Budget
£650,000
Project status
In progress
Duration
1 Oct 2018 to 28 Feb 2022
£650,000
In progress
1 Oct 2018 to 28 Feb 2022
The Reimagining Recruitment project conducted a programme of research into the experiences and attitudes of early career academics and their potential future employers, funded by the EPSRC Inclusion Matters scheme. This scheme had the aim to improve equality, diversity and inclusion within the engineering and physical sciences. Our , explored how to drive culture change surrounding academic recruitment, especially at early career stages and from this we are making evidence-based policy change recommendations.
The research was embedded within, and disseminated through, the centrepiece activity: an innovative programme of collaborative incubator events. Incubators are domain-specific workshops, run by experts in that field, attended by academics at all career stages who formulate and/or solve interesting problems. The Covid-19 pandemic severely affected the programme of incubators and, although some moved to an online format, the number and scope were curtailed.
Two "trailblazer" incubators were delivered by the University of Bath as a proof of concept.
Incubator 1: Probability meets biology, 29 April - 3 May 2019, Bath
Incubator 2: Light@Bath, 16 - 17 May 2019, Bath
Ten further Incubators were delivered by partner institutions, supported by the project team.
9 - 13 September 2019, Bristol
4 - 6 November 2019, London
22 - 24 January 2020, Herts
Beyond the car: Future mobility in Bath 3 - 5 February 2020, Bath
Open hardware from academia 3 - 5 February 2020, Bath
22 - 26 June 2020, an online event hosted by University of Exeter
22 - 24 March 2021, an online event hosted by Ulster University
21 - 23 April 2021, an online event hosted by Warwick University
26 - 28 April 2021, an online event hosted by Oxford Brookes University
4 - 6 May 2021, an online event hosted by Heriot-Watt University
This project was funded by EPSRC.