Dear colleagues,
Apologies for any cross-posting
There are still some places available for this year’s Vitae Connections event: 'Provocations, conversations, innovations: Doing things differently in researcher development', which is focussed on providing a development opportunity for experienced practitioners.
It will take place on Wednesday 7 November 2012, 09.30 – 16.30, Holiday Inn, Regents Park
Speakers and topics will include:
•Berrin Bas - Can work and life be reconciled?
•Cat Kennedy - Talent management
•Steven DeSouza - Networking and Social capital
•Jeremy Whittle (Resettlement UK) - Using champions to bring about change
•Ryan Pereira (Westminster Volunteer/Centrica) - Volunteering and personal development
•Viv Parry (Science writer and broadcaster) - Unlocking potential
•John McGurk (CIPD) – Trends and challenges (exclusive film)
What’s in it for me?
•Provocations – short, sharp, TED inspired talks from a range of speakers involved in learning and development activities from inside and outside academia. These include speakers from industry, commerce and other sectors to challenge you to think and do differently
•Conversations – creative, critical and shared with fellow experienced practitioners
•Innovations – time and space to generate new ideas and collaborate to develop training materials for use with researchers.
Why should I attend?
This practical one-day event will provide an opportunity to:
•hear from inspirational speakers from a range of organisations who will talk about their experiences of delivering learning and development activities
•be involved in peer to peer discussions about how these experiences can be transferred to researcher development in your institution
•access other practitioners and experts to share practice on developing researchers
•gain creative techniques that can be immediately integrated into your training activities with researchers
•develop innovative ideas for integrating the Vitae Researcher Development Framework in your institutional provision
•explore collaborative opportunities to develop new training materials for use with researchers.
The event is free to attend for those working in UK higher education institutions.
To book a place please visit www.vitae.ac.uk/vitaeconnections2012
Best regards
Jonathan
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