Kent Business School (KBS) is pleased to announce the success of a specialist training event for PhD students on research impact.<\/p>\n
The training event, \u2018Impact by Design: Training by Researchers for Researchers\u2019, was held in June in the KBS Sibson Building. PhD students and KBS supervisors received cutting-edge advice on how researchers can generate research impact from the beginning of their careers.<\/p>\n
The session was chaired by\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Ekaterini Panopoulou\u00a0<\/strong>(Reader in Finance),<\/strong>\u00a0KBS\u00a0REF coordinator and highlighted the importance of research impact for\u00a0PhD\u00a0students who pursue academic and non-academic careers.<\/p>\n Ms Jane Christie (KBS ESRC CASE studentship holder collaborating with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) delivered a presentation that followed specialist training on impact by Professor Mark Reed (Newcastle University) of Fast Track Impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jane said: \u2018As part of the training I introduced <\/em>PhD students, supervisors and professional staff to the advice, tools, techniques and other resources at fasttrackimpact.com, as well as other research impact resources at Kent. Following the presentation, we had a good discussion about expectations of <\/em>PhD students as they enter the job market, and attendees told me they found my presentation interesting and informative.’<\/em><\/p>\n ‘I am looking forward to repeating the presentation and talking about my research next year as part of the KBS <\/em>PhD course, CB9031, ‘Generating Theory and Presenting Research’, thanks to an invitation from Prof. Soo Hee Lee following the event.<\/em>‘<\/p>\n Congratulations to the event organisers from all at Kent Business School.<\/p>\n For further information about this event, please contact Dr.\u00a0Ekaterini at A.Panopoulou@kent.ac.uk<\/a>, or learn more about our PhD programmes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"