{"id":15687,"date":"2023-08-31T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=15687"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:25:51","slug":"esrc-impact-acceleration-account-iaa-advisory-group-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2023\/08\/31\/esrc-impact-acceleration-account-iaa-advisory-group-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Advisory Group Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking to appoint Newcastle University academic representatives to our <a href=\"https:\/\/newcastle.sharepoint.com\/hub\/hss\/Pages\/impact_iaa.aspx\">ESRC Impact Acceleration Account<\/a> (IAA) Advisory Group. \u00a0The ESRC IAA is a block grant of \u00a31.25M (2023-2028) from the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK\u2019s largest funder of economic, social, behavioural, and human data science. The overarching aim for the Newcastle University ESRC IAA is to mobilise our social science researchers, working in equal collaboration with our partners in a broad range of sectors, to\u00a0determine and drive future solutions to economic and societal challenges on the local, national, and global scale.<\/p>\n<p>Expressions of interest are welcome from academic colleagues of all career stages, from any discipline who have expertise in one or more of the IAA\u2019s strategic priorities \u2013 these are: ageing and vitality; data and digital; childhood and youth; sustainable futures; cities; rural enterprise and innovation; and electrification.\u00a0 For full details, please see the attached document. Expressions of interest can be submitted using the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fe%2FpMTaSHX44u&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAlison.Brown%40newcastle.ac.uk%7Cbdaf3384a29b482f2c9108dbaa26209f%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C638290852946775823%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EL6vuULuvc4YpZKUAPbo1DeOZKHjnJjcIv9etlEf19s%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Expression of Interest form<\/a>. Closing date: Friday 29 September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please email: <a href=\"mailto:esrciaa@newcastle.ac.uk\">esrciaa@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle University is committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status\/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of Reference<br \/>\n(a) To steer the University\u2019s ESRC IAA strategy, as outlined in our business plan to the ESRC.<\/p>\n<p>(b)To support the aims of the Newcastle ESRC IAA, which are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0To enable our social scientists to deliver high quality impact by enhancing their capacity in terms of knowledge, skills, relationships, and by releasing time for their work.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0To strengthen and ensure the sustainability of partnerships between our social science researchers and the communities and users with whom they work, including regional and<br \/>\nglobal VCSEs and business, and local and national government and agencies.<\/li>\n<li>To catalyse innovative projects that allow all members of our social science community (both researchers and partners) to work in partnership to deliver inclusive and sustainable<br \/>\nsocial and economic growth, regionally, nationally, and globally.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0To contribute to an inclusive equitable impact culture in which all members of our social science community are encouraged and able to develop impact from their research and<br \/>\npartnerships, regardless of demographics, career stage or subject area.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0To advance Newcastle University\u2019s commitment to social justice by ensuring our social science research is brought to bear on contemporary challenges, nationally and globally, and particularly in the North East of England \u2013 including (but not limited to) mental and physical health and wellbeing particular among older populations, poverty and housing, environmental justice, race and displacement, schooling and children\u2019s rights, an inclusive economy, and safer and healthier environments.<\/li>\n<li>To oversee the operation of the Newcastle University ESRC IAA, including the approval of funding decisions (made openly and transparently by a delegated sub-group of the ESRC IAA Advisory Group).<\/li>\n<li>To provide input to the ESRC IAA Capacity Building Programme which is an important vehicle for developing the impact knowledge, skills and ambition of our researchers and partners.<\/li>\n<li>To implement smaller working groups to develop specific work packages to be reviewed and agreed by the Advisory Group.<\/li>\n<li>To communicate activities, events, outcomes and good practice within units, faculties, organisations, sectors (as appropriate).<\/li>\n<li>To review Advisory Group terms and membership annually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking to appoint Newcastle University academic representatives to our ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Advisory Group. \u00a0The ESRC IAA is a block grant&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2023\/08\/31\/esrc-impact-acceleration-account-iaa-advisory-group-membership\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[755,135,202,754],"class_list":["post-15687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-advisory-group","tag-esrc","tag-esrc-iaa","tag-expression-of-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15688,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions\/15688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}