SUCCESS IN RESEARCH
The Success in Research series has been designed by Cindy Becker and Pam Denicolo to provide short, authoritative and accessible guides for students, researchers and academics on the key area of professional and research development.
Each book is written with an eye to avoiding jargon and each aims to cut to the chase of what readers really need to know about a given topic. These are practical and supportive books and will be essential reading for any students or researchers interested in developing their skills and broadening their professional and methodological knowledge in an academic context.
Edited by Pam Denicolo 2014
Colin Chandler, 2014
Sophie Payne-Gifford, 2014
Jennifer Chubb, 2014
Jo Lakey, Geoff Rodgers and Rosa Scoble, 2014
Christopher Wood, 2014
Rob Daley and Sara Shinton, 2014
Tony Bromley and Andr de Campos, 2014
Tony Bromley, 2014
Andy Jackson, 2014
Ellen Pearce and Pam Denicolo, 2014
Christopher Wood and Pam Denicolo, 2014
First published 2014
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For all the researchers who strive to make a difference.
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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
EDITOR
Pam Denicolo is a chartered psychologist, recently retired from her full-time role at the University of Reading where she developed the Graduate School system and the post-registration professional practice and research element of the School of Pharmacy. She maintains there a research group focussing on PCP approaches to research. She continues to provide workshops for doctoral students and supervisors worldwide and has also taken up a part-time appointment as professor at the University of Surrey, advising on Doctoral Training Centre development and other matters pertaining to doctoral studies derived from her membership of national committees, advisory boards and working groups.
Her passion for supporting and developing graduate students is demonstrated through her contributions as Vice-chair of the UK Council for Graduate Education Executive Committee, as Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education Postgraduate Network and Executive Editor of the Guides for Supervisors Series, and as a member of other national committees and working groups which, for example, review and evaluate the impact of the Roberts-funded generic skills training, and the concordance of UK universities with the European Code and Charter. She was a key contributor to Vitaes development of the Researcher Development Framework (RDF) and the QAAs Doctoral Characteristics Advisory Group and its revision of the Code of Practice section on postgraduate research.
With her colleague Cindy Becker from Reading University, Pam co-edits and contributes to the Success in Research book series for Sage.
Contributors
These were drawn from the RCUK/Vitae Impact and Evaluation Group and contributors to the UKCGE Impact Workshop at the University of Warwick, February 2012.
Tony Bromley is responsible for the Graduate Training and Support Centre (GTSC) at the University of Leeds, which is part of the universitys Staff and Departmental Development Unit. GTSC provides personal and professional development activity for postgraduate researchers across the university. He is also the advisor for Vitae in the Yorkshire and North East region of the UK and Associate Editor of the International Journal for Researcher Development. With a PhD in Materials Science, Tony worked in industrial research and development and postdoctoral work before following his interests in the professional development of researchers. He then held researcher development posts at the University of Manchester before returning to Leeds in 2006 and his current role. He was author of the UK sector evaluation impact framework for researcher development (see www.vitae.ac.uk/impact ) and has continued in a leading role during the implementation of the impact framework, also authoring subsequent sector reports on the evidence for the impact of researcher development. He has presented widely and facilitated many workshops on the researcher development impact framework. He has also published in the materials science and education fields (consult his personal university webpage http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/sddu-tony-bromley.html ).
Colin Chandler was employed by Northumbria University as Postgraduate Research Advisor and Reader in Rehabilitation in the School of Health, Community and Education Studies and has recently moved to the University of Edinburgh. He has 30 years experience working in higher education, initially in a Russell Group university, and then in the post-92 sector. He has maintained an active research profile, contributing to RAE submissions throughout his career. He has developed and managed postgraduate taught and research programmes, supervising to completion 17 Doctorates and five MPhils, and has mentored two PhD by publication students. He was a member of the Impact and Evaluation Group (formerly the Rugby Team) linked to Vitae, who work nationally on the researcher development agenda.
Jennifer Chubb, Research Innovation Officer, University of York, is actively involved in supporting researchers to engage with the Impact Agenda principally through training and development, whilst also advising academic staff on individual grant applications. Jenn joined the University of York from the University of Leeds, where she worked as an Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer Training and Development Officer supporting research students and staff through the development of a wide range of training opportunities across a broad range of disciplines. She has expertise in delivering bespoke and generic courses on research impact, grant writing and knowledge exchange in higher education nationally and internationally. Her background is in philosophy and she is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Education at York, examining the Impact Agenda and academics perception of their roles: perspectives from the UK and Australia.
