This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module offers existing researchers the opportunity to develop and enhance the understanding and skills required for a successful research career in a university, as well as a forum for the recognition, discussion and resolution of problems encountered doing research in higher education. Contributors to the module are drawn from different disciplinary areas across the University.
The module explores the policy framework of research, the mechanisms used to assess research quality, and the structures and networks through which research funding is distributed. The researcher's own role in developing successful research is explicitly acknowledged through sessions on grant applications and reviews, and on the varied disciplinary practices of dissemination and publishing. Participants are encouraged to review their own practice and to consider future strategies for developing research careers.
10 hours
Autumn
N/A
An assignment equivalent to a 2,000 – 3,000 word portfolio on a negotiated topic reflecting critically on participants' own research practice and professional development needs.
Participants wishing to use this module to demonstrate achievement of elements of the UKPSF should include a Fellowship declaration on the template provided in the module guide.
Aldridge, Jacqueline & Derrington, Andrew (2012) The Research Funding Toolkit: How to Plan and Write Successful Grant Applications, 224 pages, SAGE Publications Ltd
British Academy (2010) Past, present and future: the public value of the humanities and social sciences, London, The British Academy
Bruce, C, Pham, B, Stoodley, I (2004) Constituting the significance and value of research: views from information technology academics and industry professionals Studies in Higher Education, 29, 2, 219 – 238
Delamont, Sara & Atkinson, Paul (2004) Successful research careers, Maidenhead: Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press
Lovegrove, Barry G., Johnson, Steven D. (2008) Assessment of research performance in Biology: how well do peer review and bibliometry correlate? Bioscience, 58, 2, 160-164
Lucas, Lisa (2005) The research game in academic life, Open University Press
Macfarlane, B (2009) Researching with integrity: the ethics of academic enquiry Abingdon, Routledge
REF (2014), http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/ home page for the Research Excellence Framework, Higher Education Funding Council for England
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
Understand the nature and context of research in higher education, both at the University of Kent and nationally, how research is assessed and its relation to their academic practice, where appropriate (PGCHE A6,B1,B3;UKPSF A4,A5,V3)
Exercise initiative in furthering a research career, for example by writing and submitting research papers, research proposals and grant applications, and the dissemination of research results (PGCHE C7,D2,D3; UKPSF A5)
Reflect critically upon their own practice and plan for their future needs and continuing professional development as a researcher in higher education (PGCHE D1;UKPSF A5)
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