{"id":4608,"date":"2022-11-09T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2022-11-09T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:15:33","slug":"dragons-den-training-to-tender-for-research-project-with-the-green-infrastructure-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/11\/09\/dragons-den-training-to-tender-for-research-project-with-the-green-infrastructure-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons Den: Training to tender for a Research Project with the Green Infrastructure Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

This interdisciplinary CEAS and KISS PhD training Workshop examined what it actually means to be a consultant based on a real-life call for tender – by Natural England, an Agency of DEFRA, to give PhD students the opportunity to explore drafting a project proposal in the form of a competitive game. <\/p>\n

Working as a consultant is a possible career for many research students once they have finished their postgraduate studies. So The Centre for European Agri-environmental Studies<\/a> (CEAS) and Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies<\/a> (KISS) co devised a PhD training workshop under the title \u2018Consultancy: a challenging job, a continuous adventure and discovery\u2019.<\/p>\n

‘Designed as a competitive game in which students have to answer a call for tender to evaluate the government framework for green infrastructure’ Professor Davidova<\/a> told us\u00a0‘The novelty being that the tender is not for an academic project but for applied interdisciplinary policy one, the type of projects delivered by consultancy companies and think tanks. Students were split into teams with members from different schools to know each other better and <\/span>gain experience of working<\/span> in interdisciplinary environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Students presented to the \u2018Panel\u2019 made up Davidova alongside Dr Ulrike Hotopp<\/a> and Dr Joseph Tzanopoulos<\/a> who opened the session and explained to students the rules of the game.<\/p>\n

Participants were asked to ‘Build your own team and make a proposal to the Tender Selection Panel. Enter into a competition akin to the types of competitions consultants face in their day to day job and experience the excitement and fascination of diving into a new topic.’<\/p>\n\n\t\t