WELCOME TO THE RESEARCH CENTRE AT CITY COLLEGE NORWICH

The Research Centre is situated under Innovation and Partnerships at City College Norwich and provides a research and evaluation service both externally and internally, whilst also supporting the College and its staff in many other ways too. Since its inception, The Research Centre has secured over £1.69million from external funding for research into educational foci and evaluation projects.

We welcome your comments on this website. Any comments that help us to improve the site, making it a focal point and one stop shop for those involved and interested in research within the FE sector.

If you work within the College and are interested in conducting a research project then we can help you with your project from proposal to print (P2P), please see the Proposal to Print page (P2P) for more information.

Research Centre News

New design for News

The News page of this website has been redeveloped to split Funding and Consultations from general Research and Education News. This will make it easier to keep up to date with new Funding opportunities. The new page can be viewed by selecting the News Tab above

SOUL Record Training Sessions 2010

13th July 2010 - Norwich
25th August 2010 - Kings Lynn
6th October 2010 - Cambridge
9th November 2010 - Peterborough

The Research Centre are awarded the NFER Research Engaged School and College Award

The Research Centre has been successful in its application to get City College Norwich rewarded as a research engaged institution, having received the NFER Research Engaged College Award this week. This award is administered and granted by the National Foundation for Educational Research NFER with the support of LSIS, NUT, Ifl, NCSL and Education Journal and has been granted to only six other schools and colleges so far. Further information about this award and how to become a Research Engaged School or College can be found on NFER's website:

 http://www.nfer.ac.uk/what-we-offer/schools/research-engaged-award/
 

Research Workshops - Dates and venues

On behalf of the Higher Education Academy, Angus Carpenter (Research Centre Manager, City College Norwich) and Becky Turner (HELP CETL, University of Plymouth) have organised a further two, one-day events to support practitioners to engage with scholarly activity and research, and provide managers with information and systems that they may need to manage scholarly activity / research within an FEC.  

These events will address key issues for both practitioners and managers within FECs involved with research / scholarly activity, such as:

i. the meaning of scholarly activity/research and how to build a research ethos;

ii. the key research processes, including research design/dissemination;

iii. making funding applications;

iv. key resources to support their engagement with scholarly activity;

v. considerations for and management of scholarly activity/research within an FEC;

vi. institutional impacts from Scholarly Activity / research.

 

The workshops will take place on:

 — 25 March 2010 at Engineering CETL, Loughborough University

 — 11 June 2010 at City of Bristol College, Ashley Down Centre

For further details visit and booking form: www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/universitiesandcolleges/heinfe  or contact Sara Bath sara.bath@heacademy.ac.uk

ACER HE in FE Network 2 February 2010 (9.30 refreshments available; 10am start; lunch at 12.30)

 

The following information has been circulated by Acer: haylee.jones@acer.ac.uk:

Dear Colleague – as you know, the next date for the ACER HE in FE Network is 2 February (9.30 refreshments available; 10am start; lunch at 12.30). This email is to both remind you of this date and update you on our latest plans to reinvigorate the forum.

Research Assistant required

Research Assistant required:

To take a lead role in the evaluation of UEA’s BEACONS for Public Engagement project, which is a novel project funded by Hefce/Welcome Trust/RCUK. Duties will include undertaking reviews, data collection and analysis of activities for evaluation and feeding back into the project to aid future activities. This is a 2 year post that requires a highly capable person to undertake all aspects of evaluation for the project. Further details can be found on the City College Norwich website under vacancies: http://www.fejobs.com/Job.aspx?VacNo=337071&Page=1

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