Building a successful international research career

As part of the British Council activity to support the INSPIRE project we would like to invite the early researchers from your Institute to apply to participate in our workshop ‘Building a successful international research career’. This event is scheduled to take place in UK in February 2010 and if your applicant is successful, your participation will be funded by INSPIRE.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a development opportunity for early-stage researchers and will include:

• Inter-cultural communication for the purpose of collaboration


• Project management for sustainable international collaboration


• Tips and techniques in bidding for external sources of funding


• Strategic skills: influencing, negotiating, presenting and embedding


• International partnership impact across your institution


• Techniques in developing and maintaining international networks

After the UK workshop, there is a second post-event stage where participants are asked to disseminate the learning to other early stage researchers in their country. A commitment to do this will be part of the selection criteria.

It would be a three day event and for successful applicants British Council INSPIRE will cover in-country travel costs, accommodation and meals for the duration of the workshop.

Participants
We are looking to have representatives from the UK as well as Central and South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan)

Key criteria
The applicant must have:

• (in the UK only) either obtained a doctoral qualification or be within 12 months of obtaining a doctoral qualification


• no more than six years overall active researcher experience


• no more than two years full tenure in a current tenured position


• committed to disseminating the workshop information to other young researchers in their own country at a later date (logistics will be organised by the local British Council office)

Selection criteria
The decision will be made by the INSPIRE team in light of the evidence you provide to the questions on the application form. We will be looking to see your current involvement in the project, your ideas for sustainability and your commitment to helping the British Council cascade the training.

Visit the website for reading detailed guidelines and downloading application form and other supporting documents.

All the applications will be received electronically with all the required supporting documents.

The deadline for receiving applications was initially Friday 11 December, but has since been extended to the Friday 18 December