Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and
engage with a secondary school in Greater Manchester? Are you
passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in bringing your cutting
edge research into the classroom? Then the School-University Partnerships
Initiative (SUPI) might be for you!
School-University Partnerships Initiative (SUPI): Training &
Funding Opportunity
Thursday
21 November 2013, 9:30 – 16:45, Staff House, The University of
Manchester
This opportunity is open to early career researchers (PhDs, Research Staff and New
Academics with little or no experience of school outreach.
A one-day
interactive cross-faculty workshop for researchers exploring the why, what and
how of engaging with schools. You'll get to meet researchers involved in
school outreach, hear from secondary teachers who collaborate with researchers
to deliver outreach activities, and work up your own ideas.
Following the workshop taking place on Thursday 21 November 2013
you will be able to apply for seed funding to develop and take your
activity into a school in early 2014.
The
Dragon’s Den pitching session will be held on Wednesday 8 January 2014. If your
idea is selected at the pitching session you will be matched up with a local
secondary school.
And you
will be supported along the way with drop-in surgeries, where you can talk
through the development of your ideas with experienced engaging
researchers.
What is the School-University Partnerships Initiative (SUPI)?
SUPI
is a three-year RCUK-funded project to create structured and strategic
mechanisms for HEIs to work in partnership with secondary schools and FE
colleges. This partnership working will support researchers’ direct engagement
with students and bring contemporary and inspirational research contexts into
formal and informal learning to enhance and enrich the curriculum.
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