Application and Deadline
Application deadline for SA participants opened again – deadline 31st of May 2017.
Please note that participants are expected to attend all sessions of the workshop (11th-13th of October 2017) and participate in a 4-week online preparatory phase (September 2017).
Participants
Participants can come from academic institutions and from practice. We are able to offer 30 places in total to:
- ten participants from the partner institutions (five from CPUT and five from UEL)
- ten participants from other higher education institutions (five from the UK and five from South Africa)
- ten participants from outside academia (NPOs, NGOs, research organisations, professional bodies, governmental agencies, individual practitioners, etc) (five from the UK and five from South Africa)
We can only fund participants from non-commercial institutions.
Eligibility Criteria
Academic participants must be Early Career Researchers: Early Career Researchers are defined as holding a PhD (or having equivalent research experience) and having up to ten years post-PhD research experience.
Participants from academic institutions must have a research or academic position (a permanent post, research contract, or fellowship etc) at a recognised research institution either in the UK or in South Africa.
Practitioners must be established professionals with a recognised interest in the aims and values of WISH working for non-commercial institutions. We are actively looking for people whose experience embraces both collaborations with Higher Education and the creative industries.
Quality Assessment
- Experience and relevance of the applicant’s research area and/or professional practice to the workshop
- Motivation and contribution to the aims of the workshop
- Description of the long term impact expected through the participation in the workshop, including the ability to transform ideas into realisable projects including the ability to disseminate workshop’s outcomes
Selection Procedure:
- Eligibility check
- Quality assessment
Notification of results:
Our intention is to notify applicants of the outcome of their application by end of May 2017.
Equal Opportunities
Equal opportunities and diversity are at the heart of the British Council’s cultural relations ambitions. While recognising that some research fields are dominated by one particular gender, coordinators are encouraged to work towards an equal gender balance and promote diversity. They must not exclude applicants on the basis of ethnicity, gender, religious belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Participants’ selection undertaken by workshop organisers must not contravene this policy. Extra support to enable participation of Early Career Researchers with special needs will be given.
For more information please email WISHresearcherlinks@uel.ac.uk