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Newer Researchers Network - SRHE Prize for Newer Researchers
SRHE Prize for Newer Researchers
Each year the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) invites applications from newer researchers to enter a research proposal for a small scale project. All entries are reviewed by an expert panel and the successful SRHE Prize winner receives a number of benefits from the Society in addition to the prize money awarded to fund the project. Entry is open to all and not restricted to current SRHE Members.
2009 Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2009 SRHE Prize for Newer Researchers.
Karen and Alice both receive an award of £2,000 towards the funding of their winning project and will join the Society’s Research and Development Committee for a year from January 2010. In addition prize winners receive a years free membership of the Society, a years free subscription to the Society’s journals and have the benefit of an appointed mentor to help them with their project.
The SRHE Prize for Newer Researchers is jointly funded by the Society and by Taylor and Francis.
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Dr Karen Smith from the Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian
University
The award will support a research project entitled “Transforming academic practices through transnational teaching experiences”. |
It is a great honour for me to win the SHRE new researcher prize and it has come at an opportune time for me. I have recently been appointed a Research Fellow at Glasgow Caledonian University and now have higher education research as the centre of my role. I feel already that I am benefiting immensely from the support and SRHE mentor Tamsin Haggis and I am looking forward to greater involvement in SRHE, through my term on the Research and Development Committee.
My project is enabling me to further build my research interest in transnational education and is allowing me to explore my ideas in greater depth - something I would not have been able to do without dedicated funding. I am developing new methods of data collection and analysis. The particular focus of the BNIM approach has enhanced my skills of active listening, analysis and interpretation – these are all skills which can be transferred to subsequent research projects. The prize money has also enabled me to benefit from some dedicated, intense training which has broadened my approaches to qualitative research. |
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Alice Ann Kotlowski is a DPhil Researcher from the Social Sciences
Division at University of Oxford
The award will support a research project entitled “UK Research Ethics Regulations: a bureaucratic burden or an effective vehicle for ethical and quality research?” |
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