Venue: UPDATED - Babbage Building room 304

Teas, coffee, milk, and biscuits provided – please email kayla.parker@plymouth.ac.uk if you have any dietary requirements (v) Vegetarian, (VV) Vegan, (gf) Gluten Free

Eligibility: This session is particularly relevant to all academic and research staff in the faculty who self-identify as an early career researcher, and all late-stage PhD students as 'ECRs in transition' to inform their postdoctoral career planning. Other staff are most welcome to attend.

What: The Journey to Securing Your First Research Grant

In this session Dr Jasmine Kelland, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, will share her research journey from her PhD thesis, Fathers at Work, to the publication in 2022 of her book, Caregiving Fathers in the Workplace, and now, her first major funding award from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. She will cover:

• My research topic and ‘fatherhood forfeits’

• Failed applications and learnings

• Go through what I needed to do to obtain the external grant

• When I am at with my project and dealing with the many ethical issues

• What next?

Before joining academia, Jasmine had a successful career in Human Resources, working with organisations such as the NHS, Boots and ITV. She will share how she developed her PhD thesis and her ‘fatherhood forfeit’ research, which attracted wide attention in the press and media; it was published by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee and referred to in a House of Commons debate exploring ‘Fathers in the Family’.

Jasmine’s 20-minute talk will be followed by a short presentation by Ewa Thompson, Research Funding Manager, Research and Innovation, to highlight external grants, such as that offered by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust that are specifically targeted to early career researchers.

The Q+A discussion is chaired by Dr Kayla Parker, Co-ordinator, ECR Network for the faculty.

BOOKING: please reserve your place via Eventbrite before Thursday 23rd January, so we can book refreshments.

Any queries: please contact Dr Kayla Parker kayla.parker@plymouth.ac.uk

SESSION PLAN (times are approximate)

1:00pm Refreshments available – teas, coffee and biscuits, socialising

1:15pm Welcome – Kayla Parker – health and safety, introduction to the session

1:20pm Presentation 1 – Jasmine Kelland The Journey to Securing Your First Research Grant

1:40pm Presentation 2 – Ewa Thompson External Grant Funding for ECRs

1:47pm Q+A Discussion – Chaired by Kayla Parker

2:15pm Session ends – informal discussion and socialising continues to 2.30pm

Links

1. Dr Jasmine Kelland https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/jasmine-kelland

2. Dr Jasmine Kelland (2022) Caregiving Fathers in the Workplace: Organisational Experiences and the Fatherhood Forfeit https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-97971-3

ECR Spotlight: The Journey to Securing Your First Research Grant