0Dear colleagues,
I hope you are all well. I think many of you know that alongside my university role I am seconded to the Science Council on a part time basis with a focus on technical development and recognition. As part of this, the Science Council have been in discussions with the BBSRC around technical staff and its fantastic to see the Research Councils taking an interest in the technical community. They have developed a survey to look at the careers of staff in technical roles.
This is a great opportunity to help to inform research council policy and I would be very grateful if you could share the survey link with your staff. It’s aimed at all technicians, experimental officers, core facility staff etc., not just those directly funded by BBSRC. It would be wonderful to help them achieve an informative and strong response rate (and it takes just 5 minutes!).
Details below.
Many thanks,
Kelly
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BBSRC is seeking your help in gathering both information and views from non-faculty researchers performing essential research and research support roles. These staff are involved in activities such as (but not restricted to):
· Operation and development of instrumentation
· Support for and development of software
· Support for data analysis, curation and management, including statistical and bioinformatics support
· Support for experimental methods, data collection, sample preparation.
The individuals employed in these positions have a diversity of contracts, and are frequently employed as experimental officers, technical staff, core facility staff and as permanent and temporary staff.
A recent report makes a number of observations regarding careers for research and research support staff, and accordingly BBSRC have initiated this survey to build up a better picture of the individuals employed in these roles. Despite their importance to research, we have little information on them as a group and the diversity of job titles, roles contracts and conditions make addressing them as a group extremely difficult. Your network will have many of these researchers as members, and I would be very grateful if you could circulate this survey to them.
The registration link is below:
https://app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/981424/5a41/
The survey will close on 9th November.
Kelly Vere BSc(Hons) MA RSci FHEA
Business and Education Engagement Manager
www.professionalregisters.org
Hodgkin Huxley House | 30 Farringdon Lane | London | EC1R 3AW
Tel: 020 3434 2023 | Email: k.vere@sciencecouncil.org
Website: www.sciencecouncil.org | www.futuremorph.org
Twitter: @KellyVere