Creating connections – Science, innovation and skills in the North East

Could the support employers provide to schools be increased, and be more effective than at present?

This round table will catalyse discussions on how the collective impact of different types of employer support for schools and colleges could be improved and supported in the North East. The discussion will explore all the activities employers currently do, or could engage with, to support STEM.

For further details please contact Kelly Chaplin.

This round table will focus on the UK Government's industrial strategy and 2.4% target for R&D investment. Further details to follow.

If you are interested in attending this session, please contact Zara Williams.

There will be an opportunity to talk to members of the Royal Society Education Outreach team about the Partnership Grants scheme. This is a funding opportunity for schools to work in collaboration with a STEM professional from industry or academia on an extended research project. Schools can apply for up to £3000 for materials and equipment. The aims of the Partnership Grants scheme are:

-To embed experimental science into the curriculum

-To demonstrate that science is interesting and has real world applications

-To support teachers being part of the scientific community

-To develop educational skills of researchers

This scheme funds approximately 40 schools per year, across the UK, from primary to FE colleges to undertake research in the classroom.

The Royal Society offers over 20 grants and fellowships to outstanding researchers across the world. Funding is available in the following areas:

-Early career fellowships

-Senior career fellowships

-Industry and innovation awards

-Research capacity and infrastructure awards

-International collaboration and travel awards and fellowships

Meet with members of the Royal Society Grants team to find out about the various funding opportunities available to you and advice on applying.

The Royal Society publishes high quality, peer reviewed journals. Nine of our journals cover the full breadth of the biological, physical and cross-disciplinary sciences and Notes and Records is dedicated to the history of science.  We also publish Biographical Memoirs, an annual compilation of individual memoirs, which celebrates the lives and scientific achievements of Fellows of the Royal Society.

Whether you are publishing an individual article or a themed issue, we promise a first-class level of author service, high production values and worldwide dissemination in well-read and highly-cited publications. We would be glad to discuss options for publishing with us.

Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), as the network partner of Innovate UK, connects people to accelerate innovation for economic growth and provides specialist support via Knowledge Transfer Advisers to facilitate Partnership development and succeed in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP).  

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships have been helping UK businesses innovate for growth for over 40 years and are one of a range of funding initiatives made available through InnovateUK and other government co-funders, and delivered by the KTN.  A KTP also provides your business with extraordinary and cost-effective access to the unique resources within the UK’s knowledge base: research expertise, cutting-edge technology and equipment, and solution-oriented initiatives.

Find out more about how a Knowledge Transfer Partnership could unlock innovation in your company by contacting one of our expert Knowledge Transfer Advisors.

Local Knowledge Transfer Advisors John Clayton and Ian Blakemore will be on the KTN stand and representatives of the 5 North East Universities will be present throughout the day.

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The Society is developing a Biosketch which can be adapted for a range of different processes and situations that require a light-touch evaluation of a researcher. This could include for promotion and hiring, for applications for committee membership and for informal approaches to research groups. The main aim of the Biosketch is to offer a starting point towards a consistent way for individuals across the research landscape to highlight their varied contributions to science and society. The proposed Biosketch further has the potential to facilitate mobility between academia and other sectors, including industry.

The Biosketch is part of the Society’s Research Culture programme that has encouraged researchers in the UK to think holistically about the culture they are part of. Themes discussed include integrity, diversity, the way research is funded, and broad recognition of researchers' activities.

The Creating Connections Newcastle session will be set up as a consultation around the Society’s Biosketch. Ideally, stakeholders from both academia and industry will get involved to discuss a number of topics. What are their first responses to the Biosketch, both as a potential user and evaluator? Will it recognise a researcher’s range of contributions to research, and is it missing anything? Does the Biosketch have the potential to facilitate industry-academia mobility?

To request an invitation to this session, please contact Karen Stroobants or Frances Downey.

The Royal Society’s Dynamics of Data Science project is concerned with the movement of data science expertise between academia, industry and the public sector.

The project is exploring:

- Drivers for the movement of data scientists 

- Demand changes over time and across sectors

- Challenges across sectors around skills needs

- Models for upskilling, retaining and sharing data science talent

The project, led by a working group and chaired by Professor Andrew Blake FRS, former director at the Alan Turing Institute, builds on findings from a joint Royal Society conference on the skills gap in data analytics in the UK held in 2016 in partnership with the Royal Statistical Society. We found that to meet the potential that data science brings it will be necessary to develop a skilled data science workforce. 

This workshop will explore some of the emerging findings from the Dynamics of Data Science project and highlight a number of case studies of talent sharing from the North East of England.

Please contact Jennifer Panting to request an invitation.