Carol Spencely - Navigating Research Funding with Confidence

Carol Spencelyis a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey. She has previously led a development programme for Early Career Research staff within the Doctoral College at the University of Surrey, and was a founder of the Postdoc Development Centre at Imperial College London where she also worked as a postdoctoral researcher. Carol has created and led workshops on preparing funding proposals for research staff and for PhD students, and also set up the First Funding Programme which is a support package tailored for researchers putting in their first funding application. Carol has co-authored a book entitled, What Every Postdoc Needs to Know and has produced booklets for both Imperial and the University of Surrey collating advice from experienced researchers on funding applications. She has extensive experience of preparing researchers for funding interviews and coaching researchers through the funding processes.Marcela Acua-Riverais Research Development Manager at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (formerly at the University of Surrey). She was previously a researcher in Environmental Psychology in her home country, Mexico, and the UK, and her work was recognised by the Risk Analysis Society (USA) and the Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education (SCEPTrE; UK). Currently, she combines her research skills with her experience in research funding and provides advice and support to researchers at different stages of the application process since the identification of funding opportunities to the provision of peer-review comments, including impact, open access and data management plans. She sits in internal bid evaluation committees, provides comments as a lay person and from the funders remit. As part of her role, she also participates in strategic University committees aimed at improving research success and funding processes and organises workshops and events to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration and funding applications.Pam Denicolosresearch, and that of her doctoral students and colleague co-researchers, has been wide-ranging, covering science, psychology, professional education and health topics across the full range of educational sectors, from young children to adult/professional, and the social and developmental issues that inflict themselves upon older and disabled people. She has supervised over 60 doctoral researchers to successful completion and examined more than twice as many. In recent years her focus has returned increasingly to postgraduate and professional education and constructivist research. Having established a Graduate School at Reading and an inter-university Graduate Centre prior to her retirement, she now provides advice, consultancy and training workshops to a range of universities worldwide on doctoral research support and training, and on research methods, particularly those based in the interpretivist paradigm. She is a founder editor and writer for the Success in Research Sage series.