Networks Newsletter – March 2020
Dear colleague,Welcome to the Networks Newsletter, our way to keep our member network committee members and representatives up to date with RSC activities, services and new initiatives.This month’s Newsletter contains:
- Upcoming Deadlines
- Upcoming Events
- Spotlight: Public engagement - know your audience!
- Communications from across the RSC
- Latest updates on our policy work
10 March
12 March
24 March
26 March
01 April
07 April
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Deadline for E-alerts going out on 19 March to additional networks
Deadline for E-alerts going out on 19 March
Deadline for E-alerts going out on 2 April to additional networks
Deadline for E-alerts going out on 2 April
Deadline for Local Section and Interest Group Top-Up Fund applications
Deadline for E-alerts going out on 16 April to additional networks
Deadline for E-alerts going out on 16 April |
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| Upcoming Events |
3-4 March
05 March
19 March
02 April 2020
16 April 2020
7-9 July
29-30 September |
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| Spotlight: Public engagement - know your audience! |
What is "public engagement"? What works? What doesn't?This month Hassun Zafar, our Public Engagement Officer, talks to us about the importance of knowing your audience when planning public engagement activities. This is the first in a series of articles to help you create, plan, and evaluate new ideas to interact with members of the public.Read the full article on the Networks Newsletter blog, and if you have any questions or suggestions for public engagement activities please let Hassun know!Read Hassun's article about knowing your audienceRead Hassun's first
| Communications from across the RSC |
Here are updates about events and activities from our Outreach, Careers, Events, International, and Research & Innovation teams, as well as the Chemists’ Community Fund and RSC Publishing.New expense form for member expensesWe've recently updated the form members and non-members use to claim expenses. You can download the form by clicking on the link below or from the Useful Forms and Documents page: www.rsc.org/FormsDocumentsDownload the new expense form here#RSCPoster Twitter Conference – starts 3 March, 12:00 UTCThe conference that anyone can attend!The #RSCPoster Twitter Conference is an annual event that has become a staple on many scientific community calendars. Held entirely online over 24 hours, the unique format removes the environmental and financial costs of attending a traditional conference, and helps scientific researchers share their work and network across disciplines, wherever they are in the world.
Last year, more than 3,000 researchers took part, and posters and conversations were seen by over 2 million people around the world. This year you can submit a poster in one of 12 subject areas, from analytical chemistry to engineering. Posters win prizes if chosen by the subject chairs.Search #RSCPoster on Twitter tomorrow and join in!Find your hashtag and get involved on 3 MarchMember Networks Conference 2020All committee Secretaries have received details of this year’s conference along with a request for the following information by 1 April 2020:
- The name of the delegate who has agreed to represent your committee at the conference.
- Any subjects you would like to discuss with relevant staff – events, legal, communications, etc.
- Any issues you would like to be raised during the Interest Group Forum, the Local Sections meeting or the Analytical Division Regions meeting.
We would like to highlight that the Grants for Carers and the Assistance Grants are available to support attendance at this event so please do bear this in mind when discussing availability to represent your committee.Chemists’ Community Fund WorkshopsThe Chemists’ Community Fund organise ‘Improve Your Understanding of Wellbeing and Resilience’ and ‘Retirement in Sight’ workshops around the UK for RSC members.
To find out more, or to book a place on one of these free workshops, please go to: rsc.li/ccfevents
Please do promote these workshops to anyone that you think would be interested in attending.
If you would like to host one of these workshops in your local section then please do get in touch with the Fund team on ccfund@rsc.org. International Conference on Chemistry EducationCape Town, South Africa, 13-17 July 2020The 26th IUPAC International Conference on Chemistry Education (ICCE 2020) is jointly organised by chemistry educators from the 4 local universities, with support from universities in South Africa. The conference will be organised around the theme of a 2020 vision of chemistry education and for the first time ever, there will be a Physical Sciences Teachers’ Day, on the 17th of July, as part of the conference. To support teachers without funding to attend this, we have provided sponsorship for bursaries through the ‘Sponsor a Teacher’ initiative to enable teachers to attend.The themes of the Congress can be found here and abstract submission is open until 16 March.Learn more on the Events DatabaseIntroducing Materials AdvancesA new gold open access journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Free to read and free to publish in for the first 2 years, the research in this journal will build on and complement the materials content already published across the Royal Society of Chemistry journal portfolio. Jointly led by JMC A, B & C editors-in-chief Anders Hagfeldt, (EPFL, Switzerland), Jeroen Cornelissen, (University of Twente, the Netherlands) and Natalie Stingelin, (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), our experienced JMC associate editors will also handle submissions to Materials Advances. This ensures a consistent approach and streamlining the assessment process for authors and reviewers.Read more about Materials Advances
| Latest updates on our policy work |
With a programme of activities spanning research funding, mobility of scientists, open access, chemicals regulation, teacher supply, curriculum and much more, our goal is to shape the development of policy relevant to the chemical sciences.New Global Talent visa openThe new Global Talent visa is now open, replacing the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa. The new visa route allows successful applicants to work in the UK and is granted for a period of up to five years at a time without a sponsor or entry requirements such as language tests and minimum salary thresholds.Learn more about the visa programme hereUpdated RSC position statement on Open Access and Plan S In 2018 a coalition of research funders, including UKRI and Wellcome Trust, expressed their commitment to Plan S, an approach to achieving Open Access. Informed by our roles as a learned society publisher and as a voice for the chemical sciences community, and drawing on evidence from our activities to amplify the voice of researchers, we developed a position statement on Plan S. The statement will inform our response to the UKRI Open Access Review Consultation that was launched recently.Read our position statement hereA Chemicals Strategy for a Sustainable Chemicals RevolutionThe RSC has published a new document ahead of Defra launching its consultation in the spring on a new Chemicals Strategy for the UK as part of the 25 year plan for the environment. We are advocating that the evolution of the strategy develops around four core pillars: education, innovation, circular economy and regulation. Read our sustainable chemicals strategy here
This Newsletter has been tailored to you, but the full version can be found on the Networks Newsletter blog. Please read the online version and get in touch with suggestions for what you would like included or feedback about what we've sent you!Kind regards,
The Networks Team
Fiona, Aurora and Debbie
