HR Excellence in Research Award

We are applying for the HR Excellence in Research Award. Please click on this link to access our Opening Paragraph (Introduction) detailing how we identified the action/priorities and our Gap Analysis and Implementation Action Plan.

The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers sets out the expectations and responsibilities of researchers, their managers, employers and funders. It aims to increase the attractiveness and sustainability of research careers in the UK and to improve the quantity, quality and impact of research for the benefit of UK society and the economy.

The Concordat will ensure today's researchers are nurtured and supported during their career development. By setting out clear expectations for researchers, research managers, research institutions and funders of research, the Concordat aims to enhance the research workforce and thereby sustain research excellence in the UK, bringing benefits to the health, economy and well-being of our nation.

The Concordat consists of a set of key principles for the future support and management of research careers, and under each principle, an explanation of how it may be embedded into institutional practice.

The Concordat's key principles:

1. Recognition of the importance of recruiting, selecting and retaining researchers with the highest potential to achieve excellence in research.
2. Researchers are recognised and valued by their employing organisation as an essential part of their organisation's human resources and a key component of their overall strategy to develop and deliver world-class research.
3. Researchers are equipped and supported to be adaptable and flexible in an increasingly diverse, mobile, global research environment.
4. The importance of researchers' personal and career development, and lifelong learning, is clearly recognised and promoted at all stages of their career.
5. Individual researchers share the responsibility for and need to pro-actively engage in their own personal and career development and lifelong learning.
6. Diversity and equality must be promoted in all aspects of the recruitment and career management of researchers.
7. The sector and all stakeholders will undertake regular and collective review of their progress in strengthening the attractiveness and sustainability of research careers in the UK.

To download a copy of the Concordat, please click on this link: http://www.researchconcordat.ac.uk/documents/concordat.pdf

Click here to access the Vitae Briefing for Managers of Reseachers

A Working Group of the Research Committee was formed to review the current position of the Concordat within Anglia Ruskin University. The members of this Group are:

• Dr Tony West (Chair), Director, RDCS
• Sarah Driscoll, HR Manager, HRS
• Professor Eugene Giddens, Director of Research, ALSS
• Julie Scott, Research Training and Ethics Manager, RDCS
• Jill Smit, Research Support Co-ordinator, RDCS
• Professor Caroline Strange, Assistant Director (Research Support), RDCS
• Sonia Young, Assistant Director (Organisational Development), HRS

For information on additional skills training, please see http://web.anglia.ac.uk/hr/training/

 

There are also two other Concordats

Concordat to Support Research Integrity
This Concordat sets out five commitments that will provide assurances to government, the wider public and the international community that research in the UK continues to be underpinned by the highest standards of rigour and integrity.  It is available at:

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/ResearchIntegrity.aspx

Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research
The Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research outlines the expectations and responsibilities of research funders with respect to public engagement, to help embed public engagement in universities and research institutes. This will enhance the future of research and benefit the UK society and economy.  It is available at:

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/per/Pages/Concordat.aspx

 

 

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