Support

In collaboration with the Culture & Society RKEI and Health & Wellbeing RKEI, the Sustainability and Environment RKEI offers a range of research workshops, seminars and training events to support researchers at all career stages.  Topics covered include:

  • Producing a data management plan
  • Building (and maintaining) research networks
  • Open access and transformational agreements in publishing
  • What is KEF?
  • Planning for open access research and data
  • Developing interdisciplinary projects
  • Where to start with grant applications
  • What does ‘Impact’ mean and what does it look like?

In addition, SERKEI hosts regular ‘Shut Up & Write’ sessions which are open to all, and bi-monthly interdisciplinary ‘mingles’ where colleagues can network and explore speculative ideas for collaborations. 

Seed funding for small projects

SERKEI has seed funded six projects for research devised and led by undergraduate or postgraduate students, but developed in partnership with academic staff.  

Behavioural and physiological implications of transporting a critically endangered amphibian species, the Lake Oku clawed frog (Xe) housed at London Zoo to Whipsnade Zoo (student: Oliver Demartino, staff: Prof Tessa Smith and Dr Lottie Hosie; Biological Sciences)

The Community Composition of Benthic Marine Invertebrates in the Mangrove, Coral Reef and Seagrass habitats that fringe Eskapo Verde, the Philippines (student: Paula Bishop, staff: Dr Simon Oliver; Biological Sciences)

The community composition of teleosts in the habitats that fringe Eskapo Verde, in Cebu, the Philippines (student: Briony Gray, staff: Dr Simon Oliver; Biological Sciences)

Analysis of the microbiome of owls from pellets and mutes (student: Gabi Pikula, staff: Dr Bethan Stallwood and Dr Caitlin McQueen; Chester Medical School)

Analysis of the microbiome of preserved invertebrates from the Rea Brook (student: Kathryn Cox, staff: Dr Caitlin McQueen and Dr Bethan Stallwood; Chester Medical School)

Restoring the Vicarage’s ‘Secret Garden’ (student: Alison Newbold, staff: Prof Deborah Wynne; English)