The Association of Commonwealth Universities ACU has announced the following research grants, Fellowships and opportunities for the faculty members of its partner universities, the same may kindly be disseminated among the faculty members of your esteemed campus with the request to capitalize:
‘Writing for the Media’ Training with Universal Impact / The Conversation 2025 (Due Date: 15:00 UTC, 29 April 2025 ):
This tailor-made training course will provide you with the skills to pitch to and write for the media. Facilitated by Universal Impact / The Conversation, the course will be held online, over two, two-hour sessions and will cover:?
· The importance of research communication?
· Examples of reach and impact?
· The media landscape and the type of stories researchers can write?
· What makes a good story (with examples)?
· Language, structure and tone?
· How to avoid being misrepresented?
· How to pitch successfully?
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Supporting Research Community Training Grants 2024-25 (Due Date: 15:00 UTC, 29 April 2025):
Hosted by the?ACU Supporting Research Community, the Supporting Research Community Training Grants (Five grants of up to GBP 2,000) fund staff at?ACU member universities?to organize and deliver training for their early and/or mid-career researchers, including doctoral candidates. Universities can use their internal criteria of what defines an early career researcher (ECR), but this must include doctoral candidates, and the training must be made available to ECRs from multiple disciplines. Skills which are in scope of the training include:
- Career training, including doctoral careers outside higher education
- Public engagement and communicating with non-academic audiences
- Relationship/stakeholder management
For more information and about how to apply, please visit:
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HR in HE Community Grants (Due Date: 5 May 2025 3PM UTC ):
The Human Resources in Higher Education (HR in HE) Community Grants support university Human Resource practitioners in the ever-changing world of work by encouraging collaboration and promoting the sharing of good practice. The grants (A total budget of GBP 10,000 is available for this grant scheme. This can be allocated as a number of smaller or larger grants) are available to help meet the costs of organizing projects that promote the essential work of HR and the aims of the HR in HE Community. The grants can be used to support a diverse range of virtual or in-person projects, workshops, or events, such as:
- Attending HR-related conferences and sharing learnings.
- Creating and delivering relevant training and development for HR practitioners.
- Co-creating approaches/policies on HR issues, such as workforce planning, inclusion, mental health, international recruitment.
- Co-creating HR processes.
- Delivering webinars on pressing issues for HR practitioners.
- Benchmarking of good HR practice across the Commonwealth.
- Research projects on HR issues.
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Gender Grants (Due Date: 5 May 2025 3PM UTC):
ACU Gender Grants (Five grants of up to GBP 2,000) are awarded annually to member universities to support initiatives that will boost gender equity and equality on campus. The grants can be used for a?diverse range of projects, workshops, and events in areas such as:
- Supporting women in leadership
- Raising awareness of sexual harassment and developing anti-sexual harassment initiatives
- Supporting women in science and research
- Creating effective institutional policies
- Mainstreaming gender equity into the curriculum
- To help meet the costs of organizing projects that promote gender equity and equality.