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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.

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Research Centre Events

Friday, 26 February 2010
Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel, Vauxhall, London, SW1V 1EQ
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Loughborough University
Friday, 11 June 2010
City of Bristol College

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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

ESCalate/JISC HE in FE Conference

The ESCalate/JISC HE in FE Conference, Inspiration for Practice will be held on May 26th 2010 at the Trident Centre Warwickshire and the main theme will focus on professional concerns for HE in FE practitioners regarding questions around their status and raising their professional standing - a topic of immediate importance for all HE in FE practitioners.

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 three, 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 the following key aspects:

i)                     The meaning of scholarly activity and research;
ii)                   The key aspects of the research process including research design/dissemination;
iii)                  Making funding applications;
iv)                  Managing a research project;
v)                    Key resources to support their engagement with scholarly activity;
vi)                  Considerations for, and the management of scholarly activity and research in an FEC;
vii)                 Institutional impacts from scholarly activity and research.
 

Developing and enhancing the practice and management of scholarly activity and research within Further Education colleges

 
DATE: 4th December 2009

START TIME: 09:40 am

VENUE: Stockport College of Further and Higher Education, Wellington Road South, Stockport. SK1 3UQ

The recent introductions of IQER, FDAP, HE strategies and IfL CPD commitments has lead to a much greater emphasis being placed upon staff to engage with research / scholarly activity. To assist colleges in developing their support for these activities, the Higher Education Academy’s HE in FE Enhancement Programme has organised three one-day events designed with both a practitioner and manager focus to provide them with the knowledge, examples, resources and confidence to engage and/or manage these activities. Workshops and presentations will be delivered in parallel for both practitioner and managers that will increase their awareness, knowledge and practice.

Further details can be found on the HE Academy website: www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/4_dec2010_stockport_scholarlyactivity

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