Target Audience: Postgraduate research students (PGRs) and early career research (ECR) staff from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Medicine & Health Sciences and Social Science disciplines.

Process:

Tutor moderated online learning over a 2 week period.
Approximately 90 minutes per day at a time of your choosing.

There will be a number of learning exercises delivered through discussion forums. Your contributions to the discussion forums are your means of 'assessment' and you should expect to post messages and respond to the posts of others. Guidance will be provided throughout by the course tutor.

You will receive a link to the course in Moodle a few days before the course starts and you must use this link the first time you log in. Please log in and post a message to the socialisation forum before the course commences if possible.

Description:

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has rapidly become an important mode of research and innovation governance and practice within the UK, the EU and beyond, aiming to more closely align science and technology with societal needs and values.

This course provides introductory training in RRI for research students and early career research staff. The course focuses on the relationship between science, innovation and society, considering the social, ethical, regulatory and cultural questions that emerge from scientific and technological innovation, and placing technical and scientific research in their wider social, economic and political context. Learners will develop the knowledge and skills to understand and think critically about approaches to RRI, and to implement RRI in their current and future research and innovation activities.

The course will enable PGRs and ECRs

• to consider the ways in which science and society mutually shape each other
• to understand their own and others’ responsibilities within existing and more recent approaches to research governance
• to grasp the predominant frameworks for RRI
• to learn the range of ways in which RRI has been and could be put into practice
• to comprehend the broader political and policy context at national, international and global levels
• to consider how RRI might develop in the future

Most importantly, learners are guided through activities to develop the competencies required to adopt an RRI approach in their own research projects and field of research.

Course Accessibility

The following table shows a summary of what is needed to participate in the course. 

If you feel you will experience any difficulties participating, please let us know via the ‘special requirements’ tab, providing as much information as possible. The special requirements tab can be completed when you book your place. Alternatively, you can contact us directly at ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk.

Access Moodle
Access the course 90 minutes each day over the 5 days
Participate in forum discussions on Moodle
Engage with online materials
Watch and listen to pre-recorded videos
Complete reflections document/ workbook (optional)
Undertake and submit an assessment (to be marked as attended)

Booking Conditions 

Our webinars/ online courses are very popular, especially in the current period and we are experiencing large volumes of people on our waiting lists.  

Please do let us know if you would like to cancel your place on this course so we can offer your place to another delegate. 

Please note, attendances for courses will be recorded. There are no training points associated with courses run by the Researcher Academy.

Pre-Requisites

Moodle Access Instructions 

This course is a tutor moderated online learning course run over a 2 week period.
You will need to commit approximately 90 minutes per day at a time of your choosing.

There will be a number of learning exercises delivered through discussion forums. Your contributions to the discussion forums are your means of 'assessment' and you should expect to post messages and respond to the posts of others. Guidance will be provided throughout by the course tutor.