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institutional over-professionalisation - the idea that a scientist is only a scientist, rather than someone who might also have their own artistic practices or interests - or that an artist is somehow constitutionally not interested in science. There's an easy win here - and I just noticed that Ian Head has a guitar behind him at his desk as proof of this! :-)

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lots of people have mentioned PhD studentships - facilitating funding for these. As a relatively new lecturer I still don' t know how to get funding for PhDs.

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lots of people have mentioned PhD studentships - facilitating funding for these. As a relatively new lecturer I still don' t know how to get funding for PhDs.

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How will a NUCORE  help me?

-       Offering opportunities for upskilling and development in terms of developing future research projects and bid writing.

-       Creating opportunities for networking and mentorship (important for me as an ECR).

-        Hearing about opportunities and getting a sense of what is possible/attainable, also where there are gaps or areas in which I could bring new ideas and innovation.

-       Replicating ‘corridor conversations’ which germinate cooperative projects (in as much as is possible in the land of Zoom, to counter the distance imposed by WFH in light of Covid – I think today’s meeting was valuable in itself, as a new joiner to the university, I’ve seen a lot of new faces already as part of this process).

What will be success for me?

-       Attaining funding, creating a more permanent role for myself.

-       Feeling confident that what I do (arts based and ethnographic research methods) has value to other colleagues across disciplines

-       seeing the arts and humanities represented within wider science / planning / engineering projects as part of the research process as well as outputs.

What will ensure more support?

-       Tangible benefits to participation (ie. benefits to PGRs and ECRs of the opportunity to be part of joint publishing?).

-       General celebratory, exciting, exploratory atmosphere!  Making the discussions and events enjoyable, for their own sake, which links into the discussion thread of how to keep such an endeavour ‘alive’ and not let it be crushed under the weight of its own bureaucratic aspects.

Barriers to entry for my peers.

-       Seniority/hierarchy.  I liked the focus in the breakout sessions on what ECRs could contribute and how they could lead.  I hope this is developed further!

Other thoughts

-       Concerned to escape/evade the process of solely forming teams to address ‘challenges’ in the sense of government or international development led agendas.  Although this is naturally important for funding etc, I’d like to contribute to creating space for more open ended forms of enquiry. I think this is a key benefit of arts based research, in that they can help to open up a wider field of enquiry or more imaginative scoping of research questions and possible directions (which may well turn out to yield instrumentally or practically beneficial results, but aren’t driven by the necessity to do so.

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Time and some way of identifying like minded individuals. A need to make inter / trans disciplinary connections. Where can we add value to each other's research?

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help me - mechanisms to develop projects
connections
bid writing skills
links interdisciplinary
co-creation of projects
exposure to different parts of uni, research and public outreach
Success
Embed interdiscipliniarity at outset of projects
network development
empowering people
understanding crossovers
get out of niche
bring junior people into grants
buy in from all at start of projects
support
learning how to write bids
community development
events - celebration of water
networks
sandpits
focused events - but not too many that it becomes too much

barriers to coming - awareness - not currently bumping into people in corridors at the moment

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(typed by AL the longest-serving NCL lag in the room ;-))

NUCoRE to help us engage with people more quickly. Forum to facilitate ID of individuals? Key is we need to know objectives of NUCoRE to entice people to contribute.  Biggest barrier will be time (FY).
Make space, help us talk to each other on more disparate matters to see common connections (RMck)
Need a purpose for meetings (recognising this is different to others sandpit preferences) (CB)
Sometimes people need a little nudge to get out of disciplinary 'boxes'.  NUCoRE could create almost a 'hand-holding structure' to help break doen barriers (SF)
Key barrier is 'institutionalised sense of over professionalism' and once we take away the institutional labels to allow space to highlight other "eclectic" and complex interests, synergies may make themselves apparent (BH)
Marine islands: "the sea brings people together" - should be the same culturally for water and waterways e.g. Tyne as an artery for communication (SF)  There was a Tyne from Source to Sea initiative a year or so back and we should build on this.
Spirituality of water (CB). Immersive (literally!) violin playing (BH)
If through participation in NUCoRE we become more familiar with colleague sand so when interdisciplinary calls come out we are readier, NUCoRE will be good.  Finding a balance between ways to engage are key (Zoom coffee sessions under current conditions?).  Water NUCoRE could be too big and amorphous to get over the issue of right 'point of entry'?  Might need some form of cluster organisation to make sense of the structure for in-points (NF)
We need time for meaningful co-creation in bids rather than 'tacking' people on towards the end of bid-writing (issue here perhaps with short length of time to submit bids) (CB)
As consumers we're on the end of a wonderful connected water spply system - something to explore here? (BH)

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working across disciplines to achieve practical impact to meet identified need

to be engaged with others outside my own school

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Some common themes - time to facilitate new collaborations, stimulate grant success, facilitate cross disciplinary interactions. Good to include all job families.

Interesting question about showcasing - yes, on one hand, NUCoREs are about telling a visibly leading narrative to the world about Water Research at Newcastle, but as Tom says, it is about doing proactive and future looking research and building on ambition.

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Success:
New ways of engaging people in water research, awareness, belonging around water

Being engaged with wider range of researchers - links

Show medium term successes e.g. grants applications, research projects, collaborations

Interdisciplinary research projects - active and interesting

Make more use of our international partners/links - unique challenges

How can we make NUCoREs a success? Good to integrate and bring people together but how do we take the next step? What are we trying to achieve?

Success about culture not 'me'

Support:

Dedicated academic time - facilitate 'doing' not just 'talking' or 'promoting'

Opportunity to links ECRs to be more aware of wider University initiatives

Improve research culture

Barriers:

Technicians being more involved (funding/opportunities)

Reinventing a previous centre/structure - sceptical as no direct funding

Are we just re-badging/showcasing current research and expertise?

Seeing/recognising wider applications of disciplinary skills and expertise

NUACT scheme does not align - individual vs wider priorities

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Collaborations in the environmental science
Collaborations in CFD
Better connection between science and engineering
Pooled analytical facilities
Need  more testbeds (and funding for test beds)
Time or help to get research going as a PI or co-PI
Multidisciplinary connection in water rights..
Phd studentships.. around art and water
More serendipity

Success
Time to do research
Help getting successful grants off the
Time time and more time
Joint programmes across the university

Barriers
Structures of the university
Time time and time and connection
Interdisciplinary students

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How will a NUCORE  help me?
Collaboration
Contacts
Help with getting interdisciplinary research funding.

What will be success for me?
Research grants.
sense of community.

What will ensure more support?
Barriers to entry for my peers.
Time

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How will NUCORE help me?
- collaborations: similar projects or similar systems
- helps us come together to tackle bigger challenges where it is appropriate
- in real problems our work is connected: will help by building a community to help improve our own disciplinary work as well as funding and opportunities
- expanding the conversations around water
- connections and networking : who to explore and share ideas with ?

What will be success?
- wins in collaborations
- more research income
- more PhD's
- more evidence of interdisciplinary activity
- a series of collaborative emerging that directly involve artists: the value that the arts bring to those kind of projects. The way artists understand the value of water and what that looks like
- collaboration across international campus
- momentum of work and NUCORE activity

What will ensure support?
- time
- time for leadership team to facilitate
- resources: web-presences, events
- support to leadership team as well as those involves : making people wanting to invest time
- co-supervision of PhD students
- scholarships ?
- stronger collaboration
- active members at every level

Barriers for entry
- time and communication
- already overcome the disciplinary barrier
- administrative burdens
- disciplines all having equal footings
- difference in facilities between campus e.g. between Singapore and Newcastle
- connection and communication between Newcastle and Singapore after reorganisation it is not so strong
- where's the buy-in when it comes to Singapore?
- cost
- adoption of technology
- stakeholders in projects
- communication (virtual/zoom/shared space)

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If there are colleagues who are interested in bringing together 'Computational Fluid Dynamics', 'Weather', 'Dispersion Modelling' and 'Data Analytics' , I am interested in working with them. If colleagues who have interests in similar areas. The purpose is to supervise joint PhD students where possible and write joint proposals in the longer term. I am a Chemical Engineer and a Mathematical Modeller; I teach Maths and Computing at UG and Programming/Systems Safety at PG. 

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If there are colleagues who are interested in bringing together 'Computational Fluid Dynamics', 'Weather', 'Dispersion Modelling' and 'Data Analytics' , I am interested in working with them. If colleagues who have interests in similar areas. The purpose is to supervise joint PhD students where possible and write joint proposals in the longer term. I am a Chemical Engineer and a Mathematical Modeller; I teach Maths and Computing at UG and Programming/Systems Safety at PG. 

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Pavan, Newcastle University in Singapore

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Share any thoughts you have on the Water NUCoRE's development 

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Share any thoughts you have on the Water NUCoRE's development 

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If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.

Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;

My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,

And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.

(P Larkin 6 April 1954 TWW)