one promising professor by offering a spot for their significant other, it can be a thorny question. A new scorecard for R1 institutions aims to help academic couples navigate partner hires. The scoring system is based on eight factors, such as whether institutions offer tenure-track, fixed-term, nonfaculty positions (or a combination thereof) to partner hires, whether they have a dual-career office and website, and whether start-up funding was available to partner hires. The research comes from Torin Monahan and Jill A. Fisher, both professors at Chapel Hill. Their work is not only broadly relevant — studies have found that more than one-third of academic researchers are in a relationship with another scholar — but also, they argue, timely, given the positive effects that recruiting and retaining partner hires can have on institutions’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. It's also personal; Monahan and Fisher have been an academic couple since graduate school, and have navigated the partner-hire process at three different institutions. The couple sees their project as being as much a public-service effort and an advocacy tool as it is scholarship. “There is a comparative dimension to this,” Monahan said, “and we have all kinds of other ranking systems of universities out there, but not necessarily from this particular perspective.” https://chroni.cl/4bczsTX