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Theme:

Education and Research

Category:

Education and Research This session will be DELIVERED VIRTUALLY - joining instructions will be provided beforehand.

About this course:

The Researcher-led Initiative Awards (RLI) provide funding to enable early career research staff and postgraduate research students across the 黑料不打烊 to be creative, proactive and empowered, through the process of initiating, designing, managing and delivering new professional development activities for their peers that will develop the skills and experience needed to progress their careers.

These awards also offer the opportunity to experience applying for and managing a funding bid.

This session offers help with completing the application form, including tips on what to include, and outlines the importance of providing a clear budget.

There is an opportunity to hear from successful 2026 award holders who will be able to share their experiences.

Learning outcomes:

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:.

- Have a clear understanding of the Award, funding criteria and how to apply.

- Obtain some tips on how to write a strong application.

- Learn how to understand your costings and write a clear budget.

- Learn about reaching your audience.

- What is expected of successful award holders.

- Learn what 2026 award holders have to say.

- Have any questions answered.

Who should attend this course:

Postgraduate research students and early career research staff (note that ECRs across R Only, E&R, E&S and Technical Strategy & Operations job families will need to explain how they fit into the Early Career Researcher stage as part of the RLI application process).

If you have accessibility requirements, please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk in advance to discuss further.

Presenter(s):

This session is delivered by Dr Peter O'Rourke and Dr Chris Wood.

Before the course:

No preparation is required for this course.

A joining link will be provided beforehand.

Learning provider:

This course is administered by Researcher Development; please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details.

If you register for any of our sessions, it is expected that you will attend.

If you are not able to attend please log in to the `iTrent' online system to remove your name from the relevant activity before it is due to take place.

You will be expected you to attend for the whole session and for ease of administration, attendance registers will be taken at the end of each session.

Should you need to leave a session early or you experience ongoing technical issues, please email ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.

Please add yourself to the waiting list and we will contact you once dates are available.